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How Much Prom Is Costing Parents In 2026 · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, spring break is now pretty much complete. Now our
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  Speaker 1: focus when it comes to school proms season one or
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  Speaker 1: six pointy seven light FM. Hello there, I'm Cubby. That's Nina.
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  Speaker 1: She's in for Christine one more day and then Christine's
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  Speaker 1: back tomorrow. But yeah, let's talk about prom here and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into our personal lives in a minute. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: do we have some overall prom stats?
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  Speaker 2: It's getting really expensive? Oh yeah, According to new analysis,
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  Speaker 2: going to the prom cost upwards of one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: per student. You add the clothes, the tickets, transportation, the hair,
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  Speaker 2: the photos. Of course women, the girls spend more than
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  Speaker 2: the boys, right, about four hundred bucks on outfits. Guys
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  Speaker 2: spend about two hundred thirty for tucks rentals. Yikes. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: prom attendant is actually down, and I would say that's why.
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  Speaker 2: So only seventy percent of kids go to prom. Now though,
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  Speaker 2: unless you're in a smaller town, more people go. Most
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  Speaker 2: people go as a romantic date, but twenty five go
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  Speaker 2: solo or with friends, ten percent go with a family member.
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  Speaker 1: Now, my prom was nineteen ninety oh, and the thought
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  Speaker 1: of going alone was like not even in the cards.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I feel like today you can handle it, but
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  Speaker 1: you had to have a date. I only went to
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  Speaker 1: one prom. Oh and how many did you go to?
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  Speaker 2: Too?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Hello, and I believe producer Kristen told us off
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  Speaker 1: the air she went to four. She went to four.
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  Speaker 1: Producer Kristen, Wow, okay, all right, but I remember my dad.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to rent a Limo so bad.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: My dad was like, the heck, you're not written a Limo.
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  Speaker 1: You're taking my car because I was driving a Ford Escort.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to take my Ford Escort. You know
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  Speaker 1: the ones where the seat belt would automatically strangle you.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a great look.
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  Speaker 1: That was my That was my car. But my dad
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  Speaker 1: had a jag. So he let me drive his car
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  Speaker 1: to pick up my prom date who had a broken leg,
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  Speaker 1: and we sat the entire time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh dear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. My my girlfriend at the time, her name was Heather.
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  Speaker 1: She was very popular. She was a cheerleader.
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  Speaker 2: Heather was a popular name back then, and every Heather
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  Speaker 2: was popular pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: She broke her leg a week before prom. Bird got
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  Speaker 1: around school that I.
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  Speaker 2: Might be dumping her, dumping her and candling.
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  Speaker 1: These people knew who I was too. I was on
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  Speaker 1: the radio by the way. And when I was seeing
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  Speaker 1: your in high.
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  Speaker 2: School, people will talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's I know, that's how I got a nickname. I
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  Speaker 1: was a baby, they called me Cubby, so anyhoot. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they were like, is Cubby going to not take Heather
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  Speaker 1: to the prom because she broke her leg? And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, no, I can't do that. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to go with her anyway, but we had
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  Speaker 1: no fun because she just sat at the at the
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  Speaker 1: table where we had dinner, and then when the dancing started,
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  Speaker 1: we just sat there.
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  Speaker 2: For they're tears people. No, No, were you guys drinking?
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  Speaker 1: Well no, no, we did go to a hotel room
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  Speaker 1: with other friends that everybody right, and we all just
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  Speaker 1: did nothing but drink. Yeah. Sure, but that was.
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  Speaker 2: A long time ago, you know, you remind me. I
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  Speaker 2: actually this second prom, I went to my friend Karen.
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  Speaker 2: Her dad would not let her drive. He had like
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  Speaker 2: giant Mercedes, but he let me drive it. And so
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  Speaker 2: I drove this remember like sixteen Candles where the like
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  Speaker 2: the Rolls Royce. It was like that I drove it.
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  Speaker 2: I was so nervous driving this thing somebody else's car.
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  Speaker 2: Why would they let me do that? But I drove
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  Speaker 2: the car, that particular car.
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  Speaker 1: To the prom, and you went to You said two promps.
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  Speaker 2: I went to two promps. The first one I went
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  Speaker 2: with my my boyfriend was a senior. I was a junior,
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  Speaker 2: so it was his senior prom. And the next year,
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  Speaker 2: long story very short, my friends and I all decided
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  Speaker 2: we were going to take guy friends, not boyfriends, so
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  Speaker 2: we all got guy friends to go, and then like
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  Speaker 2: three days before prom, they all decided we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: real dates and my friend dropped out, so I went alone.
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  Speaker 2: I still had a great time. By the way, this
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  Speaker 2: was the year. It was eighty nine, eighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Because I got held back in fourth grade. That's a
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  Speaker 1: whole nother story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but so I did go. I went alone over here. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I love that story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a year behind. I should have graduated
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  Speaker 1: night nine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now that I know you, that makes sense. Not
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  Speaker 2: not that you're not smart, but you have like like
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  Speaker 2: you're very You're very like Joky at all. Why don't
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  Speaker 2: you no, no, no, Well, I also just saw something
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  Speaker 2: your son did on a phone, which, oh you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my son's very much like me a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all. Yeah, Yeah, they just needed to you know.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, before we go to break full disclosure,
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  Speaker 1: since we're having a therapy session about me being held
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  Speaker 1: back in fourth grade, so I had the grades to
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  Speaker 1: go to fifth grade, I was fine, you still tell
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  Speaker 1: my teachers convinced my parents, Hey, it can't hurt if
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  Speaker 1: you hold him back one more year because my age
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  Speaker 1: at the time, I was a little early anyway, so like,
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  Speaker 1: it can't hurt to repeat fourth grade. Then he'll really
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  Speaker 1: be on top of it.
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  Speaker 2: What did your parents tell you? They just like having
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  Speaker 2: you around.
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  Speaker 1: All I remember is being sad about all my friends
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  Speaker 1: going on and mew. I mean, but I got straight
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  Speaker 1: a's the next year because I read that book. I
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  Speaker 1: read that book. I did that math problem.
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  Speaker 2: I did that so I was on fire my second
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  Speaker 2: fourth grade probably made you feel good about yourself, right,
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  Speaker 2: Well I did, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And actually it did get me going on a better path. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fifth and sixth grade.
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  Speaker 2: Talking to a lot of boys. Man, they just you know,
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  Speaker 2: like in my family, a lot of boys got held back.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: All the women are smart. What do you want to do?
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  Speaker 1: Coming up? We'll see how smart you are. We have
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  Speaker 1: a trivia battle. Oh nice, and Shakira concert tickets up
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  Speaker 1: for grabs, Coming up here atlant FM