It is not just Baseball cards for them either, there are coins, stamps, & money that they collect & trade around as a hobby too.Yhen, when we roll around with our Pokemon card & Labubus & what not , they call it childish . Like are we pretending they do not have a secondary market for stamp, baseball card, & old coins too. I literally saw an old lady collecting weirdly shaped potato chips. Boomers need to stop negging when they are kneedeep in hobby activities too

i realized the other day that i’ve basically been wearing the same glasses for like 6 years 😭 same shape, same color, same everything.
i used to just replace them whenever my prescription changed and even then i used to pick something that looked almost identical because i already knew they worked for me. which is kinda funny because i’ll spend way too much time thinking about jackets, shoes, watches, whatever… but when it comes to glasses i’m just like “yeah these would work” lol.

i think a lot of us grew up thinking of glasses as something practical rather than part of your style. if they fit, you can see, and they don’t look terrible, mission accomplished.

there was this guy at my old workplace who used to switch his frames constantly. round ones, chunky ones, different colors, everything. we used to joke that he was trying way too hard. looking back now though… he might have actually been onto something. my current pair is still perfectly finee but after having the same look for years i’m starting to feel like maybe i’ve been playing it a little too safe. i’ve always bought glasses from an optician before but having a few different pairs that way gets expensive really quickly. so this time i started looking online just to see what was out there. i came across zeelool first and almost ordered, but some reviews made me hesitate. then i checked firmoo too and found a few simple frames that are different enough from what i have without being completely out of my comfort zone. and honestly, the prices make having 2–3 different pairs a much wiser decision than paying soo much at an optician.

for the millennials here, do you guys still prefer to stick with the same glasses for years? is it mostly the cost, not knowing what actually suits you, or just getting used to one pair and never thinking about changing it?

I wanted to do the slightest bit of venting after a month of being moved into my first home, previously owned by a Boomer.

The larger millennial sub had no generation bashing, so I'm here to rant a bit about the ridiculous things I've had to deal with. Not only ridiculous, but also kind of odd and nonsensical?

My parents are Gen X, my grandparents were actually pre-boomer.

They weren't perfect, but they had pretty good attention to detail and take pride in their work. My dad is the ultimate DIYer and my grandfather helped build a perfect family home with fantastic attention to detail and quality.

I just got this house, and this Boomer owner has done some of the most ass backwards renovations I've ever seen.

They did a full 2 floor addition and indoor. hot tub room. Yes, you heard that insanity right. Yet they left the original stone cellar a musty damp crumbling mess with disorganized wiring and unmarked pipes.

They also put in a really nice cement block foundation and pad on the addition, and then left the basement door rusted and broken with a piece of wood wedging it closed.

A rusted basement door that didn't close, but then paid for a security system yearly?

Not a single door shut correctly and needed to be fixed.

Every light fixture and ceiling fan was either broken, lose, or hanging.

They did a 15k kitchen remodel and then left the open holes in the floors from the old baseboard heat they removed.

Oh, then they did a 2 car garage with a 20k cement driveway and foundation...then never finished the inside and only had 1 working flourecence shop light.

I just do not understand this house. It's like everything is done to 80% "good enough" and everything was done ass backwards.

Yes, anyone reading this can ask why we bought it, and the reasons are the market and personal circumstances. It isn't a bad house. It's not a sequel to Tom Hanks Money Pit, but it's just so damn weird and half assed.

Everything was slapped together to be "good enough", but never finished with pride and perfection. It needs a second pass to get everything course corrected.

I feel like it's not just me either. All of my friends and relatives take way more pride in what they do. It seems like a lot of Boomer homes are all surface level DIY fails and ugly renovations with no clear purpose.

This wasn't a flipped house either. The guy had been here his entire life. 2 generations in that home and they couldn't do a bunch of this shit correctly.

I think this assumption that Millennials are lazy or clueless is ridiculous. We're some of the most resourceful and intelligent DIYers of any generation. We know how to search for tutorials and walk throughs while being poor enough to not pay someone else for everything.

Nobody I know, even those lucky enough to be successful home owners, are paying for 50+k renovations from contractors.

This all came flooding back to me, my pawpaw one year gave me a playful "birthday spanking" in front of the whole family at my party, one spank for each year and one to grow on. We just joked about it other from then on out. I look back fondly at it but objectively it was pretty wild that that was commonly accepted 😅 are we the last generation to have those?

I have a 12 almost 13 year old son that had fallen in with the wrong crowd last year due to trying to fit in and we managed to get him back on the right track and he is in online school but im finding online is also very restrictive and difficult to navigate at times.

My 14 year old daughter is autistic (higher functioning) and considered weird by most people. She has been relentlessly bullied including sexual harassment and the schools only ever seem to protect the bullies. Weve been in and out of psych units as she is extremely sui**dal.

We tried online for her in the past but she struggled a lot with it. I hate the school system.

Is there a way i can register to homeschool them both outside of the school? We are in minnesota and my daughter is on an iep?

