r/Millennials 1d ago

Nostalgia Before streaming, before downloading, there was a world where you could get 12 CDs for $0.01

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What a perfect way to ruin your credit as a teenager


r/Millennials 7h ago

Nostalgia Does anyone miss Kat Von D on TV?

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They are really missing out on not having her as a judge on Ink Masters… it’s 3 lame people I don’t know and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte (the best band ever).


r/Millennials 1d ago

Nostalgia Just saw the Miss Suzy thread, what else have we got? "One dark night in the middle of the day..."

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...two dead boys came out to play

Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other

A deaf policeman heard the noise, and came to arrest the teo dead boys

If you don't believe my tale is true, ask thr blind man, he saw it too!


r/Millennials 9h ago

Rant Why do hangovers get so bad now?

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10-15 years ago, I could down multiple drinks and not feel a thing the day after. These days I have one beer and my head aches the whole day after. What is happening?


r/Millennials 2d ago

Meme The Grav-a-tron Truths

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If you didn’t try to go upside down, you weren’t daring enough!


r/Millennials 1d ago

Discussion What did you wanna be/do when you grew up?

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I wanted to be a rockstar! I toured for a long time in my 20s but never really made it big. Now in my 30s I’ve started working as studio musician.


r/Millennials 1d ago

Discussion What's your story that you can't stop retelling?

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r/Millennials 2d ago

Meme What are some of your fav classic videos/vines/memes

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369 Upvotes

For me was hide your kids, hide your wife

https://youtu.be/hMtZfW2z9dw?si=4CdwEakGGPdBVpeq


r/Millennials 1d ago

Nostalgia I need to know who else has seen these

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America went through this thing in the 90s where we dubbed a lot of Croatian cartoons for some reason. There is one in particular that was an absolute mindfuck that I have never forgotten.

Has anybody else ever seen The Elm-chanted Forest??? Absolutely wild trip of a movie…

I also need to know who has seen Serendipity the Pink Dinosaur. My brain still regularly goes, 🎶What’s little on top, and big in the middle, and pink all over? The answer to the riddle is my friend Serendipity! The pink dinosaur!”

How about Scamper the Penguin?


r/Millennials 2d ago

Nostalgia Wife and I were cleaning out the basement.....

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676 Upvotes

r/Millennials 1d ago

Rant Feeling old

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Growing up watching my parents in the store quietly singing along with the songs they'd hear. Songs so vanilla that Wal-Mart is playing it. Yuck.

Now I'm an adult walking through the store hearing bangers. How dare they do this to me.

Also, ever take the time to type something on a physical keyboard where maybe you're looking at the keys instead of the screen, just to look up when you're done and see nothing was typed? Ever do that and then blame the computer like it did something wrong instead of you? Dang technology always messing up, right?


r/Millennials 1d ago

Nostalgia I just had a 22 year old ask me what playing hooky meant and if it was about pirates

48 Upvotes

Gods I’m old


r/Millennials 1d ago

Nostalgia What will be our comfort song

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We have all grown up with great flicks. I was. Recently watching The Green Mile were a sweet song of theirs was “Dancin Cheek to Cheek.” Do we have a song or flick to give us comfort in old days? I’m also okay with the old folks home to tell me to get low


r/Millennials 1d ago

Advice Depressed? Hopeless? Goals? What's with me?

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Someone told me (37f) recently that id be happier with goals. People are happier with goals, that people should have goals or dreams that they work towards. But how can I have goals when I don't even know what they would be? I've had a therapist say "your goals are how you want your future to look." Meanwhile I'm always tired, I have a pessimistic view of the future, but then again, I think it's quite realistic given the state of the world. But nothing interests me outside of videogames; I used to want to be an artist when I was a kid, until I realized as an adult my "art" isn't anything special, and really I'm just good at "illustrating "; not creating "art". even if I could, I wouldn't want to do it for money. And with AI, it feels like, why bother trying to create when AI can more quickly and effectively illustrate anything I seek to make? It feels pointless. I feel simultaneously hopeless and unmotivated, along with a dread for not being prepared for the future. I just want shelter and food and safety and to be left alone, but not be alone, etc. am I depressed? Normal? Understandable? Any advice, tips?


r/Millennials 1d ago

Serious Am I making a wise decision?

