One of the most fun things you could do back in the ‘80s and ‘90s was take your friends or family (or both) on an extravagant trip to the Caribbean. Other popular fun activities included a great game of golf, or a visit to your local theme park or zoo. With today’s instant entertainment, sensational news cycles, higher work hours and lack of marriages, it’s no wonder that millennials are ditching the whole “outside” activities thing almost entirely.
While many Instagram influencers use cruises and trips as a way to appear cool and make their fans think they’re happy people, most of their followers would be hard-pressed to find any reason to leave their homes in general. Today’s generation is just much less fond of traveling and going on adventures, which might be why fantasy films are on the rise, while adventure films are practically gone.
Millennials Are Not Into Golfing
Golf is one of America's favorite pastimes. The rich and famous love to golf, your parents and grandparents love to golf, even most presidents are known for golfing a few times every week. The problem with this sport when it comes to millennials comes from two different reasons.
First, millennials simply can’t afford to golf anymore. It’s one of the more expensive pastimes you can have, and when most millennials spend their last dollars on rent and food, there’s not much if anything left for golfing. The second problem with golf is that it’s simply too slow and boring for today’s generation. Our attention spans are severely shorter than that of the previous generation.
Bye Bye Regular Milk
When our parents went to the grocery store to buy milk, they bought classic cow milk. The market was practically limited to the options of either nonfat, whole or two percent milk, with only a tiny fringe of alternative products. Nowadays, any food store you walk into will contain everything from almond milk to soy milk and just about every other type of vegan milk you can think of.
Millennials today are becoming increasingly vegan, or at least opting to avoid dairy and go for more natural forms of milk. While this transition has been linked to higher levels of estrogen, it’s clear that the trend is only going to continue in the coming years. Milk sales are already down almost 50% since the ‘70s, and meat is also seeing a massive decline in the past decade, as soy products become more and more popular.
Casual Dining Restaurants Are Devoid of Millennials
Today’s generation has very different habits when it comes to eating. They prefer to either eat a precooked meal, order something off of Uber Eats or Seamless, or go to a fancy restaurant or Starbucks and blow the last bit of money they have left after loan payments and rent. Many of the classic casual restaurants, such as TGI Friday’s and Applebee’s, are becoming strangely devoid of the presence of millennials, as they do their best to avoid these locations.
Market Studies reports that sales at casual dining restaurants have been in serious decline in the past few years. While many of these brands and establishments are doing their best to woo millennials back into their restaurants, their efforts have largely been unsuccessful. It seems that there’s something unique about the millennial mind, where the more you try to appeal to them - the less they want to participate.
They Donate a Lot Less Money to Churches
This generation is a lot more atheistic, and a lot less charitable when it comes to donations. Most of today’s social fabric has been relegated to the United States government, with public services such as Food Stamps and Medicare taking the lead instead of the community or the church.
Millennials also don’t really know their neighbors anymore, which is largely due to the fact that they move every other year or so. This causes them to be a lot more focused on spending money on themselves and is in turn a leading factor of the record loneliness rates among young people today.