Nostalgia usually focuses on everything we miss about growing up, but there must be plenty of things we’re actually better off without.
It could be technology, school, work, social habits, everyday inconveniences, trends or something completely trivial.
What disappeared that you definitely wouldn’t bring back?

He's not blonde anymore 😉

Welp. I may have gone overboard with this. Yeah. I did.

This is in response to my post about my ask/request for some of us (or none of us) to chill and virtually watch a movie together - https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/s/LAQm8WSJS3

After finishing watching our first pick (Save the Last Dance) - I started tinkering around with some web tools to try and organize this better.

24 hours later, I built a whole damn site! And had a effing amazing time doing so!! I’m no pro, but I was hitting a stride and couldn’t stop. So here we are.

This is just for fun! It was fun 24 hours ago and will continue to be! I expected nothing out of this, and found that plenty of you are feeling what I’m feeling and just want a good, comfortable, community-based…thing…

I am beyond happy to do this with ya’ll. I love movies. I love real, human-interaction. I love positivity and sharing and enjoying things together. Shit is shitty. Let’s make it less shitty.

Yeah. The site name is goofy and was a 4am, I’m exhausted, choice. But I like it (yo, my username). Lots of us are sad, struggling, stressed. Maybe this will help just a tiny bit? That’s why I made my post in the first place, I’m freaking burned out man. It’s nice to get away for a few hours with a dang movie. Also think of it this way - SAD MOVIE or SAD, MOVIE! (let’s get happy again)

The site: things will be broken probably, it’s a work in progress, it’s probably missing things, it will continue to get better because again, I did this simply for enjoyment and I sure as heck am enjoying it.

Right now: you’ll see some place holder movies which I’ve been using just for testing. Let’s get some real ones in there!

I have things setup the following way:

We nominate movies each week
if you nominate a movie, that also counts as your 1 vote for the week

If you don’t nominate a movie, you can still vote for one of the movies that IS currently nominated

At the end of the week, the site automatically tallies (it’s live data all the time), turns off voting, and the winner remains on the home page with our watch times across all time zones listed and the current streaming platforms available for each movie.

Sunday, We WATCH. I know not everyone can watch at the same time, but, this is kinda the goal so as we can discuss together in real time. Which leads me to my last point…

COMMUNITY (this is the one I’m still working on and want suggestions for) - the whole thing is to watch together. Discuss together. This started on Reddit, this will be home. But we need a live chat platform, and I’ll probably get something integrated into the site…I think…ideas????

Hi. My name is Bryan. And I made a thing for us❤️

https://www.SadMovieClub.com

Nothing with too much morbidity, please.

I am going to throw away aaaallllll their junk. They have a big house, half their garage is brand new free cookware they have still in boxes. Who needs 20 crock pots? (They get it free every time they go on a bus that takes you to the casino and box.) just bc it’s free does t mean you have to take it.

I’m going to throw away a sound system they have from 1991. My dad says, “this was very expensive!” Yeah… I’m sure a sound system was super expensive in 1991. It’s so heavy now, I don’t know how I’ll get rid of it.

Shoes… so many shoes. My mom even still has a faux fur coat from the 1970s. Not only is it out of style, we live in Southern California, mom!

ETA: a few people joking they’ll take the faux fur coat off my hands. It’s from the 1970s. She looks like a madame in it! Haha

I felt like I became an adult after listening the this song for the first time. So emotional and really made me think deeply as a 12 year old.

https://youtu.be/qA1nGPM9yHA

Growing up in the 90s music videos were such a big part of loving music to me. Feels different now even though production quality has become crazy good but I want to know your picks for the best 90s videos. There were some pretty cringy ones so I am curious what you guys would say were awesome then and still hold up now. One that comes to mind for me is the Foo Fighters video for Everlong. Still holds up. Still evokes an emotional response from me.

My family literally saved my life coming to help with my kids. But if my kids are forced to wait until the same age we had to wait until, my husband and I will be in our 80s. It made me sad. Time to get serious about cutting out meat and working out, I guess.

Edit to add: Yikes, I don't care if my kids choose not to have kids. I'm just feeling sad I won't be helpful the way my family was.

Hows life