I have a 30th year coming up in a few weeks. I believe I’ll blow it off. They’re doing it as a dry picnic. Fuck that.
Missed the edit window. I wanted to add to my post:
After reading the OP again, I wanted to also say I’m much, much less nostalgic than I used to be. While I had a lot of fun in HS, and generally enjoyed it (I wasn’t popular, but there were 5-6 people I hung out with fairly exclusively, and kept up with them over the years), I don’t find myself wanting to relive those days. I spent too much of my life living in the past (until the last 10 years or so, when I got sober and stayed that way), and it doesn’t matter whether I enjoyed it or not, that’s not my life anymore. I don’t live in the past, and I don’t particularly want to revisit it. Sometimes it’s okay, but not with the people at my HS reunion. I’d prefer to live in the present and look ahead, not back.
I was a complete non-entity outcast in high school so attending a reunion would have no meaning for me just bad memories. It is best forgotten.
I went to my 10 year reunion. It was very depressing.
I was only close friends with 3 people in high school. I had stayed in touch with two of them during the 10-year period. I looked forward to seeing some of the other, more casual acquaintances and finding out what had happened to them. During that 10 years, I had attended college, moved to the city and finished college, and became an engineer.
There were about 60 people in our graduating class. Only about 20 of them showed up for the reunion. I found out later that some of the less popular ones had not even been invited. The most depressing part was, that of the dozen or so that I visited with, to a person, they had the same job they had when I left seven years earlier. They lived in the same places. All of the “high school sweethearts” that got married right after graduation were all divorced. Some had even swapped spouses. Only four had attempted college and only two had graduated.
During that same 1o years, I had experienced a lot and learned a lot and was looking forward to more adventures. They were looking forward to the next hunting season. I felt really, really sorry for them. I couldn’t even bring myself to share my stories with them. My two close friends and I left early with our spouses and went swimming.
No one has tried to organize any more reunions that I’m aware of. It will be 30 years next year. If they try to have one, I’ll skip it.
I liked high school fine; I had some friends, and no particular enemies, but I’m not good at keeping in touch with people, and have almost zero interest in any reunions (our 25th would have been in 2009 - I have no idea if there was one or not). I got in touch with one old friend on Facebook, and he seemed completely uninterested in re-connecting even though we had been good friends in high school, so I dropped that idea. Eh, life goes on.
My 15th is this year (I suppose; I haven’t heard whether a reunion has been organized or not). I didn’t bother with the first two; I doubt I’ll go to this one. I’m just not that interested, I guess - the people I wanted to keep track of, I kept track of.
I haven’t been to a reunion yet and was never very interested, but Facebook has sparked my interest a bit (including a couple of enjoyable in-person one-on-one reunions in my current city) and I find myself unreasonably enthusiastic about my 25th, to be held next month.
I have mixed feelings about going to a high school reunion. On the one hand, I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished so far. I’ve already fulfilled all my childhood goals (when I grow up, I want to be____) and some goals I didn’t even know I had.
On the other, during the high school reunion I went to, people still tended to split up into the same cliques they always did. Also, if I really wanted to keep up with those people, I would’ve been in contact with them before a reunion.
This pretty much describes my attitute. I didn’t hate high school at all and was by no means a social outcast. I just figured I was marking time until college and the rest of my life. I did go to my 10th because my wife was incredibly curious about the people I grew up with. I had a really good time catching up with old acquaintances and rehashing common memories. My wife had a wonderful time , too, because she is very gregarious.
Then we all went back to our own lives, as it should be. It was a fun way to spend an evening but certainly not life-changing.
I don’t use social networking to keep in touch with people I went to high school with because I probably wouldn’t be friends with them now. The fact we shared air for four years doesn’t really mean that much.
