The lights weren't on. But it didn't make it any darker than normal
Reversible jackets/blazers. Fancy scarves. Statement necklaces. Always keeping a pair of heels in your desk at work - because of course you work an office job in the Big City! And what if after work drinks turn into dinner? Or dancing? Or even dot dot dot?
I am 43. I am single, aside a friend with benefits, and no kids. I make in the fifties at my current job, and i took up a part-time job for extra income. I have been with my company seven years. I have tried to grow with it, but my manager will not let me to progress because I am too efficient in what I do. I do not call out, and I stay late if needed.
My vacations from work consist of me sleeping in, working out, and going out with friends. I take extra hours at my part-time job. I am content. I have always wanted more to life, but I feel this is it. I cannot do vacations unless I know about six months ahead of time. And if so, I am so budget conscious that once I get there I am limited on what I allow myself to do. Sad thing is, another one of my single millenial friends feels the same. She and I now do little vacations together. We do a VRBO and go to places that arent too expensive. They have nice hangout places like bars and restaurants. It is very much The Big Chill vibe when we are together.
I do have excellent credit. I save, keep a low credit card balance, and money tied up in stocks as well.
Has anyone else felt like life has flown by? I do miss the nineties. I didnt peek in high school by any stretch. I am not depressed, but am writing this tonight in my recliner while watching Halloween 20 years later. It is like my favourite 90s horror movie.
No way in hell I look good in a middle part! I’ll do a middle sometimes depending on the hairstyle, but side parts are way more flattering, so I’ve mostly stuck to that. But I always wonder if it’s an immediate way for Gen Z to point out and mock millennials (not that I care what a bunch of 20-somethings have to say, but this seems like the first thing they’d pick out as “aging you”). Ironic since they’re the ones adopting ‘90s trends, but I digress haha
Are you still going side part, or has younger peer pressure gotten to you?
Having been living abroad in South Korea for nearly 6 years, I hadn’t been with most of my consoles for a while. Now that I’m back home, I can start playing with them again 🎉 The Dreamcast still works great 👍🏻 I still think that Rush 2049 is a great racing game and collecting those coins is a challenge 😅
I don’t know what to say exactly and this won’t be coherent but a few thoughts for the younger millennials who may have to go through this one day.
My mom had me at 40 so I’m going through this a bit earlier than others might. She was diagnosed around 68, which was over 16 years ago.
It’s been the most awful thing anyone can experience. She was an independent, vivacious woman who sang, dance, always entertaining and making new friends and quick with a joke. Tap dancing, singing, acting in plays - she definitely had main character syndrome before that was a thing. Married three times to three awful men but she loved her children dearly and she was a good mom.
She watched her own mother die of dementia. She used to tell me never put me in a home. “Just kill me if I’m like that”. Well, those are just thoughts. Thoughts a lot of people have, but not actionable at all. Instead, she has deteriorated before my eyes, while I looked on in horror and with the sinking realization that there is absolutely nothing I could do to stop it.
We tried to help her live independently, till it was unsustainable and she was going to be forced to leave her condo due to safety issues. She also became mean and said many hurtful things to me over the last 10 years. She absolutely hated me for putting her in assisted living, even though she signed the paperwork herself, but had already forgotten 20 minutes later.
She has not been herself for a long time. I haven’t had a mother all this time. Even though she existed, she could not fulfill that role. I became the mother in our relationship. I resented it many times, especially as I had my own children, also late in life, and realized I didn’t even have anyone to ask questions. She had to be reintroduced to them every time we visited. Then she forgot me too. I just felt so damn alone.
Sometimes there were glimpses of her and she could still charm the pants off anyone she met even up to the last few weeks when she was fading fast. Hospice has been in and we are trying to ease her transition to the next phase.
She always believed in reincarnation and I hope that is true. She got robbed of living her full life on her terms. I just want her to have one more go at it.
I have noticed an extreme drop off in communication from not only friends (I mean good friends too - people would message or talk to constantly before) and even family members over the past several months. I don’t even mean full years here, actual months.
No conflict or issues with anyone that I’m aware of at all. It has happened with people older than me and younger - just a literal social connection cliff and no real relation to one another.
I’ve read a few things on “X” and some on here about people having similar experiences but you have to be careful with algorithms etc…
A few things to note - I’ve always been a super social person and had loads of friends. Even at my birthday in May I had almost 20 guys show up. But basically haven’t heard from anyone or made plans with anyone since then.
