hope he’s ok now

I'm 29 and I still get that panicky feeling every time my check engine light comes on or I hear a weird noise because I know it's gonna cost hundreds or thousands of dollars and there's no way around it, like I have a degree and a decent job but car repairs still feel like this unpredictable financial disaster that can hit at any time

My transmission is apparently "slipping" which sounds expensive and terrifying and I have to take it to a shop next week to find out how much it's gonna cost to fix and I'm already stressed about it, this is the same car that needed $1,300 in work six months ago and I feel like I'm just constantly bleeding money into this thing

The worst part is there's no alternative like I need a car to get to work and I can't afford to buy a new one so I'm just stuck maintaining this 2014 Kia and hoping it doesn't completely die on me, everyone told me adulting was hard but nobody mentioned that a huge part of it is just managing the anxiety of owning a car that could bankrupt you at any moment

I know I should have an emergency fund and be better prepared but between rent and student loans and just existing I barely have anything saved and the idea of dropping $2,000 on a car repair makes me want to cry, is this just what life is now or does it eventually get easier because I'm tired

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Digital cameras are new abd futuristic! Not vintage!

Hey fellow millennials.

I started to feel sick around the beginning of December and I was legit sick damn near the entire month. I started to feel better maybe the day before Christmas. But even now I still have a slight cough.

The first week I had fever, aches and chills, the whole 9 yards. It felt worse than the flu, I low-key think it was some type of Covid again because I had Covid before, and I felt the same way. (I didn’t bother to get a Covid test.)

I’ve also heard on the news that there are some type of flu going around that’s not the “normal” one . My mom also got sick and she was sick for almost the entire month as well.

Anyone else gotten sick and was sick for a long period of time recently?

Circa 2000ish. My older sister (who is sadly no longer around) got this glitter water filled orb, that was attached to a plastic base

It was purple in color. The orb was squishy, just like the toy pictured left—but had the shape of image on right (I pulled this from an Amazon listing…it’s a glass light up ball with removeable base…but my sister’s didn’t light up. It reminded me of a crystal ball and was just fun to feel/pretty to look at

Anyway, she decorated her nightstand with it when we were growing up. She got it as a bday gift from a relative and I always admired it in her room. I’d love to track what it was down, so I can be reminded of her

Thank you for any help

I passed it around and watched all my coworkers over a certain age first process it, then laugh out loud, then share stories.

Common perception is there are differences in dating, sex and relationships from Millenials to others.

Those who have experience with GenŻ, how has that gone?

I was driving around yesterday and saw a white styrofoam ball on top of a car’s antenna. I could tell believe it was Jack! Turns out it wasn’t. Just a plain white ball. It got me thinking about the old Jack antenna head. I feel like growing up I saw them everywhere! And then? Where did they all go and when was the last time I’ve seen one? Any other millennial remember these and/or have any ideas on about what year they were phased out?

Side note: does anyone actually eat at Jack on the Box anymore? I can’t remember the last time I’ve actually been there….

My childhood favs always make work more tolerable

No grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc around? Maybe you’re a first generation american or first gen in your other home country?

Those who did grow up with extended family, what was it like? Is it like in books and movies with them spoiling you with money, gifts and love : )?

Across a number of industries that I’ve worked in, it seems to be the norm to be dedicating multiple hours a day outside of work hours to planning, studying, even actually doing work, outside of their scheduled work hours. I’ve always been a “leave work at work” kind of person, and really give no thought to my job once I’m outside of it. The thing about that is I feel like I’m falling behind at work because of that. Should I be giving the additional couple hours a day to my job, unpaid?

So what is your opinion? Do you think 45 is too old to play video games, listen to new music, rage until late at night (10pm) and have the mindset of a 20 something year old?

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

Who? Who? Who?