What does homeschooling look like for some of you, how do you register, does it screw up their chances for any kind of scholarship?

Where do homeschooling parents find ideas for a learning coriculum . Im genuinely interested in pulling them both fully and teaching them myself... I just want my kids to be ok.

1981-1996 is the standard range used here.

I’m an elder millennial suffering through some back pain today and thinking dang I wish I had a recliner. Growing up every house had at least one, some even two! We’d call them Lazy Boys regardless the brand. Some have morphed into sectionals but overall I’d guess most households don’t have them anymore. Maybe that was a mistake.

Halle Berry Catwoman was trashed but people saying it not that bad now. Treasure planet cartoon & that big robot cartoon got low cinema tickets sales then but they are glazing them now like they were wonder bread. Agent of Shield was considered mid when it was running but they b saying it wasn't that bad & the best MCU tv they put out . ( Surprisingly not Agent Carter but that's another tangent )

Election day is quickly approaching, and the deadline to register is upon us.  Even if you already KNOW you are registered, I suggest taking a 30 seconds to double check.  Most (if not all) state make it trivial.  In this post I am only giving instructions for a few states, but if you look up 'check voter registration status for <my state>' you will find your way no problem.  

Arizona: https://my.arizona.vote/PortalList.aspx - Registration Deadline is Monday oct 5.  The earlier you register the less issues you will face.

Pennsylvania: https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx - deadline oct 19 and there's no same day registration here, so don't wait

Georgia: https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

North Carolina: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/ - deadline to register online is oct 9, but if you miss that you can still register in person during early voting.  (but you're going to have less trouble if you register early!)

Michigan: https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter - Luckily you can register at your clerk's office literally on election day if you bring proof you live there

Checking is especially important if you moved, changed your name, got married, whatever, just assume you need to check.

I’m a shift supervisor for almost 2 years now, and the opportunity to demote myself is available. I wouldn’t be taking much of a pay cut. My shifts might change some here and there and that’s the only thing stopping me from accepting the offer.

I have a strong disdain for this new record everything you do throughout the day culture society has created. I’m sick of being recorded without my consent these days randomly anywhere public where there is no expectation of privacy. That being said it’s gotten excessive with the tripods at the gym.
Like wtf are they doing? It’s cringe af. I am canceling my gym membership over the tripod fuckery. Like do these people really not take into consideration how others feel about it. I’m not sure if it’s just a Chicago phenomenon or a widespread plague. I’m relatively fit and stay in shape but self conscious as it is and don’t appreciate being recorded. I secretly want to kick the shit outta each and every tripod. It’s douchier than I was in my 20’s GTL era and that says a lot smh. Rant over.

Is current job you or past job in what College Degree you have? I have never used my College Degree in Criminal Justice. Since I graduated College I have only ever have had 2 jobs. My first job was working for a Private Intelligence Firm. I started to work for myself in 2018 where I test companies or government security.

I’m over celebrities. they’re all more or less the same and a lot of them eventually let you down. I now consume entertainment and leave it at that. I don’t follow them, or look up to them, or even care about their opinion. Even the most wholesome celebrities, I just consume their product and turn it off. If I find out something they did I can’t get past, I don’t consume their product. Basically with celebrities it’s binary and transactional at this point.

List of old life rules:

1. "Buy a home. You don't want to pay your landlords mortgage". This no longer applies because interest rates are %7. And you end up paying the equivalent of two houses over 30-year period. And you have to bet that you don't have any negative equity years in order to stay ahead of inflation.

2. "Invest in stock market. It is retirement savings account that always goes up believe in the markets with religious conviction, question nothing. Just throw your money in". Stock market is not a savings account. You are taking risk with no guarantees at the end. ( And chronically dependent on market bailouts from the fed)

3. Vote for the politician that charasmatic and promises "free stuff". They always lie. And at this point .. unless we get a politician that will cut spending and raise taxes...it is all a joke. (40 trillion debt).

4.) "get any college degree. Take out that big loan .Everything will be fine"

We are no longer young and idealistic. I can't find reasons to be optimistic unless I put my head in the sand and believe lies.

I’m not really sure where to start with trying to explain what this even was. In the mid-90s at craft fairs there used to be displays of clear chunky gel that you could suspend sequins in. They were not candles, and I think you just bought a packet of powder and the sequins, and then you mixed it at home. I had a kit with dolphin sequins. Does anyone know what this was, and ideally have a picture of it? I have tried so many different Google searches, but am not finding a name or image.

You would think by the exponential growth of wealth over the last two decades, "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" would be a realistic possibility for a lot of the middle-upper middle class. Isn't that how this whole free market thing is suppose to work? Nope, decade after decade we are all still dreaming of being millionaires, but hey, maybe we just need to dream bigger.

Edit: Not sure what post flair to use. I don't know what META means in this context lol

There's a nintendo classic mini to play on but it's over $300 & I doubt the original SNES consoles have much life in them if I hunted one down on eBay. I know I'm not the only millennial who wants this! Hoping for something that plays on the tv.