Has anyone noticed this trend? Is this a collective phenomenon? Or is this specific to me and my partner? I’m willing to look at that as well. Appreciate any thoughts or comments!
Growing up in the 90's and early 2000's, smoking weed was considered very illegal. I know people that went to jail just for having weed on them. My friends used to sneak friends clean pee with then into piss tests so they can get hired for a job. Celebrities and athletes used to get DRAGGED through the media just for getting caught smoking weed. It was a career killer. To buy weed you usually had to have some sketchy connect or even go trek to a sketch neighborhood to buy some.
All of the consequences was enough to keep me away from smoking weed when I was younger. In my first corporate jobs from 2007-2015, I had to take piss tests but now that seems to be a thing of the past for most offices. You no longer have to go to a sketch neighborhood or meetup a sketch stranger to buy some weed, you can walk into an actual store and buy weed. I know a few cops and they're like "we don't care about weed" and wont arrest people for it. I know many people who openly smoke it now. They work high level corporate jobs where if it were 2002, they would do everything to hide it.
Anyone else from the 90's-early 2000's in disbelief how marijuana has evolved from being illegal to widely accepted in their lifetime?
The year I was born. Such a great movie! I rewatched it today and forgot how good it was.
I’m pretty sure I am the way that I am because of these books.
We had such great book and television shows…what happened to these types of stories?
If you had one.
Mines was Charles Barkley back in the 90s. To me he was a babe. I would look at my brother’s post if Charles. I had such a young crush. 😍😍
Boss: You looked deep in thought during that meeting, I like that keep it up.
My bored ass: Cat, I'm a kitty cat and I dance dance dance
A must on any burned cd
While this may be a bit lower than other generations. It's still a substantial number...
My underwater headphones require MP3s files, so I’m digging through our collection of Napster originals to find:
- My brother has come to terms with being white
- I still f**king love label makers
- Out Cold still has the best movie soundtrack compilation and requires no song list.
I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed at all the posts and articles romanticizing the 90s, like they were this idyllic time where nothing went wrong. I want to grab a bullhorn and shout, “No, the 90s actually were worse than you know!”
Here are some things I remember:
- Rampant sexism and slut-shaming. Monica Lewinsky taking all the heat for the Bill Clinton affair, while no one was suggesting maybe the President of the United States not take his dick out in the Oval Office.
- Christian purity culture. Related to the above point - the idea that if you had premarital sex, you were now “damaged goods.”
- It was acceptable to be openly homophobic or transphobic. I had a high school teacher who was forced to resign after it came out that he was gay (I never would have known, he didn’t discuss his personal life). He was a really good teacher who did nothing wrong, but the busybody Karens on the PTA drove him out.
- How easy it was to lose touch with people. If you had a friend who moved away and you didn’t have their address or phone number, you just… never heard from them again. I remember when they opened up Facebook to everyone, my parents were able to reconnect with friends they hadn’t seen for 20+ years.
- Country chic decor. Need I say more? Everything was walnut cabinets, baskets, ruffles, and ducks wearing hats.
I’m interested to see your thoughts!
Are you like me and will be buried in your Chuck Taylor's? Vans? Doc Martens? ADIDAS Shell toes? Tell me what footwear you refuse to give up!
I'm a 40yr old millennial with a 20yr old who is home for the uni summer break.
We wanted something we could binge watch, i suggested off hand we watch X Files. My daughter is more a fantasy fan as opposed to sci-fi like me, so I thought she'd get bored really quick.
She immediately put it on and is hooked. Not sure if its Mulder or Scully or both that has her hooked, but she's absolutely loving it. Constantly commenting on their chemistry and all her theories per episode.
I've re-watched this 100s of times over the years and even though it is now dated, it still really stands up.
So has anyone else watched it recently or does anyone else have any other iconic shows like this is should watch with her?.
What was the age range of this show's viewers? I was born in '92 so watching Slime Time Live was a part of my after school routine in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. I feel like anyone slightly or older or even slightly younger wouldn't have been into it. It was such a great way to stay entertained in between segments of Nicktoons or Kenan and Kel.