I occasionally speak to one person from my graduating class, and that’s perfectly enough as far as I’m concerned. The school I graduated from was small (class of 31) and is now closed. Reunions don’t happen often, and when they do, rather than being by year, it’s for all alumni, except for those two girls who got kicked out when they were found to be pregnant. Facebook reveals that the majority of the people I knew are now milquetoast suburbanite right winger evangelicals, just like their parents were when we were in school together. I didn’t have much in common with them in the 80s, and less so now. So no, no reunions for me. Now that I’m not forced to be with these people who I have no use for on a regular basis, why would I do so voluntarily?
We had a reunion at nine anna half years. Honestly, very little had changed, except for me - I’d left home, joined the Navy, become an engineer, bought my first house… The few people I would have liked to have seen didn’t attend. I was never interested in attending any more, which was fine, because I never found out about any others till after the fact.
I take it none of us here who’ve gone to our reunions had the type broadcast on the riveting documentary about the subject on TVLand? 
I enjoyed both my 5 and 10 year reunion. Like everyone else, I probably hated high school and wanted to get out as much as anyone. But I also had a lot of good times and there really isn’t anything that stands out in my mind as being particularly traumatic. I guess I just don’t harbor any sort of bitterness towards high school.
Never been to a reunion . . . and the next one, in 3 years, is the 50th!!!
I went to my 10th. That was enough for me. The people I hung with back then didn’t attend. The “mean girls” were there in full force, no longer mean but snooty as ever. They had no idea how their actions back then affected me (I know this because someone else brought up the topic).
Haven’t been to one since.
According to the alumni magazine, only one person in my class attended our 30th. Another class “adopted” him for the photograph.
I generally liked & was liked by my high school classmates. I was fat, religious & conservative but I was also funny, easy-going & accepting of everyone- totally opposite of how I am now, of course! 
And I’m local. So I’ve always enjoy my high school reunions. 30th is coming up this Fall & I am afraid people are looking at me 
to plan it! Fortunately, the Classes of 78-79 are having a “Better Late Than Never” one & I may just ask them about our class joining in.
College reunions- I’m iffier about- 5 & 15-yr were meh; 10 & 20 were blasts; 25 yr was a luncheon that I’d paid for, worked the night before, came home & went to sleep & forgot about till the next week! AND IT WAS JUST A 20 MINUTE DRIVE! Oy!
30th I plan to make, however!
Why I’m iffy about college reunions… At college reunions, all my classmates are definitely more successful than I am. They have great stories about their lives. I do not. With my high school classmates, my chances even out.
Didn’t go to the 10th or 20th. I couldn’t work up the energy to care enough to drive an hour and a half to go. I’m not the least bit bitter. It just seems so boring. My group hires some company to put the whole thing together. It’s a semi-formal dinner dance on a Saturday night that costs some modest fee and a free potluck picnic at a park with the kids on Sunday. My graduating class was something like 800 kids and I didn’t know most of them. The 30th is in two years. I don’t think I’ll be going to that one either.
I never think about them until I get the invitation, but I’ve had fun at the ones I’ve gone to. I had a ton of fun in high school
I went to my first and enjoyed it well enough. Then my family moved and I guess they lost me. When the 50th was coming up, I searched the school’s alumni site and while a number of classes had posted their reunions, mine didn’t. I found out accidentally that they were having one, but only certain people got invited. I made enough noise to wangle an invitation, but when I saw the price ($225 per person, so $450 if I brought my wife), I said FTS and have not heard from them since (it would be 56 this year). I have had no contact with any HS classmate in a number of years.
Mr. A’s reunion this coming October should be a blast. I love his friends.
I get the notices for my reunions but the people I’d like to see are always the ones who show up on that list of people they can’t seem to locate. The 1 friend I have from HS wasn’t in my graduating class, so she wouldn’t be at my reunion, and the others have disappeared somewhere.
I’m just not that interested in the rest of them. It’s not a teenaged grudge, it’s more a case of nothing in common then, far less in common now. I went to HS in a very conservative bible belt community and moved to California as an adult.
Partying with the fundies isn’t my idea of a good time, and I truly cannot imagine what we’d talk about or where we’d find common ground.