Two years ago I quit wearing a smartwatch and went back to my mechanical watches. Since then I've been watching the wrists of people my age and have seen a reduction in watches with screens to more traditional watches.

Have you noticed this or have you made the switch yourself?

This was a massive thing in the US - I remember a home makeover show focused on this, as well as articles from the CDC and weather channel. I'd love to hear about others who remember this too.

Back during the Y2K era I spent a small fortune on makeup. It was insane how I was exclusively purchasing MAC and it was so expensive!! Who else did this???

Anyway, there was a lipstick I absolutely loved. It was like a peachy pinky colored lipstick. It was the perfect shade. I was trying to find it online, but I can’t. I can’t remember the name. I posted a photo of a reference the color family it’s in. If anybody can remember some discontinued, Mac lipsticks from the Y2K era that looked kind of like the one I posted in the photo. Can you post that name in the comments? Thank you in advance. I need to revive that color into my make up kit.

I grew up with a dog and we always loved and treated her extremely well (especially at the time) but I think times have changed a lot and even my parents comment on how differently they treat and much more they spend on their current dog compared to our childhood one (and feel bad about it). I view my own dog like a child and there is nothing and no amount i wouldn’t spend on him.

I feel like our generation really changed the norm and I love that for us.

Can we all agree that The Faculty is the de facto Millennial cult classic of our generation? Let's do a quick rundown:

Elijah Wood

Josh Hartnett

Jordana Brewster

Usher

JOHN FUCKING STEWART

The guy that played the T1000

Edit: Also Shooter McGavin and Salma Hayek

This movie has it all. Not to mention the intro music is a song by The Offspring.

Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer can fuck off, they pale in comparison to... The Faculty

I figure I better start doing something soon because drinking water and genetics can only take me so far! I have sensitive dry skin and don’t do anything to it except wash my face and put on whatever lotion I have that won’t make my face angry.
If you can’t tell, I’m not really interested in anything too involved but I could squeeze in something before my makeup routine and something before bed but not a 27 step program or anything.

I had an Aladdins Castle near me. I kept finding tokens in my stuff for like 12 years after it closed.

I think arcades are all digital now

I was able to play this game last night on an emulator. You all will be happy to know i protected Shady Glen from the Master of Mischief!

Or is this still a thing on current keyboards? I know it's so random, but I remember this being a common thing instead of 'Enter', or some keyboards had both in some way!

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At the request of u/MagicianDue6103 from this post- we want to see your unhinged or failed or spectacular childhood Halloween (or whatever event/holiday) costumes in the comments.

I will start. This is me as the “Princess” Beanie Baby made to honor Princess Diana’s passing in third grade. You would open my tag and see my mom’s hand written cursive text matching the real tag.

Next photo is me in preschool as Zorro from the 1957 television series Zorro.

Please don’t leave me here as the one weird kid. Please share your evidence.

Anyways: Happy Halloween from the violent death turned collectible toy turned sleep paralysis demon!

u/Password-is-Tac0 was the first to call me a sleep paralysis demon.

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Based on the comments on my original comment: people did not believe that I was a 3rd grader. That’s the magic of makeup folks! But here is additional evidence.

The third image is of the back of the photo showing the development date of winter 1999 making this photo of Halloween 1998. I was born in 1989 making me 9 and in 3rd grade.

The fourth image is of me at the chalkboard in 2nd grade. You can see the date written on the board. You can see the differences in height.

The fifth image is dated as “summer 1998” by my grandmother. My brother had ended 4th grade and I had finished 2nd grade not long before that pic.

The 6th image is dated as developed July 1998 so I imagine this was the reeducation ceremony for Girl Scouts the spring before. You can see how when I was on equal footing I was the same height as my friend’s mom. You can also see how I am a cryptid.

I was wearing a size 12 shoe by 7th grade and I think that is when I hit my full height of 5’10”. My mom was 5’11”, my dad is 6’1” with size 15 shoe, and my brother’s mug shot says he is 6’3”. My dad’s parents thought that he was going to be the tallest of their 3 sons because of his feet size but he was still the runt of the litter. I think my eldest uncle was 6’5” I think.

