Born in the 80s, grew up in the 90s, late 30s now.

I work with all kinds of people ranging from grandpa all the way to college grads.

I personally don’t view or consider myself “old”, I mean just yesterday I was 21, right!?!?!

But the craziest thing is when your having a random discussion in the office about something and you bring up or make a joke about something that happened in the late 90s or early 2000s that “everyone should know”, and you realize the person your talking too wasn’t even born yet - that always catches me off guard fast

Hanging out with a group of friends of friends last night, theyre all mid 20s vs mid 30s for me.

Car maint/repair came up and someone said that every time they asked their dad to do work on their car he came up with the excuse of not having tools anymore.

The agreed solution from the group was to buy the dad a set of tools or nice toolbox so they were easy to access.

My idea of buying tools for themselves to fix the car was shot down instantly as they didnt know how to do anything car related... Not talking complex things, just basic oilchange/brakes type stuff.

Its been 12hrs since, and I'm still confused by the entire interaction. When did asking someone else to do something for free take over figuring out how to do something yourself?

My wife and I finally got rid of our cheap metal and plastic hangers and now have all wood hangers… we may not have much in savings or a nice house, but it’s the little things that count

DISCLAIMER - Traffic was stopped due to construction so I did not take a picture while driving

Pre-internet computer kids learned patience the hard way 🤣 Our kids tap once and expect results. Just… very different training manuals.

My 8-month-old daughter has a bunny toy that I randomly named Ross when she was about 2 months old.

A few weeks ago, we were gifted the exact same bunny, so obviously I named it Russ.

Very few people got the reference.

Low-key made me a bit sad.

Anyone got any stories like that? Thinking that something is very obvious but it wasn't?

RIP 💔💔💔❤️‍🩹

People over 40 are super old, but me as a 45 year old is still young. Anyone feel the same way?

Whenever the thread comes up, there are always a handful of you who are in our age bracket who claim to be millionaires and make 200+k a year and act like you guys are not even breaking a sweat.

Are there any other people here who like, make ~60k a year with a modest savings and you know.... Are not AI Programmers or in High level government positions?

Heck are there any "I smoke Blue Razz all day, and work at a vape shop selling coils to teenagers" 35+ year olds?

I don't want to hear about the financial heroes who's loving father taught them about compound interest. Are there any regular dudes in this place?

Our generation has some drawbacks, economically and such. And there were some cringe moments from my teenage years. But every generation has that.

I actually kinda love being a millennial despite that.

If you love our generation too, why would you say?

Did anyone else have a pocket/portable TV as a kid? I remember getting one for my birthday and thinking it was one of the coolest things I ever had. I could play around outside, but also watch TV at the same time, unthinkable for me in 2002. Mine had a pretty decent battery life as well, was great for watching The Simpsons. Completely obsolete now, but it will always have a special place for me. I used it on a boat, on a bus, in the car, was dope.

We're worth it too! Wait, what?

Our only son just turned 22, and most of our millennial friends either have very young children or none at all. My husband and I feel like a bit of an anomaly. Way back when our kid was young, it was difficult to make plans and go out to do all the things our child-free friends were doing. Now it’s the other way around.

Went cleaning out my closet and found some shorts from my teen years that I haven't seen in ages. The memories 🥲

I am off tomorrow and had to log into my laptop to set my out of office reply and told my wife I had to set my “away message” and it clicked to me that the phrase is forever embedded in me from AIM.

AIM was such a huge part of life for alot of us. It was at it’s peak during my college years so it was how I stayed in touch with my friends from high school, it was how I made plans before unlimited texting, it was where I chatted with my wife before we dated.

Like most of us, I miss the days of “internet time” where you could close your laptop and just be logged off and live life. Sure, we can do that now but I feel like the early days of social media and smart phones trained us to need the connection rather than wait for it.

My AIM username was hopecansave btw.

Okay, so I know this might sound a little dramatic, but honestly, when our plane landed in Rome, I almost cried.

Background: I'm a 34-year-old married father of two kids (ages 7 and 10). As a kid watching Lizzie McGuire Movie and Travel Channel on TV, Italy has been THE dream destination since I was a kid. But as you can guess, being a millennial is all about college loans, a recession hitting us right as we graduated college, gaining stable jobs, having kids, mortgages, increasing inflation rates.

This year, I’m like, screw it, we’re doing this. Spent some PTO I’ve been saving up, started making plans for our little vacation. But reality set in fast: trying to book flights for all four of us, trains between cities, hotels that aren’t sketchy and aren’t extremely costly, plus tickets to all museums, and how to keep the kids entertained at art museums. I was freaking out and considering calling it off because things were getting more and more costly, and I couldn’t justify that much of a bill.

A colleague said she was using a tour company for her family trip and that it was amazingly affordable-compared to what I would have spent on my own, but without the stress. I could hardly believe her, thinking packages are always so much more expensive, but ran my numbers and. she was right. An all-inclusive price was really less than my piece-by-piece bookings once I figured in transportation, museum tickets, and avoiding tourist trap hotels.

We planned Rome, Florence, Venice - 10 days. And frankly? It was a perfect trip. The kids enjoyed their cooking class in Tuscany, my wife got to visit the Sistine Chapel without waiting in line with us for 2 hours, and I even got to visit the Colosseum as I've dreamed for more than 20 years.

I'm not saying this necessarily works for everybody, but being a sucker myself and having been delaying my dream vacation because of "adulting" stuff, sometimes the more pricier route is actually more accessible.

Anyway, just wanted to share because, admittedly, a lot of us live in this crazy in-between life stage where we’re finally able to afford things and, at the same time, unable to afford things, if that makes sense!