Was looking at banking/budget thing online today and it said the average person spends $240/month on groceries. Seems super low as someone with a family a four.

How much y'all spending?

Halloween family-themed costumes wasn’t really a thing when I was growing up. I can’t even remember kids that had parents who dressed up. I’m glad Millennials have made this a thing.

I remember watching Country music videos at 6 am

I had approximately 7 kids come to my house last night for trick or treating. I was so excited to pass out candy. It makes me so sad to think about how trick or treating was for me in the late 90s and early 2000s, I remember the streets being packed with kids and we’d be out all night getting candy.

Is there a way to revive this tradition with our kids? Or is this a tradition that will die with the millennials? 😢

ETA: I am happy to hear trick or treating is still alive and well in other communities! I live in a highly populated, family friendly neighborhood so idk what our problem is. But I’m glad it’s not dead everywhere. 🎃

I've noticed when watching contemporary movies or shows that feature late 90s or early 00s scenes or story lines (presumably because the writers are millennials themselves), they are lacking the absolute contempt for us that filled/fueled our elders.

High school felt doubly antagonistic having to try to fit in with my peers but also not attract the rage of my boomer teachers and admin.

I'm wondering both if other millennials felt this contempt as vividly as I did and also if it's just my imagination that Gen Z/Alpha did not/are not experiencing it to the degree that we did?

Thinking back my parents and grandparents had tons of photo albums like everything printed from my birth to great uncles sleeping on the couch (for some reason my great grandma loved taking photos of people when they were sleeping.) This got me thinking I have photo albums of stuff I took until really about the time I got my first camera phone. Since then I've probably printed 200 or less photos with a large bulk being my wedding. So are we the last generation with photo albums? My kid only ever takes photos with his Ipad and has never wanted to print a single one.

This band probably isn't widely known to the younger cohort of Millenials. I've always appreciated Live and have always been surprised they weren't bigger, and seem to be largely forgotten. Anyone else?

Omg you guys! Last night during our neighborhood trick or treat (which is awesome, btw. My neighborhood does the damn thang when it comes to Halloween. Gen x and millennials are the best for Halloween, like yards full of giant, classic characters such as jack skeleton, grown adults in full costume scaring my kiddos, hands coming out of bowls, projectors with Halloween movies playing, it looks like mf halloweentown), there was a man dressed as Michael Meyers. He wasn't just wearing the mask, either. He was tall and big. He was dressed like Mike. He had the hair like Mike. He walked and stood like Michael Meyers.

It was actually scary! And funny. Because all the parents were the ones scared 😂😂. The kids were clueless, but the parents were like "yo that's scary AF". My 5yo daughter overheard the adults talking about it and ran to me so I could hold her hand. I wish I could have got a picture because omg you guys. I don't really like horror films and actually have only seen the Halloween movies like one time each, but even I was convinced. It. Was. So. Real. I started to make a comment like "wouldn't that be crazy if he just started slashing people", but thought better of it and kept my big stupid mouth shut bc there were kids around and also, murder jokes probably aren't actually funny. But I can't stop picturing this Michael Meyers I saw last night. Like holy shit it was so real and badass. I love our generation.

I think it stole my soul as it peered into it.

When did you notice your first gray hair, and how did you feel about it? Did it freak you out, or were you just like, ‘meh, it happens’?

I’m 29 and have at least four gray hairs. There’s one that really gets me—it’s a single white strand that pops up about two inches back on the top right side of my head. It’s only noticeable when I put my hair up to wash my face, and it literally just stares at me in the mirror like, ‘Hey there!’ every single day. I have long dark hair and the single white strand looks like a baby hair.

EDIT: Shortly after posting, I realized that I may have gotten mine a little early. I started surgical menopause due to cancer, so I wonder if that’s sped up the process.

Last year i bought my first house, and was so excited to hand candy out! Unfortunately that trunk-or-treat crap was still in effect because nobody could let go of covid conveniences (i live in Florida so no, it's not because it's too cold)

It was tremendously disappointing and saddening, everyone was posting online how disappointed they were when nobody showed up.

