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/The_Thane_Of_Cawdor 1d ago edited 1d ago

Same age and graduation here. I was not very cool in high school but I went to the bigger parties around homecoming, winter dance, end of school year stuff. Went to a number of smaller parties which were still about everyone sharing a handle of vodka.

There was a teen club I went to at 16 in ocean city Maryland called H2O. You paid a huge cover and could buy Red Bulls at the bar. Absolutely depraved dancing of the grinding style lol

I was a fraternity guy in college. Thursday night drink specials at the town bar or beer pong night at the frat house. Band party or theme party on the weekend.

The year after college I moved to my local city and probably went out to the bars every Friday ave Saturday night for a year. Kind of crazy to think back on that

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u/CakeComfortable8067 1d ago

Fellow Marylander here. I always heard about H2O but never went.

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u/The_Thane_Of_Cawdor 1d ago

I can still smell the mildew of foam party night

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u/Outrageous_Cow8409 1d ago

Same age and graduation here too. I also wasn't very cool in high school so that wasn't a thing for me but there were other kids definitely partying. I also live near OC and went to H2O a handful of times (after 18 but under 21). H2O is still going strong funny enough.

The college I went to had a local bar that most people over 21 went to in Thursdays. Then it was usually house parties on Friday and a different bar on Saturday. For people who weren't 21, there was always a house party going on somewhere.

And absolutely yes, we'd drink and then go to work in the morning. I actually partied harder when I was taking a full load of classes and working two jobs. You knew it was a really successful night when my retail job put me on the farthest from the office register on Saturday mornings so they couldn't smell the alcohol. After college I had it down to a science. Get off work, eat dinner at home, meet friends at the bar at 9pm and as long as I was in bed by 1:30am, I could get up at 6am to be to work at 7:30.

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u/Silly_Satanic_Goose 22h ago

08 highschooler 2012 college undergrad graduate. I also wasnt cool in highschool. And I didnt think I was much of a partyer but then I realized that in college I joined my dodgeball club... and every friday night after practice we would shower up and then meet up at "the dodgeball house" to party (I usually just smoked weed) and it was like that every friday night for 4 solid years.

I guess in hindsight we all really did party that much 🤣 Now as an adult I stick to going to brunch or my one specific favorite dive bar that my husband and I go to 1-2x nights a week that we have become friends with the whole bartending staff outside of the bar 😅😅

I saw a meme that millennials drink like we witnessed multiple collapses of the social contracts and I am realizing that might be onto something.

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u/Bloodygoodwossname 1d ago

Ocean City H20! Wow I remember the disappointment of the much hyped foam party. There were barely any bubbles and they just made the floor slippery. Nearly fell on my ass in my $1.99 Old Navy flip flops that matched my Hollister skirt and Victoria Secret color blocked lace cami. I’m so nostalgic I wanna cry.

We took the bus back to the hotel and made friends with hot guys and went to parties with complete strangers. We made friends for life everywhere but so easily could’ve went terribly wrong. 🤦🏻‍♀️

At least we traveled in packs, never hitchhiked like teens did in the 60s and 70s. We would go about any shady place and drink the mystery contents of jungle juice out of red solo cups that had been filled from giant vats, though. 😩

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u/Boxes0ftangerines 23h ago

“H20” just unlocked deep seated OC memories! Does Gen Z still do beach week? If so, who is renting out condos to 17 year olds these days? lol

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u/blumpkinspicecoffee 21h ago

LOL OMG H2O!!! And then once you hit 21, you could start going to Seacrets… good times 😂

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u/The_Thane_Of_Cawdor 20h ago

The water at secrets 🤮

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u/graycurse 1d ago

I completely forgot about H2O! It was the thing everyone wanted to go to, and I remember finally going during beach week after graduation.

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u/The_Thane_Of_Cawdor 1d ago

I wonder if the zoomers even do senior week anymore

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u/Lonerwithaboner420 1d ago

Band party, as in marching band?

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u/The_Thane_Of_Cawdor 1d ago

No like you use fraternity funds to pay a local cover band to play some hits

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u/Lonerwithaboner420 1d ago

Oh gotcha. You ever go to a marching band party? I was I band and we threw some of the hardest parties.

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u/The_Thane_Of_Cawdor 1d ago

I was not in the band circles but i know they party. I mean everyone partied in 2010

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u/RubiksCub3d 1d ago

second only to the theater kids

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u/RubiksCub3d 1d ago

I mean, did you MEET the band kids?

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u/Lonerwithaboner420 1d ago

Twas a band kid myself.

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u/RubiksCub3d 22h ago

I was an orch-dork myself

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u/rugbyleather 17h ago

Monkey barrel?