Millennials

[Warpaint]

Born in 1990 and feel I got the best of the world without the internet and also the best of the world with it.

 

[rainbowlemon]

I can’t buy a new car because I need to buy a house, but I can’t buy a house because I am single and being priced out of the area. And if I buy a new car it will eat too much into my deposit. Living with my parents for ever!

It might sound strange but multigenerational homes are super common in Asian families. It can work if the house is big enough and not every one is insane. At one point there were 16 of us all living together in a 8 bed house. My grandparents, my 4 cousins, their two parents, another aunt and cousin. We had two kitchens though and bills were split three ways so it was cheaper overall.

 

[Gossipreadee]

I can’t buy a new car because I need to buy a house, but I can’t buy a house because I am single and being priced out of the area. And if I buy a new car it will eat too much into my deposit. Living with my parents for ever!

 

[JoeBloggs]

Who remembers these? I had a black pair.

 

[jaymie]

I find it funny that people who get the bus for free (outside of London) have no clue how expensive it is. Like I ain't paying £6 for a return into town, I'm not made of money! I knew someone that had to pay £16 to sign on because it was two different bus services to get there. All to get £71 a week.

Quite depressing how many millennials and Gen X are obsessed with signing up to a lifetime of debt. And people think you're a failure if you don't. I speak as an old millennial who enjoyed my 20s living all over the world and traveling before buying a house. Had I been obsessed with living like someone in the developing world to save every penny then tying myself down with debt I would have missed out on so many amazing things.

Totally. It is so depressing to see news about ‘23 years old young couple having no takeaway for 5 years, saved 30k to buy a new build’.

 

[YetAnotherObsessionx]

I’m also an 80s baby and only just make it into the millennial bracket (1982)! I’m almost 40 and still don’t own my own house thanks to years of bad financial decisions. God I wish I’d listened to my parents in my early 20s!

I'm also an 80s baby and sadly my mother had no financial sense whatsoever so I guess I'm doomed! It was nice to grow up without the Internet, tho...

 

[Notgonnalie]

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Did anyone else wear tops like this from Tammy

Omg and coats like these

 

[Emzykins]

'91 baby here. I've just turned 30. I really do think life was so much easier back in the early 2000's. Maybe it's just because we were all younger, but life just seems so odd now (covid aside). The price of living is just something else. I have never been so skint. As a kid, my mum was a single parent and we still managed holidays etc (she worked full time, as do I) - and I can't even afford holidays now (without mega mega saving). I part own my house, simply because I couldn't afford a mortgage.

Bring back the days of reading music lyrics from the back of a cassette tape, SMTV on a Saturday morning and Toys R Us!!

 

[watermelon sugar]

 

[JoeBloggs]

I saved so hard at 18/19 and went to uni with £10k with the idea it was my 10% deposit on a flat when I graduated. Oh how wrong was I.

We’ve been lucky and bought at 27 with help from family but I have no pension. I can’t afford to save for a pension right now.

I hate social media, I hate the internet most of the time. I’ve never had avocado on toast, seems very bland to me!

 

[at-the-disco]

i was born in 1994 i think thats considered a millenial? i have mixed feelings about it, one hand i adored my childhood and having a good balance of internet and actual normal socialisation. i think it was a great time to grow up, however the quality of life we have compared to our parents is a joke, my parents put a £100 deposit down on their house in the 80s!

completely torn between saving money for travelling/experiences or for houses/property. how the hell do people live their lives just saving constantly? my 20s have been fun but i barely have any savings now and i feel awful for it cus every other 27 year old around me has a house, kids or at least something to show for themselves.

 

[Bitofthebubbly]

Anyone remember Crazy Frog

 

[Chewingthefat]

I’m a 80s baby and I can’t relate to anything Millennial. I think that makes me a super millennial because I’ve not just been rejected by society as a whole, but I’m rejected by my own kind as well

I’m also an 80s baby and only just make it into the millennial bracket (1982)! I’m almost 40 and still don’t own my own house thanks to years of bad financial decisions. God I wish I’d listened to my parents in my early 20s!

 

[Doc]

Did anyone play Beehive Bedlam on Sky text?

I also used to do Aerobics Oz Style when I was about 10 I thought it would turn me into Elle McPherson

 

[Notorious PIG]

I’m 40 so a very early Millennial. I remember in 1997, the year I left school, literally only one or two girls had mobile phones and the rest of us were like . I never dreamed I would have my very own mobile phone one day lol! I got my first in 1998 I think it was. Nokia 5110

Before Facebook was a thing (outside US university campuses at least), there was a website called FriendsReunited. A bunch of us managed to reconnect through there. Early 2000s.

I remember going to nightclubs in Leicester Square at 15 but looking probably about 13, with the dodgiest crappiest looking fake ID that was legitimately sold as a “prank” ID through an ad in one of those girls magazines like More! or something.

I can remember in the early days (84/85) having a tv with no remote control. 4 channels and had to change them by getting up and turning the dial. And one of those little all in one units that had a tape player, radio and mini (5 ins I think?) black and white tv screen

 

[Yel]

I find it funny that people who get the bus for free (outside of London) have no clue how expensive it is. Like I ain't paying £6 for a return into town, I'm not made of money! I knew someone that had to pay £16 to sign on because it was two different bus services to get there. All to get £71 a week.

Quite depressing how many millennials and Gen X are obsessed with signing up to a lifetime of debt. And people think you're a failure if you don't. I speak as an old millennial who enjoyed my 20s living all over the world and traveling before buying a house. Had I been obsessed with living like someone in the developing world to save every penny then tying myself down with debt I would have missed out on so many amazing things.

 

[LittleMy]

Saved by the Bell.
Zack Morris.

 

[Notgonnalie]

Omg are you even a millennial if you don’t remember this toy!!!

 

[Smallpotato]

Born in 1985 & both husband and I come from working class families and grew up in council houses. We still rent, and I doubt I’ll never own my own home

 

[LittleMy]

Born in 89. Have so many great memories of an active childhood which didn’t involve being online or playing video games all the time. If we were bored, we went out and made our own fun. I feel like children nowadays can’t think for themselves and don’t know how to just be bored. They seem to require a constant stream of entertainment and must always be “switched on.” I’m a parent and my two can be like this, so not judging anyone.