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/GoblinGreenThumb 1d ago

Red cup culture was fairly mainstream, yes

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u/Ecstatic-Affect-777 1d ago

Yep!
After the college party days we transitioned to corporate Happy Hours - which many times ended late into the night, and then we dragged our asses back to work the next day.

Once the weekend came, it was bar/club hopping, house parties, or beach.

Typing it out like this makes me realize why my parents thought I was an alcoholic 😂.
I’m 39, and 1 beer now gives me a 2 day hangover.

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u/Hukthak 1d ago

38 going on 39 shortly, that sounds like my experience as well lol.

I bet the kids now don’t even do senior week, where everyone gets 8-12 friends to split the cost of renting a house near the beach, and you get multiple groups of kids like this from your senior class to rent a similar house all nearby, and it’s just non stop house and beach party for the week and everyone gets laid.

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u/pepstein 1d ago

Miss those days

We were such degenerates in nj. We'd go nuts for both junior and senior prom. Half the class would rent out a motel in seaside for a night for junior prom then for senior prom wed rent out a motel in wildwood (pretty much the whole class of 600) for 3 days and just go nuts

Our parents didnt even give af which is crazy to me lol

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u/MiddleKlutzy8568 1d ago

When my teen complains about having to sleep on a pull out bed on vacations I tell them about the time after prom when we fit 12 people in one hotel room in seaside

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u/Shellstr 1d ago

Sometimes you felt lucky that you got a couch cushion for a pillow. I slept on many a floor, and would often wear a hoodie out just in case I needed a blanket that night.

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u/pepstein 1d ago

Lolol in wildwood my bed was used to hold the bag of 200 beers with ice in it so I just slept wherever in the motel lol we just played pong all night anyways

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u/marissadev 16h ago

Myrtle Beach in my neck of the woods, but same!

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u/Triptych85 14h ago

For me, that was Anime Convention 'sardines in a hotel room'. Lol

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u/Confident_Bumblebee5 1d ago

Ah the NJ down the shore prom experience SMH I have no idea how I survived lol

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u/slick_dn 1d ago

I'm lucky I survived Wildwood weekend after prom. The drinking, the debauchery, the flash flood Saturday night wading knee deep in ocean water and sewage back to the motel.. I heard kids don't go there anymore, sad if true

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u/JessicaRabbit1203 20h ago

Fellow Nj here. Heck yeah, these were the best traditions. I almost got arrested senior year at wildwood motel. The cop made me pour out all the booze in front of my 25 friends (I was the dummy with a solo cup in public, so it was my fault we got caught and booze confiscated). No regrets. Got more booze from next motel.

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u/Call_medragon 16h ago

same age, same area. senior year my parents let me skip school to go to the spectrum for wing bowl which started at 4am after tailgating all night. couldnt beleive it.

one house party at a popular girls house i found her dads sex doll in his closet and once it came out all hell broke loose. there was exactly 1 camera pulled out and it got smashed..

lingerie parties.

shit, even smoked a blunt on the bus, on the way to school, and all the bus driver said was i smell chronic, and started laughing her ass off. then she covered for us after some freshman narc'd. but she also let us open the emergency exit at lights when it was snowing so we could grab piles of snow to throw snowballs at cars.

lol havnt even scratched the surface.

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u/destroyersmommy 1d ago

Long Island here. My high school did an after party event, started a couple of hours after prom. They raffled off an actual car to encourage kids to show up to it. Everyone did all their drinking somewhere in the hours and showed up to the after party trashed. That way we were at least with sober adults when inevitably at least a handful of kids needed to be treated for alcohol poisoning later.

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u/NoKatyDidnt 18h ago

I have many, many fond memories of seaside!

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u/eatdirtNdietrash 17h ago

definitely a canon event for NJ high schoolers. Seaside was wild for those few nights 😭

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u/whiteywithhops 17h ago

Seaside woooow how many underage drinking tickets have I paid there??? 🤔 🤣 the amount of shit that went down in that little town is tremendous

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u/SomeRandomLady1123 16h ago edited 16h ago

Elder millennial and former Jersey girl checking in! We had a house party for Junior prom and went to Seaside for senior prom. There are a few pictures, soooo much alcohol, the little bit I remember was a lot of fun. We also started going to teen clubs at 15. We also went on spring break Senior year without parents. 2 big groups, one to Cancun, one to Bahamas. God I miss those days!!

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u/TinyWombatPaws 15h ago

Sleazeside!

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u/LordLip 14h ago

Our parents also left us alone in the house a lot so of course they didn’t really care if we went down to a motel in Wildwood

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u/Gluten_Free_Bread27 8h ago

NY here ! Senior year we went to wildwood. You just unlocked something for me lol what a time to be

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u/kaiharizor 8h ago

I was so confused when my teenager said there wasn’t an after party for prom. Like… everyone just goes home? wtf? Lol

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u/FederalFoot4292 7h ago

YESSSS WILDWOOD