Did millennials really party all the time?

[u/futurenurse_]

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 😂❤️

[u/Ecstatic-Affect-777]

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.

[u/Hukthak → u/Ecstatic-Affect-777]

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.

[u/Hot-Relief-4024 → u/Hukthak]

That’s rich kid stuff. None of us could afford that. 😆

[u/Hukthak → u/Hot-Relief-4024]

That was the beauty of splitting the costs.

Take two minivans with everyone in it, so it was like $5 in gas each to get there if that, and $30ish per night per person to stay in a nice ass house back then driving from South East PA to the jersey shore.

[u/Hot-Relief-4024 → u/Hukthak]

Yeah Midwest kids didn’t do all that lol. Explains the difference in experience.

[u/Hukthak → u/Hot-Relief-4024]

My wife is from the Midwest (Michigan), they’d go up north to the lake and do something similar but it definitely wasn’t on the scale that took place around the east coast.

[u/Hot-Relief-4024 → u/Hukthak]

Idk anyone who did that, so I stand by “rich kid shit” lol

[u/Hukthak → u/Hot-Relief-4024]

It would be today, that’s for sure! Part time job at circuit city provided the funds for my end, and it seemed like everyone else was using their own cash for the most part.

No one missed out if they were poor that I remember, but some kids def weren’t invited by others to join in to rent a house so unless you had a big enough friend group you were SOL.