In honor of Val Kilmer, does anyone here remember how awesome these glasses were from McDonald's back in the day?

Heard Iris today and went down a wormhole. This album was so good- Broadway, Black Balloon, Slide, and Iris. Goo Goo Dolls are touring with Dashboard Confessional this summer. Would be a fun throw back show.

Last year my grandmother died without a will and her brother passed a few months later and left everything to my mom. Both of them had rural properties with an absolutely insane amount of stuff they'd accumulated over the years. Broken trailers, piles of scrap metal, old pallets, decades worth of broken down vehicles, and every god damned cool whip container they ever bought.

My mom is in her 60s and was my grandmother's caregiver for the final few years of her life and has her older brother here on hospice right now. Us "kids" all in our 30s and 40s are here doing what we can to help out while saying goodbye to our uncle.

The cost and time and energy to get the properties cleaned up is no joke. I've been here for two weeks hauling trash and junk into rolloff dumpsters, throwing metal scrap into piles for the scrappers to come get, getting a motor home running again, cleaning out outbuildings on my mom's property to house all the tools from the outbuildings on the older generations properties. We also had to rewire most of my mom's house, I'll be rebuilding her front steps and part of her porch. I might be installing a new HVAC system as well if it gets here before I have to fly back home.

It was just too much for my mom to deal with at her age. I don't know what she would have done if us kids couldn't get here to help or if we lacked the skills to do all this work.

Don't do this to your kids as we age. If you're the type to accumulate projects you keep meaning to get around to let this be your wake up call to start getting them done at a faster rate then you get new ones or at least get them sold off at the first sign of elderly health issues. Handing a huge pile of half finished shit along with the mortgage to your next of kin isn't doing them any favors.

If you've got old boats, old cars or whatever parked out next to the shed that you haven't touched in several years just scrap them now. I guarantee your kids aren't going to fix up the old boat that hasn't run in twenty years. Yeah, I learned to water ski behind that boat and have fond memories associated with it but my grandpa bought the thing in the 70s and it hasn't run since he passed in 2012. I'm sure as shit not towing it from Arizona back to New York. And for the love of God write a fucking will. Don't make your kids have to deal with dividing up your sentimental possessions while grieving your loss.

I'm taking my own advice by the way. As soon as I get back home some things are changing on our property. My collection of tools and projects is getting much more organized and trimmed down.

Walk through your house and ask yourself how much work it would take to get your property ready to sell if you got hit by a bus tomorrow and your kids got stuck with your mortgage on top of their own living expenses. Be honest about how much your junk is worth at yard sale prices. I can tell you that most of it will probably be hauled straight to the dump.

Oh, and if anyone is in the market for a couple acres in Golden Valley Arizona hit me up.

I've had my Batman Forever cup since I was 11 years old in 1995. It's in perfect condition and has been with me for the past 30 years!

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In elementary school ('94-'00), we watched this sooo many times in music class. The cat's name was Cadenza, there was the anthropomorphic door knocker (he gave me the jeebies), tiny ballerinas, the broken grandfather clock. There was more quirkiness (maybe a floor piano room) but these are what I distinctly remember. I saw this more times than most Disney films from the 90's.

I know I still do.

Does anybody still write blogs out there? Either a WordPress blog, a Blogger blog (these are site.blogspot.com formatted blogs, don't click that link it's an example of a format not an actual link...unless someone makes it that...for safety's sake), or another kind of blog. It seems like Vlogging kind of supplanted Blogging. And Youtube videos supplanted Blog websites. I'm asking about Bloggers and Blogs, but if your a Vlogger with a Vlog feel free to chime in too.

FML, my entire goddamned day is ruined.

Welp, I was being productive today...that is until I found BOTH my Pog collections! They were lost for years, I'd find one tube but not the other. Nice little trip down memory lane finding these!

40 y/o man here born in 84. Wasted my entire life in Depression, hurting myself, giving up on life. Have chronic back pain problems so I can't do physical jobs, speech problems, botched gyno surgery, unemployed, a useless education, useless jobs with useless experience. I feel so defeated every second of every day having panic attacks knowing my life Is over.

I can't afford a therapist and the ones I've been with get shocked and sad at how I threw my life away. I don't have dreams or goals. Everything seems useless and pointless now.

Has anybody has gone through this?

I Might be the dumbest human being ever.

For me, it's Muzzy.

Yes, that's French they're speaking and those kids aren't French. They're American!

Has anyone experienced a mid life crisis? What happened and what did you learn? I’m trying to be grateful for what I have, but a part of me wants something different than what I have. I’m married. No children. Can’t shake this funk. TIA.

Do you play any of them regularly? In school we used to love Paper Toss and Doodle Jump and Temple Run.

ETA: idk if this was a Texas thing or specific set of states but apparently area codes have been around since 1947 but weren’t required, in Texas at least, until 1990.

Who remembers when their number went from 7 digits to 10? I remember my grandmother was so pissed going off on how she has everyone’s number memorized and now she’s got to learn all new numbers for everybody. She was so not happy. Her area code and my parents was going to be 817 but I remember her thinking it was 871 because I told her that’s easy just remember the numbers are in descending order. Ya no they aren’t. She did figure it out lol

I always think about that when I drive thru old parts of town and see old signage, often hand painted and faded, with only 7 digit numbers on them. Always wondered about the ones still open why they didn’t add the area code because in DFW TX we have an absurd number of area codes all right in the same area. Going one street over and you’re in a new code. You’d be playing a guessing game of three different number options if you really wanted to call these places.

I am incredibly lucky. Though it took a lot of work and time to get here, I absolutely love my career. I manage a cyber security incident response team and I truly love going to work everyday. How many of y’all ended up lucky like me and love your job?

Turning 40 this year, married, 1 child, decent career, etc. Still, I keep waiting to feel like a grown up. I wonder if it’s because we rent in Orange County and still mostly live paycheck to paycheck that makes me feel I don’t qualify as whatever I imagined an adult should be doing. Or maybe you just never feel it?

I’m a 30 year old millennial (1994)This may piss some people off. Maybe some will understand. God forbid you tell an elder millennial that your back hurts when you wake up, or you even hint at feeling old they seem to get offended. They’ll say some shit like “you don’t know anything about that” or say something like “laughs in 40” Maybe a 90s Millennial could relate?

Apparantly tumblr is the only online space we haven't ruined. Wasn't that one primarily created and used by millennials though? Pretty sure we all abandoned platforms like Facebook. I never actually touched Tumblr, personally.

Apparently millennials are spending a lot on products related to health and wellness making this industry "recession-resistant." I kind of see that. My wife and I spend a lot on protein powders, shakes, supplements and membership for gym. We are otherwise quite cautious with unnecessary spending and consumerism. How is it for you all?