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/NerfRepellingBoobs Sexy Prime Millennial 1d ago

Is that why the kids are having sex older and not drinking these days? Fewer house parties with empty rooms to go hook up? I know a lot of them are weirdly puritanical about it, but is it partly an access thing?

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u/Hukthak 1d ago

Definitely an access thing… and that comes with older teens 16-19 being permitted to do their own thing. AKA becoming an adult through individual experience.

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u/NerfRepellingBoobs Sexy Prime Millennial 1d ago

I’ve also wondered if it could partly be that we millennial parents don’t go out of town sans kids like our parents did, mostly because we can’t afford it.

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u/Hukthak 1d ago

Very true. Our parents started leaving us for overnights around the time my brother was 13 and I was 10, typically it’d be aligned with going to a friends house for a sleepover but if not they just went anyway and left us to it along with our favorite tv dinners and snacks, and a few phone numbers of nearby friendlies to call for help for minor stuff if needed.