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Keith's entire life savings bought earrings?!?!

posted 13 years ago by True_Love
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I love this movie. It's in my top 5 favorites of all time!

But there's still just one thing I don't get. We know Keith saved up enough money for his first year's tuition. I don't know what tuition was like in 1987, but let's say it was $10,000 - $15,000 for the first year (depending on which college he was going to attend). It seemed like Keith had been working and saving up money for a while... from the way Keith and his dad have spoken. Plus his interest growth added to his total savings.

So he spent all that money JUST to buy those earrings?!?! I wouldn't say a pair of diamond earrings equals today's YEARLY college tuition!

[–] thomas998 7 years ago

Was in a small private university in the mid 80's and the cost was about $320/credit hour... Full time was 15 hours each semester so tuition would have been a little under $10,000 a year... That was for a private university if he was going to a public university you can pretty much assume it would have been half that or even less depending on the state he was in.

Hard to say what diamond ear rings would have cost back then because something like that can vary wildly depending on lots of factors, size, quality of diamond, setting material, so hard to say how much they were supposed to have cost in dollar terms.

[–] Washingtonnative (2613) 5 years ago

He made the wisest investment, just my opinion anyway!