I promise I was in third grade!

Do you remember it? A 2-minute ad, aired simultaneously in 190 countries on November 1st 1999, to celebrate the automotive company that at the time was the 2nd largest in the world.

Huge production, huge budget, etc etc, but that’s only a small part of it. If you watch it, I think you can experience that feeling of confidence in the future we used to have, at least in the western world.

Then the new millennium actually arrived and ... well we all know how it went down. Anyway, this is one of my favorite time capsules ever.

Unless you were living on the moon in 1998, you couldn’t avoid hearing the song “Sex and Candy.” It was everywhere. The song was so popular the band actually had an accountant dedicated to managing the revenue generated by that tune alone. The band still collects decent royalties from it. Hell, even Maroon 5 recorded a popular cover.

Sadly, everyone now remembers them as a one-hit wonder. It was the hit that doomed the band because, let’s face it, they were never going to live up to that level of commercial success and cultural significance. In fact, very few artist could match that performance going forward. From what I read, the band has similar feelings about their success stemming from “Sex and Candy.”

It’s worth going back and listening to that whole self-titled album. It’s a banger—“Poppies,” “Saint Joe on the School Bus,” “Sherry Fraser,” “Opium” were all great songs. But the group was relegated to one-hit wonder status even before the new millennium. They released their sophomore album in 1999, but hardly anyone noticed. Same goes for their subsequent records. And while they continued to tour—and apparently still do—you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who is familiar with anything in their catalog beyond “Sex and Candy.”

I think they deserve a proper revival.

A recent new one for me is how much small print there is everywhere, especially when there's absolutely no reason for it to be so tiny. 

Sorry if that headline felt like clickbait, does anyone struggle to find the energy or the will to make themselves food? So you end up living off of takeout or fast food? I can cook okay, but I struggle to get myself to make food at home. Part of it may be years ago I stopped being able to have dairy and now I have a difficult time figuring out what to make that doesn’t involve milk or cheese, but I’ve been this way a lot of my life, I think.

She is sitting on a VS Pink bag lol. Note the tag protector! Pretty sure we had like five of these back in the day.

I have recently gotten back into journaling. One of the things I like to do, is when I get a fortune from a fortune cookie that really speaks to me; I tape it in my journal and then write my reflection on how/why I found that relevant. And so, this led me to create a section of my journal full of my favorite quotes that I can refer back to.

So, I am just curious if anybody has a quote tattooed on themselves, a post it note on the mirror or just a mental note they go back Rob of a quote that really impacted you, and wanted to hear your story.

As an ADHD Millennial, I struggle with being in the present moment, so whenever I need to pull myself away from a distraction and back into the present, I think of a quote Sal Vulcano said on his Podcast “Hey, Babe”. He was definitely quoting someone else, but there is something comforting about hearing it in his voice, but the quote was “it’s called the present, because it’s a gift”, and it is so simple, and cliché, but I find it really helps me sometimes.

In 2008 and I was an engineering student in college. The scholarship I relied on had been revoked and I was rapidly going broke. My grades were sinking, my health was deteriorating, and felt like I was on the verge of giving up on my dreams and dropping out.

I was listening to Hide Nothing by Further Seems Forever. Lyrically, the album explores themes of hope, faith, overcoming circumstances, letting go of the past, and growing spiritually. I remember these words from the opening track:

And all these bad dreams
I wake up to the light
And when I can't see
I wake up to your eyes

Wake me up
There's a light up ahead

I kept telling myself "there's a light up ahead, keep pushing!" I had the worst semester grade-wise, but miraculously, I passed every class. The following semester, I got a massive windfall of financial aid, and a full scholarship that I rode until graduation. My knee injury healed, I lost massive amounts of weight, and I became the first person in my family to graduate from college.

Listening to this album instantly takes me back to those dark days, but instead of dwelling on the misery, I'm grateful that I overcame the odds.

What about you?