But this year it seems to be coming back again! My neighborhood wasn't the most active however we still got a handful of trick or treaters, and i was so happy to finally have my chance to provide this awesome experience to the younger generation.

Owning a home isn't exactly our generation's most common achievement, so when i finally had my own, it's one of those big deals to me

So did anyone else get more this year than the last?

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Somehow some way my wife had never seen this gem of a show, so last night we watched it. I was shocked it has actually aged just fine and is still perfectly fun.

Was it the first thing you said this morning to have good luck all month?

I was born in 89 and my god do I wish I could time travel to the 80s as a young adult and move to NYC and time travel again to NYC in the 90s and be apart of some much great stuff lol. Maybe I’m biased but history seemed so much cooler lol. I’d party with all the 80s and 90s kids. Can you imagine sitting in a coffee shop in NYC in the 90s listening to Tracey Chapman , or That Toms Diner song or a Madonna or Michael Jackson concert. I just don’t think people will look back at the 2010s with any kind of nostalgia lol. We have Beyoncé and Taylor Swift 😂 . But Madonna, Prince, Michael, Boy George, Whitney Houston, ayyye so many reasons to feel things man lol.

My parents just bought a caravan/travel trailer/camper trailer, and while I enjoy tent camping and hiking, I can't quite see myself investing in one of these when I retire. It got me wondering—will this type of setup fade out with our parents' generation, or do Millennials still have a passion for towing a camper home for their adventures?

Some people are very proud of their achievements. Some people are very ashamed of their circumstances.

Here's a third perspective that many already share: it's all luck.

Obviously this may be confirmation bias:

I did everything wrong.

But I was lucky enough to be born in the United States.

I almost dropped out of high school. But due to high SAT scores I went to a low level school.

I failed multiple classes in college. I did no internships and had no experience. But was lucky enough to graduate before the recession and was hired as an analyst at a Fortune 500 company.

I went to work late, left early, slept in the car during the day and was on the phone and not at my desk half the time. I was probably going to be fired but I straight up quit with no plan because I didn't like working. Then the recession hit.

I was unemployed for four years and lived at home. I didn't care and applied to zero jobs.

I finally decided I should do something. I applied to IT jobs and bullshit my way through interviews until I got an entry level job.

Then I applied to a prestigious company. No networking no nothing just an online application through their website. I was interviewed by an executive who was also brand new so he didn't really know how to properly hire for that company. I got the job even though I was under qualified.

With the company on my resume, I was able to job hop to a more senior position at another well known company.

At this point I had $0 in savings because I spent it all on girls and a lifestyle I couldn't afford.

But I started saving. Meanwhile I was promoted a couple of times and my compensation doubled.

Then I married my wife. Who happened to be from a well off family. Her family funded the down payment for a million dollar home I could not afford.

Then Covid happened. FAANG was on a hiring spree and a recruiter reached out to me.

My compensation doubled. The value of my home doubled. And my savings doubled.

I did almost everything wrong and somehow I'm okay.

And I realize it was all bullshit luck.

I benefited from it but I also understand how BS it all is for those who do not get lucky.

Jackass was wildly popular there for a while, and at my school it spawned a group of teens who started doing their own stunts and recording them. As I recall, the most serious injury from anyone at my HS during a stunt was a broken foot, but when I remember how some of their stunts went down, I really have to imagine there were a few dudes who got their first spinal fusion earlier than the average.

A particular one I remember, just due to the public nature of it, was 3 of them entered the talent show saying they were doing a lip sync thing. But what they actually did was all 3 ran off the stage, in a practiced unison, and they all did a front flip off the stage landing flat on their backs on the tile floor as close to the front row seating as they could.

What Jackass stories do you recall from your own high school years?

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I remember having to restarting games over and praying the system to work

This movie still rocks today.

There is a current (?) trend in TikTok where you share your unusual crushes. What are yours? Mine is from Halloweentown (1998)

There are so many different quarters out now, but growing up a bicentennial quarter was the only variation. Any time I get one I save it away.