r/Xennials • • 17d ago

The weekly health and wellness thread

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Use this thread to contribute topics related to your own health and wellness or health and wellness-related topics of general interest to xennials. Contributions should be on-topic, offered in good faith, respectful and follow all other subreddit rules, but pretty much anything goes otherwise. Feel free to share experiences, ask questions, vent, celebrate achievements, or provide updates to previous contributions. This thread will refresh weekly.

Per Rule 9, health and wellness-related topics are allowed in this thread only. Standalone health and wellness posts are subject to removal. Please refrain from submitting memes or meta discussions to this thread.


r/Xennials • • Sep 07 '26

New subscriber welcome center (Week of September 07, 2026): Introduce yourself here!

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Welcome, new Xennials! Did you just find the subreddit? Just now learn that you’re a Xennial?! Is it suddenly all making sense? We know this feeling! Feel free to introduce yourself here.

Since we get thousands of new subscribers per month, we kindly ask that introductions go in this thread rather than as top-level posts.


r/Xennials • • 3h ago

Nostalgia Does this 'dance' that Phil Collins does here have a name? (1990 live tour)

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r/Xennials • • 17m ago

Nostalgia Anyone else had clown balloon lamp?

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r/Xennials • • 2h ago

Nostalgia Our brains would have exploded: “Ethan Hawke tells Drew Barrymore that he can’t believe they never dated in the ’90s”

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154 Upvotes

What a dream couple


r/Xennials • • 10h ago

When it's 30+ night at the club and you need Multi-Factor Authentication screen people at the door

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r/Xennials • • 3h ago

Went out for breakfast in this bad boy...

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Have a good relationship with one of the waiters and it went like this:

Him: "oh that's sick!"

Me: excited he knows what The Crow is "Thanks man! Definitely OG!"

Him: "what's it from"

Me: shake my head in sadness and old

Edit: I also have a few Crow tattoos that I'm realizing now I'd have to fully explain. My shame is boundless.


r/Xennials • • 5h ago

Cause inside out is wiggida, wiggida, wiggida wack! Did you ever get Krossed Out?

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r/Xennials • • 58m ago

Discussion A good cardboard box.

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With all of the social, political, and economic upheaval both domestically and abroad, and all else affecting us both mentally and physically, I must ask…

Isn’t it just really really difficult to justify throwing out a very good-quality cardboard box? You might could need it and use it eventually, am I right? What are we doing with our premo cardboard boxes? I might be high on this Sunday, but so is my stack of nice, thick, sharp-cornered cardboard boxes in the attic. Stacked up like nesting dolls just waiting for something not currently inside of a good cardboard box to go inside of a good cardboard box.


r/Xennials • • 20h ago

Best 3 seconds of your life

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r/Xennials • • 2h ago

Taking the L

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So, this may be a long shot, but my Xennial husband and I are watching a TV show that takes place in Chicago, and there is, inevitably, a scene that prominently displays the “L train” or “elevated train.”

I turned to my husband and explained that every time I see that train in the context of Chicago, I instantly think of The Fugitive. He said he does the same.

It was a crucial discovery that furthered the plot, and, for two people from very different backgrounds, it was still novel enough to both of us (one from the South and one from the west) that it really seared into our brains.

Anyone else afflicted with the “L train” Fugitive intrusive thoughts?


r/Xennials • • 6h ago

Nostalgia He-Man 1986 Parade!

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r/Xennials • • 19h ago

No Snitching 🚫 The Fate Of The World Could Be At Stake…

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r/Xennials • • 9h ago

Discussion What have you nixed from your life as you have gotten older?

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Xennials are all in their 40’s now.

Name something you have removed from your life since your youth.


r/Xennials • • 2h ago

We should bring web rings back

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Now that we can all spin up websites with Ai so easily we should all focus on building our own sites and then just link to each other. Forego Facebook or other accounts and just manicure your own place.


r/Xennials • • 10h ago

Nostalgia Sand pets... anyone?

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I just had a sudden flashback of a frog filled with sand that I used to have. Its toe had a little hole in it, so I had it taped up so it wouldn't leak sand everywhere. Anyone else remember these things?

Photo borrowed from an old Etsy listing.


r/Xennials • • 4h ago

ODB McDonald’s commercial

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Is it cracking anyone else up hearing INCREDIBLY inappropriate songs from our youth used in commercials now? Like did anyone approving this listen to the lyrics? There was I think an Apple ad using the Pixie’s Gigantic a few years ago that killed me.


r/Xennials • • 18h ago

Nostalgia Cause I’m keeping it real. Cause I’m keeping it real. Cause I’m keeping it real.

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507 Upvotes

I’m calling your mother


r/Xennials • • 21h ago

Nostalgia I finally got one!

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705 Upvotes

I’ve been wanting a plasma orb since the 90s when I saw one at Spencer’s.


r/Xennials • • 22h ago

Nostalgia Who else played this incredible DOOM ripoff and its sequel?

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810 Upvotes

I think about this game at least once every other week, still to this day. I’d love to find a way to play it again.


r/Xennials • • 2h ago

“Desmondo Jose Ruiz”? Where you at, Desmondo?

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I. Don’t. Bargain.


r/Xennials • • 17h ago

Discussion What would you have been doing on a Saturday in October 1999?

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Instead of October 2026?


r/Xennials • • 23h ago

Some of us had an Uncle like this at Christmas...

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r/Xennials • • 3h ago

Need a 80s movie recommendation

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To show my 12 year old nephew. A quintessential movie representative of the 80s. Has a solid 80s soundtrack, stars someone at the top of their game and the plot is not a fantasy or sci-fi but includes depiction of real (or semi-real) life in the 80s.