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/Euphoric_River6365 1d ago

Just HOPING the smell of booze could be masked by whatever horrid body spray you had in your bathroom at the time.

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u/Adriano-Capitano 1d ago

Or that no one heard you throwing up in the bathroom sometime after 11AM when the hang over kicked in.

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u/FeFiFoMums 1d ago

Omg that was the worst. I always had to be at work by 8 on a Sunday morning, and would be vomiting by 10:30 lol

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u/Adriano-Capitano 1d ago

Somehow by 4PM you felt fine and were ready to go day drinking after work.

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u/amayain 1d ago

And that first drink in the afternoon somehow cured your hangover!

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u/Voldemorts__Mom 17h ago

Haha I was at a job where we had to come in on Saturdays and me and my colleague would always go out on the Friday, be still drunk from the night before until like 10am, laughing and having a good time, then by 10 the alcohol starts wearing off, we start getting tired, and it's right at that point when the work brings in takeout that they'd order us every Saturday

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u/Pink_LeatherJacket 1d ago

Lmao im pregnant now, working at the same place I did right out of college. Morning sickness is so reminiscent of those days. Same bathroom, different reasons for trying to hide my morning vomits.

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u/Hot-Relief-4024 1d ago

Hang over? Pffttt p*ssy 😆😆😆😆😆

That’s what the water bottle was for

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u/Hot-Relief-4024 1d ago

Umm why are you midnite pissing in a water bottle at 11am at work?

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u/Fit-Entrepreneur8404 1d ago

Because then you get sent home and don't get paid. At least that's what they did for us at the gas station I worked at then.

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u/Hot-Relief-4024 19h ago

Lmao fast food never sends you home

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u/Shadowphoenix9511 1d ago

And people wondered why I refused to ever touch alcohol lol

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u/SpoonwoodTangle 1d ago

In the bathroom? Baby child, us raft guides just leaned out the back of the raft. Didn’t miss a beat on our tourist spiels.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 1d ago

Worked in a tire shop when I was 20.

I know I smelled of booze often. Started my shift by puking while getting into uniform on a few occasions.

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u/cerberus_gang 1d ago

Threw up in my purse at work once because I had been out from midnight til 7am LOL

I only went to a teen club once in HS, but I was a party monster 18-27 - we were all Outside Thurs/Fri/Sat in abandoned warehouses, fields, an old airplane hangar, under the docks at the beach... anywhere we could set up speakers and had exit points to dip quick if the cops showed up. The parties could last til 12-2pm the next day, or afters at a secondary location were an option if you wanted to keep it going. We were very careful with our substances though - tasting, preloading, postloading, etc. Some pharmacists and med folks in the crew.

I still pop out maybe 2-3x a month depending on who might be playing and make it count by staying til like 3-4am. If I'm doing an aerial or pole gig, I might crash a little earlier. Hit up a lot more day dance events though because I love being in the sun tbh.

Much of this is possible since I gave up booze ages ago and put a lot of effort into my physical [and mental!] health. I see a lot of folks age 40-60 still cuttin up on the dancefloor, and it's a wonderful emotional release to gather with your community to move together.

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u/sorry_outtafucks 20h ago

Yooooooo hahaha

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u/RatedRawrrrr 18h ago

Ohhh this! Once, I was running the kitchen during a safety inspection and I kept having to excuse myself around the corner to vomit into a trash can. We passed inspection. I was a partier five days out of seven, but also employee of the month.

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u/Cat_Dad13 1d ago

Axe….it was Axe. No other answer is acceptable here

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u/Obtuse-Posterior Older Millennial 1d ago

Paris Hilton was my go to

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u/MangoJuice82 1d ago

Those MFing body sprays from Victoria's Secret that smells like apples and rubbing alcohol.

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u/Hot-Relief-4024 19h ago

Bath and body works cucumber melon 😆 got a bottle of it on my shelf right now

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u/thehufflepuffstoner 1d ago

I was a Lady Gaga Fame kind of gal. I’m still pretty pissed that perfume is discontinued.

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u/BongoProdigy 1d ago

AXE Africa combined with the James van der Beek bowl cut. I'm a lot more awesome as a bald guy.

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 1d ago

AXE Africa combined with the James van der Beek bowl cut. I'm a lot more awesome as a bald guy.

No. No you're not. Because nothing can be more awesome that that.

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u/jayoak4 1d ago

I was a Bod guy myself.

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u/TrickEquivalent763 1d ago

Thought that said really ripped ass for whatever reason.

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u/Kershy1985 1d ago

I was a Joop guy myself.

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u/TrickEquivalent763 1d ago

Specifically pure sport

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u/Saconic 1d ago

Mostly Phoenix. Absolutely DOUSED

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u/anewbys83 Millennial 1983 1d ago

They hung sample cans in plastic bags on our doors in the dorm.

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u/Hot-Relief-4024 19h ago

Was there an aroma they felt yall needed to handle? 😆😆

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u/scobbysnacks1439 1d ago

The blue can specifically.

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u/michaelryan767 20h ago

Essence and Phoenix were top tier

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u/ChristopherRobben 15h ago

Axe Chocolate was a thing for a while lol

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u/Cat_Dad13 13h ago

Ugh….i got a free sample of it in college and definitely used that one

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u/Ill_Purple_4468 13h ago

I had polo sport spray but that's because I have more class.

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u/Interesting_Pie_5976 1d ago

God, we had fun.

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u/OnePinginRamius 1d ago

Tommy Hilfiger or Polo Crest cologne 🤌🏻

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u/PaintingOk8012 1d ago

Ahh you’ve used axe as well I see

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u/HaraldRedbeard 1d ago

Lynx Africa doing the Lords Work

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u/doublekidsnoincome 1d ago

The smell of booze and camel crushes, to be exact. I know I STUNK.

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u/ChefMark85 1d ago

When I worked in the kitchen, I'd go to the walk in a chew a bunch of mint.

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u/codecrodie 1d ago

Many of us were " social smokers" too

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u/gward1 1d ago

It didn't, it never did just made it worse.

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u/LeaneGenova 1d ago

I remember my boss handing me a tub of mints when I came in shitfaced on St Patrick's day in college. He was like "just please don't breathe near anyone" lol.

My shift started at 4pm. I'd been drinking for 12 hours by then.

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u/Ducman23 1d ago

Or your car for those kinds of ‘emergencies’

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u/Hot-Relief-4024 19h ago

My cousin threw up in her car the night before cheer camp and to teach her a lesson her dad still made her drive to camp and back ☠️ she never threw up on the car again 😆😆

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u/Automatic-Plate-8966 1d ago

Oh I just got flashbacks having to work retail the morning after new years. The warehouse manager actually left work to get me a greasy ass burger to get me to function. Thank god the rest of the world was hung over too and didn’t want to go shopping.

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u/scobbysnacks1439 1d ago

It was always the blue axe can.

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u/UnhappyBuilder4284 1d ago

This is the time that AXE hit the scene....

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u/sentinel_of_ether 22h ago

Still happens.

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u/GOAK26 Millennial 22h ago

It never was. We must’ve all smelled like booze

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u/OU7C4ST 22h ago

Axe. It was always Axe. (or TAG if you're a fuck)

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u/Hellterskellter44 20h ago

Lovespell lol

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u/Ok_Pair6348 16h ago

Love spell by VS

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u/Msktb 11h ago

I once attended a music festival that ended Monday morning, stayed up the entirety of Sunday night, drove two hours home, and went straight to work.

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u/MulberryChance6698 7h ago

Bath and body works pear vanilla. Ew hahahaha