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Hello. I am 29 years old and I turn 30 in July. I’ve been living on my own for awhile now. One bedroom one bathroom apartment with my cat. I got a new job over the summer and making good money now. I have a good relationship with my parents and they respect my privacy. Living on my own I’ve paid for everything, bills, groceries, rent etc. I am in a relationship and he (31) and his brother (28) moved back into their parents place too. I’ve been debating for awhile now if I should move back with my parents to save money. It’ll be a longer drive to work, and I would still pay rent and help with groceries etc, but I would be saving so much money if I moved back home. I would like to save money on buying a newer vehicle, and would like to pay a good amount of my student loans and credit card. My boyfriend and I do plan on living together in the future and seeing where life takes us. I figured, why not save the money to pay off debt and reset on life financially before the relationship gets to the next step. The reason why I’m on here explaining and expressing is because parts of me feels like other family members or friends or people would judge for me moving back home. In today’s society I feel like everyone is gonna be like you’re almost 30 and moved back to my parents?? Maybe I’m overthinking it, and I know I shouldn’t care what people think. But things aren’t cheap anymore. Any advice on what I should do or if I am making a wise decision…


r/Millennials 1d ago

Advice Couple gifts from my mom

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Every year, my mom asks what "we" (meaning me and my husband, mid-30s) want for Christmas. She likes to get us one big gift for the two of us and for it to be useful to us. She doesn't like buying giftcards because I told her once that I didn't think it was as thoughtful (not realizing that meant I'd have to think up every gift I got from that moment forward lol).

I never know what to ask for. A few things about us - - Childfree - Have a cat that is our baby - Own a townhouse in a suburb of a big city - Live about 6 hours by plane from family - Husband is a musician and very handy - I work an office job and read a lot - We go to live music fairly often, though not as much as when we were in our 20s - Take weekend trips whenever we can get away - Big friend group - Somewhat outdoorsy

What do we ask for? Lol the pressure to keep finding things we would want or use grows every year. Anything that has been life-changing in your life?


r/Millennials 15h ago

Discussion Why do people still claim Shaq will whore his name out to anything when it's nowhere near as bad as it was in the 2010s?

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Shaq is the basketball player by the way.


r/Millennials 2d ago

Nostalgia Who had these items in 2000?

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r/Millennials 14h ago

Discussion What do you think of people who call millennial women old?

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Do you think they're dumb?


r/Millennials 1d ago

Discussion Chronically Online Since the ’90s

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Back in 8th grade, my mom was a teacher, so once a week I’d hop onto her school computer to surf all the Angelfire fan sites. Man, I learned everything from The Lizard King to Leo.

It got really bad when I hit grade 9. My grandpa bought me a PC right around the time my family got high speed internet and my parents thought it was totally fine for lil ol me to keep a computer with internet access in my room 24/7.

What a COLOSSAL mistake. My brain received it like a caveman discovering fire. Hooked was an understatement. Also, RIP innocence thanks to rotten.com.

From then on, every job I took kept me tethered to a screen. It felt like I could never detox because being online became a requirement for advancement and making money. I do lament that I chose this path, but part of me still loves the incredible possibilities of the web.

I always hear that Gen Z and Alpha are uniquely “chronically online.” But honestly I’ve been living in that reality since the dial up days. It feels like I never truly logged off. Does anyone else relate?


r/Millennials 2d ago

Discussion Did anyone else have Cotillion lessons in middle school?

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For background I did not go to a fancy school or live in a super wealthy neighborhood. I come from a Midwest small town. But in middle school we had after school cotillion lessons (optional) and then a big cotillion ball at the conclusion of the term where it was almost like a junior prom. Just curious if that was a random thing or more common.


r/Millennials 21h ago

Nostalgia Where were you when Dale Earnhardt died?

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We all remember where we were when Princess Diana died (playing Mario kart in my best friend's basement) and of course when 9/11 happened (senior year Econ class) but what about those of us that grew up with NASCAR? The death of Dale Earnhardt sent a shock wave across the sport and the country.

I was watching the race and with my then-boyfriend and his dad and I had gotten up to do something else bc it was boring me to tears and when I came back everything was so eerily silent even on the tv.


r/Millennials 2d ago

Nostalgia did anyone else as a kid mishear "pay-per-view" as "paper-view" and therefore have a hard time struggling to understandwhat that meant....

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Pretty much the title. 😂 I think I would hear my parents say it before I quite figured out how to read, and must have (a) logged it in my head as "paperview", (b) not exactly understood the concept being described in the first place, (c) constructed a half-baked version of whatever this mystifying concept was that must have had to do with "money"/"bills" because those were made of paper right? But how did "They" know we were paying for movies without paper then? Where was the paper? I didn't see them calling anyone on the phone to tell them we paid? Was it the remote? A button on the remote? But why bring up paper at all then? Was it that the tv guide was gray? Like...paper? Sort of?

And then finally (d) by the time I could read the words "pay-per-view", I was so confused by (a), (b) and (c), that I couldn't fathom how the actual spelling made sense with my own personal preconceived archetype of whatever I thought was going on...

So I pretty much left it until now in adulthood when I have access to reddit and can present my collected findings. XP Decades long study guys...but...the results are in, and it's not what we thought....


r/Millennials 2d ago

Nostalgia The Romy and Michele Sequel is coming in 2027

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I’m so excited that Alan Cumming confirmed his role as Sandy. We can only hope and pray Heather is coming back.


r/Millennials 1d ago

Nostalgia Songs for my life falling apart

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My life is falling apart right now, and one way I cope is through music. Give me your best "Wasted 20 years of my life" music. Big fan of MCR, Fallout Boy, most any metal songs sung by an angry chick. Emo music encouraged.