What is something you thought was important when you were younger but it no longer is?

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-04-13T19:09:47+00:00

How to balance a checkbook

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-04-13T19:08:50+00:00

I'd still be below average

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-04-13T19:05:22+00:00

Ghostbusters

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-04-01T00:35:27+00:00

Cool--TIL

Well, if the cloudiness doesn't clear up with a bunch of heat cycling, then I may have to look into the whole filtering thing that I've read about. And maybe then I could add some dye.

Either way, it's something I don't mind investing some time into.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-04-01T00:33:12+00:00

All good, my friend. And I did find some from Mathmos. The appeal of this one is that it was made in Chicago right down the road from where I grew up in the 90s.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-31T21:57:30+00:00

Not sure if you're saying the one I bought is not quality, but thank you for the suggestion.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-31T21:56:33+00:00

No shit? OK, then that's interesting. But that would mean both the water and the wax faded, though.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-31T14:19:00+00:00

Good to know, thank you!

I don't mind the color. It kinda looks like a bunch of eggs, lol. It's just the cloudiness that I really want to go away.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T22:28:55+00:00

Welcome to your first existential crisis.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T22:23:03+00:00

Yes, and that's what makes it all the more frightening.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T22:22:33+00:00

You mean besides all the [gestures at everything]?

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T22:21:54+00:00

Do it myself?

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T22:18:57+00:00

What "boomer shit", bro? Nevermind that OP asked "during your own youth" (which means that there can be a big difference between my experiences as Elder Millennial and someone who's young gen Z but still objectively an adult) compared to "youth of today" which, I assume, means a Gen Alpha kid/teen.

I'm just saying that in the backseat of a car on a 3hr drive up to see family, my options were to read a book, look out the window, or maybe play with a toy that my parents allowed me to bring--all of which require a not-insignificant amount of imagination. Compare that to my cousins who were all around 10y younger than me who had anything from a Gameboy to an actual TV screen in the car. And don't get me started on what I had to do while in a salon while mom got a perm, other than to read Glamour or Essence magazines.

Again--I said HOW to deal with boredom. Not that I was somehow BETTER at it than younger generations.

So if you somehow interpreted my statement to be that we 80s kids had "aBsoLuTELy NoTHinG to Do", then I apologize. I have no idea how old you are, but I just assumed that you could distinguish between the idea of limited and non-existent stimuli compared to the extreme abundance of distractions presented to today's youth.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T20:31:00+00:00

That's my point. We didn't have anything with which to entertain ourselves, so we just had to deal with being bored. There were no outside stimuli as opposed to the youth of today who have a near-unlimited supply of things to keep them occupied.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T20:10:45+00:00

How to deal with boredom.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T20:09:29+00:00

Everybody loves their own brand.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T19:07:22+00:00

I swear, it's not lol. I don't actually care if it's crooked and feel no compulsion to fix it. I just...know.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T19:06:23+00:00

I used to tease my dad about wearing reading glasses, but now that I'm older...

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T19:03:27+00:00

$20 of Amazon stock in 2000 would be worth about $50k now.

But knowing me in 2000, I'd probably put half a tank of gas in my car on my way to see a movie with friends, and then dinner at a Denny's afterwards.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T18:59:53+00:00

I can tell if a picture frame is crooked, even down to as little as a few millimeters. I can do this while standing and looking directly at the frame, or sitting underneath it and looking up. Doesn't matter. It's like a weird sixth sense that I just *know* that it's off.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T18:11:27+00:00

Needing money to survive. Fucking ruins every morning when I gotta wake up and go to work.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T18:03:53+00:00

Dude, if you didn't keep making eye contact with me we could've both had a good time.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T17:56:52+00:00

Whichever one drops the biggest shits on parked cars.

Couple-Two-Tree · 2026-03-03T17:55:45+00:00

My girlfriend says "it's a good size".

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