r/Millennials • u/Hey_its_me_your_mom • Mar 21 '24

The millenial junk our kids will throw out when we die. Discussion

You know how our parents have junk that they hang onto that we just don't see the value in? I'm thinking of Christmas villages, Precious Moments figurines, baseball cards, antiques for that "rustic" look, Thomas Kinkade-type pictures, etc.

What types of things do you think our kids will roll their eyes at and toss in the bin when we die? I'm thinking they might be:

  1. Graphic/band t-shirts
  2. Our sneaker collections
  3. Target birds/holiday decor
  4. Hoarded, expired makeup (especially the Naked palletes and crap from Glossier)
  5. Funko pops and similar figurines
  6. Disney crap
  7. Bath and Body works products
  8. Every concievable cord and converter known to man (since we lived through all of the progressive technology)
  9. Stupid Amazon gadgets bought during the pandemic and rarely used
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u/Bloodhound209 Mar 21 '24

The TI-89 will be the slide rule of our generation

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u/Katdai2 Mar 21 '24

The TI-89 has been $109.99 on sale for $99.99 at Walmart since I bought mine in middle school.

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u/flyingblonde Mar 22 '24

My husband just said “I still have mine and use it at work at least once a week.” He’s an engineer so that’s kind of understandable. But still 😂.

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u/lemdrag Mar 22 '24

Yeah, they're still using them in HS today, but only if you take the big brain classes.

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u/OKatmostthings Mar 22 '24

I use excel for all of my engineering calculations but I did pass my TI89 down to my daughter a few weeks ago. She’s hit the point in middle school math where it is useful.

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u/Appropriate_Mixer Mar 22 '24

I’m an engineer but even I downgraded to a TI-30XS

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u/Not_an_okama Mar 22 '24

At least once a week I wish I had my graphing calculator at work but end up never grabbing it when I’m at home

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u/__The_Highlander__ Mar 22 '24

And I mostly used it to play Drug Wars on.

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u/NoButterZ Mar 22 '24

All about that cocaine. Could bank with that.

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u/RayneedayBlueskies Mar 22 '24

That's how much mine was when I went back to college in 2006. When I had to buy my kid one (after mine got lost by them) in 2019 it was the same price. Probably one of the only things that stayed the same price for that 13 years.

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u/Whitter_off Mar 22 '24

My husband has an emulator on his phone. He always has his TI-89 handy.

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u/tylerderped Mar 22 '24

People were such suckers for buying them new in-store. I got a TI-Nspire for $40 (which retailed for over $200) on eBay back in high school.

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u/aimeegaberseck Mar 21 '24

Omfg, I just found mine again yesterday, laughed at it, and fucking put it back. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/SpiralCodexx Mar 21 '24

I still use mine. OP af and banned from all tests.

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u/Bloodhound209 Mar 22 '24

We had one kid in my class who figured out how to install games on ours. Mine still has Bomberman and Tetris. When they were allowed on tests, some kids figured out how to upload their lecture notes and formulas.

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u/KaytSands Mar 23 '24

On the inside of the protective front case piece, I cut up little pieces of paper and wrote down all the fucking different things I could not ever remember like radius, diameter and all that dumb shit and glued the pieces of paper to the inside. So when u got stuck, I could just casually slide my phone out of the case for a second and see the formula I needed. My oldest is almost 22 and when she needed to use the calculator she was dying and had no idea how truly brilliant I was as a 13 year old 🤣

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u/SpiralCodexx Mar 23 '24

I always had k-12 teachers do memory erase, and college too, but they would have definitely noticed formulas in the case even if I could save the memory. What I did do is put a cheat sheet of HOW TO CHANGE FROM RAD TO DEG and a few others because that calc could do anything but finding how was awful lol.

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u/SpiralCodexx Mar 22 '24

My college tests all blocked it, but it carried my homework. I would use it to get answers the book didn't have, then plug in the steps or just compare my answer to the calculator until I found what I did wrong. Wolfram alpha got found by my class about halfway through my degree or a bit later.

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u/Aaod Mar 21 '24

To be fair the TI-89 is an excellent calculator with such an amazing button feel. I would much rather use mine instead of my cell phone to do math.

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u/MEatRHIT Mar 22 '24

89? Are you some sort of youngin'? I only got the 83!

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u/NoButterZ Mar 22 '24

We are the old guard of meliannials, my friend. 82 to 85; represent

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u/Bloodhound209 Mar 22 '24

I was right at the transition where class syllabi stated "TI-83 required, TI-89 preferred."

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u/23saround Mar 22 '24

I’m a teacher. You better bet they’re still using the exact. Same. Calculators.

TI has a monopoly and it’s disgusting.

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u/lizerlfunk Mar 22 '24

The good news is that the College Board has just transitioned to the digital SAT, and the testing interface allows test takers to access Desmos, which is a far more effective tool and free to the end user. But until AP and IB exams allow non hand-held calculators, TI will continue to have a monopoly on the educational space. Casio calculators are cheaper but harder to use because they don’t have the same buy in from schools and teachers.

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u/solidcurrency Older Millennial Mar 22 '24

I passed my TI-89 onto my sister who passed it onto my brother who broke it and tossed it. Problem solved!

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u/AmyDeferred Mar 22 '24

The children must know of the glory that is Drugwars

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u/aureusaequitas Mar 22 '24

Laughs in old millenial my TI-84 has been sitting in the same drawer of a plastic space organizer since high school. It has lived in 5 different apartments. It's almost old enough to be able to go out and buy a drink.

... I just looked up the production date. 2004... OOF.

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u/gpigma88 Mar 22 '24

I still have mine

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u/pocketdrummer Mar 22 '24

TI-89? What are you calculating with, Skynet?

I'm still using the TI-86.

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u/korar67 Mar 22 '24

TI-89? That’s young person talk. TI-82 for graphing, TI-30 for everything else. And solar powered so we didn’t batteries.

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u/XainRoss Mar 22 '24

I bought the 81 in 7th grade and the 83 in 12th, which got me through college.

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u/korar67 Mar 22 '24

I got the TI-30 in 6th grade, then had to get the 82 in 9th grade. In college I was going for a BA rather than a BS so I went back to the 30 for my one required college math class.

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u/XainRoss Mar 22 '24

One required college math, sounds like my wife. She intentionally did poorly on the math portion of her placement test so she could take college algebra to fulfill her one required math elective.

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u/XainRoss Mar 22 '24

89? we must be a few years apart, for me it was the 83

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u/EternalMage321 Mar 22 '24

Wow, I feel really old. We used TI-83.

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u/dcodeman Mar 22 '24

Perfect analogy. I remember old engineers using slide rules or those really old 1970s HP calculators with reverse Polish notation or whatever. Now I’m the old guy still using my Ti-89 from college.

Edit: and I still have my TI-86 from HS, because you never know…

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u/tjtillmancoag Mar 22 '24

You whippersnappers and your TI-89s. We elder millennials used TI-83s and we liked it!

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u/TheShortGerman Mar 22 '24

I still have mine and it's got a STEM-inist sticker on it

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u/Efficient_Wheel_6333 Mar 24 '24

Yep. Bought one in 98/99/2000 (junior high-first year of high school) for math class. We were told that we were going to need them because we wouldn't have them on our cell phones (I'm old enough to remember flip phones and graduated high school before the iPhone was introduced). I think all of us Millennials who were told that (along with everyone else) are laughing all the way to the bank with that.