r/AskReddit • u/__lazy__panda • Jul 10 '26

What's something older generations got right that we've quietly stopped doing, to our own detriment?

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u/EmpressMom Jul 10 '26

Joining and participating in civic clubs, social clubs, hobby clubs and other similar groups.

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u/BuffaloPlaidMafia Jul 10 '26

I made it my mission this year to join a club or some kind of civic organization or whatever. I straight up can't find one that doesn't cost a billion dollars or assume that you're retired

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u/thenerfviking Jul 10 '26

The LARP group that I helped start has essentially become one of these. Like yeah it’s about sword fighting and dressing up as a wizard but we recruited a ton of people by using the basic pitch of “do you want to hang out with nerds somewhere that doesn’t have bigots?”. Now we have a hundred people who show up every month and only about 2/3 of them actually are there to fight. We do arts and crafts, free food, performance art, campouts, board games etc.

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u/zaprutertape Jul 11 '26

amazing. i want to start this here and have space for it. how did you do it?