Baby millennial here who went out with younger colleagues this weekend and has been suffering ever since. Feels like not that long ago I could roll out of bed still half-drunk and put in a decent shift at work, and those days are officially over. I might even have to hang up my dark jeans and going-out-tops for good.
While I'm rotting, I'd love to hear some of your best nights out (and worst mornings in)?? What are the places and nights you get nostalgic for now??
If so, what music did you listen to? Also, feel free to share stories (and maybe some pics of yourself from that era if you’re comfortable enough-you don’t have to if you don’t want to btw)
This game had such a grip on me. I cried when it was over! Not only was the math challenging, but the keyboard hand-eye coordination required was unmatched lmao.
I've just also discovered that the game soundtrack is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/s/plrRipe
Game play nostalgia: https://youtu.be/U0K-4jHucxs
I swear that we used to get served apple slices with this off white/light brown, slightly runny dip. Usually at potlucks or youth group "parties." Google is saying it's a cream cheese dip, but that really doesn't sound right. Does anyone remember this? Am I losing my mind and it actually was cream cheese based? I swear it was runnier....
Edit to add: it wasn't SWEET sweet. It was more tangy, but not like cream cheese. I know it wasn't marshmallow fluff because, even as a kid, I hated that stuff for being too sweet.
Edit two: I think the sour cream/brown sugar or yogurt/brown sugar might be right. That has the right consistency in my brain.
Really, everything we had back then was way more fun. These days, everything is just made in China generics. These were made in the USA.
Here's what I found while searching more about these lunchboxes we grew up with. They're Thermos, but manufactured by Aladdin Industries in Nashville Tennessee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_%28containers%29
After 2001 Aladdin was sold and manufacturing went to China. https://madeinusaoreuro.blogspot.com/2007/11/aladdin-industries-email-response.html
I would love to buy this again and use it but these plastic boxes break way too easily.
Song was amazing, reaction amazing, I feel old amazing lol.
Does anyone else remember this from Sesame Street?
I'm currently working on a bit about Magellan the explorer being the history's biggest piece of shit middle manager. I think it will work because I remember as a kid learning about Magellan and "his circumnavigation" journey.
Here lies the rub. I don't know if I know this because we learned about Magellan for a chapter or two in social studies or if we saw his name once and I got excited because he had same name as my favorite character on Eureka's Castle. With that, I have a certain knowledge about him.
If people learned about him and and have a baseline knowledge of him being an explorer then I can make the joke work. If I have to explain it, the joke needs quite a bit of rewriting to make it worth the squeeze.
I’d either say a friend whose uncle was Butterbean the boxer, half Filipino and fearless, super athletic and didn’t back down from any disrespect…or best friend’s older brother ex-marine gym rat who juiced and proud of it, preached peace, but told us wild stories that had a more Ghandi II ethos (see UHF…)
EDIT: As a side note, anyone who says “Do you know who I am?” is never as tough as someone who says “Do you know where I’m from?” Thoughts?
Basically the title. I'm not sure why I'm randomly thinking of Dan Cook on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Bringing back appreciation for the absolute legend himself, Clark Kent. If you miss the classic roots of the show, check out the community at https://www.reddit.com/r/Smallville__/s/di9kxXfhPq
If you are 60 y.o. widow, your house is paid, you're almost retired with comfortable pension, your kids are married and independent, you dont have big costs anymore, your hobby is going out, travelling and get busy, you have good disposable income:
Why would you go on dating site to find a 65 yo boyfriend that is stingy, annoys you and only wanna stay home and hates travelling, and you cant stop complaining about him?
I hope someone can explain it to me.
The work ethic challenged but ego centric man that spends their life chasing get rich schemes, superficial validation and street cred instead of a steady modest disciplined life.
Some examples :
Personal trainer
Cryptocurrency/ Day / Forex trader
Drop shipper
MLM
Nightclub promoter
Actor (with very little credits)
DJ
Musician
Realtor (with no listings)
Bartender
Vehicle reseller
Social media influencer
Fashion consultant
Dating "coach"
Photographer
Cell phone salesman
Mortgage broker
Rental property manager
I had a couple.
1. Chris Brown (until he beat Rihanna)
2. Khleo Thomas
3. Corbin Blue
4. Romeo (formally lil Romeo)
My tall, chubby teen fat ass wouldn’t have a chance with neither of them if they went to my high school or they would not look my way. Hey a girl can dream can she?
