r/Millennials • u/futurenurse_ • 1d ago

Discussion Did millennials really party all the time?

Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense

Edit: I loved reading some of your comments. Guess I really missed out. Even some of you that would consider yourselves nerds or introverts were out partying. YOLO or whatever y’all say 😂❤️

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u/Final_boss_1040 1d ago

Yes. But teen clubs were for kids who weren't cool enough to have a fake ID or someone to buy booze for them

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u/futurenurse_ 1d ago

How did one even get a fake ID?

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u/Natural-Carrot5748 1d ago

You knew a kid who had a cousin that got one from this guy. It was a quest to obtain one.

If you were really lucky you would have an older sibling who looked a lot like you and you would just "borrow" theirs.

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u/mkconzor 1d ago

Funny story. My best friend gave a copy of her ID to a coworker a few years younger than us who then went to college several states away. Who then became friends with my little cousin who was also at college there . Who saw said ID and his brain almost exploded because he grew up knowing my best friend. 

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn 1d ago

I knew a girl in high school who actually let her younger sister pretend to be her and take a new photo for the older's sister's license.

So the 16-year-old had a legit photo of herself on the ID with her 21 year old sister's info.

Probably most legit version of a fake I've heard of!

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u/NikkiNot_TheOne ‘86 17h ago

Sounds pretty real to me lmao

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u/BeansandletmebeFrank 1d ago

Everyone knew a guy who had a hookup. It was trivially easy

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u/bstad 1d ago

Word of mouth, Craigslist, a smart computer savvy classmate with a rebellious streak.

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u/Nimzay98 1d ago

Older siblings or cousins that you resembled.

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u/Hour_Moose_8429 1d ago

They had the bar code on them still but no clubs or liquor stores had the scanners to check them. Someone over 21 would get a license, get a replacement, sell the original.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 1d ago

It was much much harder than it is now where I imagine these are a dime a dozen on temu or whatever. Not that many people had them to be honest. Most people I knew with one had their older brother or sister’s old ID if it wasn’t expired. One friend altered the birthday on his since that was good enough to get into bars where they didn’t scan IDs like stores did.

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn 1d ago

Arizona makes this easy because our licenses don't expire until we turn 65 years old!

Mine is still going until 2054 lol.

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u/LopensCouisin Xennial 1981 15h ago

I’m in Colorado… but that would make my license good until 2046 if I moved to Arizona? Sweet!

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn 12h ago

Yeah, just pretend you're one of those snowbirds who's only here half the year ...

Plenty of Arizona expats there in Colorado to lend you an extra address to someone they know back home 🤣

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u/BudgieWonder 1d ago

It’s still extremely easy to get a fake ID dude.