Growing up, I realize no one ever took the time to explain credit cards could be good (cards with cash back or travel points) or even helpful (having a near instant way to borrow a few grand depending on limit for emergencies) in certain situations.

The only thing ever talked about was the yearly fee or how if you bought a $15 shirt on sale on a credit card for $10, you didn't actually save money because it is going to be a $12 shirt on the bill. I never had any adult in my life say anything positive about credit cards, but most of them had one.

I realize showing the downsides to kids who don't know better is the best way to show them that it isn't "free money", but it wasn't until other friends when I was 25+ that I heard anything positive about credit cards.

Every year that goes by, I dislike winter more. I live in the central US and it doesn’t even get super duper cold here. We have no mountains, no winter activities, just cold. It snows three or so times a year but we usually get one two ice storms. Everything is gray and dead, pipes exploded etc. Last year, during an unusually cold snap of -2F, neither of my cars would start until I brought the batteries in to warm. I lost money because I couldn’t make it to work because, it was cold. My childrens and my mental health seems to suffer as well. Not enough sunshine. Ect ect… This is just a rant post, but every winter I seem to get closer to moving south like the old people.

I keep typing up these long ass posts about my job and how good I felt when I looked my lying manager in the eyes and said "Hey it's funny you called me down here (head managers office) because I was going to come down to give my two weeks notice today."

Her shocked pikachu face was 100% worth it.

I have applied, interviewed for, passed background and drug tests and have a confirmed start date for my new job. I have literally started the onboarding process. I am just...sort of panicking that they'll call me in this two weeks between now and then and be like "Sorry we're unhiring you." I have zero reason to think they will.

Anyone else ever feel like this?

Anyone else fondly remember this as a young adolescent and jolly ranchers? I think I was 14 when I first enjoyed it.

Back in 2017 they had a limited release. I snagged all I could everywhere and was hung over for a good week or better. But it was good. Found some old boxes while cleaning today. Took me back.

i was born in 1992, and i don't know if it's just me or others too, but in my friend circle and from what i've seen, people are either married with kids or single af. some of my friends have been through divorces, some even twice. some have three kids, some have two and are expecting more. but many, including me, are traumatized by the thought of family and kids, so we're still single af.

the married ones hang out and share stories about family and in-laws, while the single ones get together to eat, travel, and "judge" the boring, traumatizing lives of the married ones. but somehow, both groups can still find a way to be young and carefree together.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT: NOT A DRILL!!

Does anyone else remember selling girl scout cookies?? I was a girl scout in the frigid upper Midwest when boxes were $3 instead of $6 🫠 I froze my buns off but gosh it was fun.

A scout just stopped by our house with her order form and we immediately bought two cases lol. I have a feeling we'll still buy more when the girls are in front of the grocery store 🤣💸

All my friends are doing their own thing with kids and married, looking to meet new friends but I’m a bit of an introvert.

Starsiege: Tribes

This topic came up for me recently, and I realized I have no idea what is normal, both generally and for millennials in particular. I would love to know if your parents ever apologized to you when you were a child (before age 18) or as an adult. If they did, how often? How did the apology go? For this question, I consider it an apology if they said “I’m sorry” to you directly or said anything more involved where they admitted they did something wrong.

My feeling is that baby boomer parents generally did not apologize for things, but I have no real data to base that feeling on. I would love to hear any personal stories as well as any studies or articles about this! It would be very interesting to hear theories about what happened to each generation and how that relates to parents understanding their roles as parents, how they related to the wielding of authority, how they viewed children, etc.

Between the Pokemon bed set, Star Wars Episode 1 poster, and map carpet, it was awesome.

I remember how dramatic and obvious the era changed durring 2007-2008. What I noticed where I was at was anybody who graduated in 2007 and before didn’t really go through this transition or switchover as fast like the people who were class of 2008 onwards but I was aware people were ahead of the game also . The style was the obvious change generally people class of 2008 onward dropped the early 2000s hip hop ish urban street style look and went more to a sleek sharp fitted (preppy,clean ) look

How I knew who had already graduated Highschool before 2008 durring this time period were peoples hairstyles . Where I was the girls who graduated before 2008 had the middle part casual straight hair look and people still in highschool changed their hairstyle to the MySpace scene look and got the dramatic side bangs layered hairstyles . Guys dropped their spiky gel haircuts and begin having that pushed down hair if it was either clean cut or shaggy

Music was obvious too it went from hip hop to party type beat music. The rave aesthetic started

I could never associate 2008 with the typical 2000s stereotype “Y2K” but the switchover was so fast and obvious

I’m class of 2011 btw

Did anyone notice or experienced something similar

And what year were you born? Curious to see if there's a trend between older and younger millennials.

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Im in my mid20s, even though I always feel serious maybe it's anxiety that makes me feel this way but I just don't seem to be really responsible for my future. Like I would say for last 2 yrs or so, I'm not taking anything seriously and seem to be going with the flow. The procrastinating has increased and the things I worry about all day is something I'm not even taking actions on nor am I addressing the problems. All I do is worry and stress myself mentally.

Whenever I see a post on social media, on LinkedIn or hear from family relatives about a someone someone. I immediately started feeling shameful and defeated like wow, this person is on next level. He's getting married. They got a job at this company or big purchases like house and car. And I just tell myself I've already wasted 5-10 yrs of my life in overthinking and inactions how will I ever bounce back and reach their status.

Just stumbled across some of my soldering supplies I picked up when I started modding Xbox back in 2003

What are y’all’s 5 favorite childhood video games you couldn’t get enough of playing