30 Things Millennials Are Apparently Ruining, As Shared On This Online Community

I'd rather the latter if I'm honest

My dad was born in 1937. The man is McGiver when it comes to fixing and rigging things. He tells us kids he loves us all the times. Yeah, I won the lottery.

I mean, if they really do - that's on boomers - because they raised us. Also - not true, I don't know single one Millennial who would't know how to fix basic home s#it or put up furniture together.

“Millennials didn’t spontaneously develop skills we didn’t bother to teach them!”

Guess who raised millennials and should've taught them those skills...

Yep. Seriously, eff all those brands that use fillers, meat "meals", c**p like corn and wheat gluten as fillers, especially cat foods. And Science Diet and Hills are trash foods, and vets get rich off of pushing them onto their clients.

How dare I feed my cats real chicken and fish when Purina has a perfectly good types of flavoring sawdust that I should feed them.

I'm really glad pet food companies have stepped up in regards to quality. There really were so few options not that long ago. It was either 9 Lives, Friskies or Fancy Feast. And not the upgraded fancy feast they have today.

The vet who supports a rescue organization I work with recommends any high quality commercial dog food. I trust people who actually know what they are talking about.

i don't treat my cats like kids. i don't buy them clothes, i don't teach them morals, i don't have to think about who they're playing with (they are indoor), i don't have to shape them into responsible, compassionate beings. i do make sure they have appropriate toys and play time. i make sure they have food, water, and medical care. i make sure they have high places to go and enough litter boxes. i talk to them and let them know i love them. i let them climb all over me or just lay beside me or across the room. i treat them like cats. very loved cats.

Accurate…though to be honest, the past year has been a veritable mini-baby boom among the nearly-40 millennials i know. A sort of “last chance” effort to have a kid before its “too late.” Or a kind of “fück it, we survived a pandemic, who cares if this makes zero economic sense” kind of energy

I work my a*s off and I still struggle to afford a nice apartment where I live. It is so embarrassing and makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. A stupid studio the size of a shoebox where I currently live is around $2,000 USD (1,600 GBP/ 1,840 Euro). No matter how hard I work I never feel like it is enough. Plus, I feel like even less of woman for for not having children or being married. There is so much pressure anymore to succeed.

Hence the desperation of right-wingers to make abortion and birth control illegal or at least really difficult to get.

We are still adding the entire population of Germany - ~80 million people - each and every year to the population. That growth is unsustainable indefinitely. No idea why all these countries trying to get people to breed like bunnies, but we don't need it. Maybe take care of the kids in foster care and orphanages first. This planet's resources are not infinite.

China, Japan, South Korea and Italy are learning this lesson now.

And yet virtually all new houses are big. We have an enormous need for affordable housing, but no one is building new affordable housing and the existing stock is being snapped up by developers and flipped into something less affordable.

"... but but but everyone owes me my retirement, even if it costs them their future!!!" - Baby Boomers

15 years ago wasn't boomers. They're further back than that.

Not really sure why it's a problem anyway, surely if the house is big enough you rent out by the room? Might take some renovation to get it ready but you could literally make more money renting it to more than one person.

I haven't really seen a lot of houses abandoned because they couldn't be sold. In our market (the middle of the stinking desert) houses don't stay on the market long and generally sell at a premium.

Perfect summation.

I could not have said it any better. The cost of an University education in the United States is absolutely appalling. So many young people are in heaps of debt due to student loans so they can enter a work force where they still don't get paid what they are worth. It is really cruel and I despise ANYBODY who tells these young people: "Well, you were the idiot who chose to take out that huge $100,000 USD loan to go to University for two years. You should have been like me an just got an apprenticeship under their ol' man."

Why do Americans only want to flip burgers?

Job is job and must be able to at least pay rent. The sad thing is it takes three job to pay rent.

Don't worry, AI will soon be doing more and more unskilled labor jobs.

I was lucky that for the first 2 years of my daughters life I had a job where I can pick my hours, and was able to work from home. I changed so many nappies, played with her, was able to be there for her major steps. I would not change it for the world. I work 8-5 now, so spend less time with her, but when I do, I try to make the time quality.

I'm 47 years old, my dad used to change my nappy although he had to do it with a bandanna wrapped around his nose with Old Spice dotted on to it. He'd vomit everywhere otherwise. He also thought he had to iron the terry cloth nappies (I'm that old that disposable ones weren't a big thing when I needed them) after they were washed. My mum was away for a few days in hospital and when she came back he told her he'd ironed the nappies and towels and bed sheets too! lol

43(m) and had my first baby in Jan, I am 100% here for my little girl and I am all the dad she can handle as Im 100% hands on and love her more than anything. She will never doubt her daddy's love and I will always support her. No matter what!! And I've been elbows deep in doo doo! haha

You mean men are parents too?!!! WTF.

This needs to be higher!

Million upvotes!

Nailed it.

10000x this!

As a Gen-X'er I have loved seeing the birth and adaption of the technology age that we live in, but I smart enough to know that it is the Millennials and younger generations that have truly grown up living and breathing this technology. The smart Boomer and Gen-X managers know to give these kids a little bit of guidance and a lot of free range to create - you will be amazed at what they come up with and are willing to take on and manage.

I am a Boomer my son is a Millennial. We do agree on a lot of things but, when we disagree, he is mostly correct.

I didn't know we killed mayonnaise! What happened here?