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Hobby Dating Gen Z Is Swapping Apps for Trivia Nights and Bird Walks
Hobby dating Gen Z style is booming: Eventbrite trivia nights up 403%, birdwatching meetups up 131%, as dating app burnout pushes singles toward shared pastimes.
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Soft Hermitting Gen Z: Staying In Is a Budget, Not a Retreat
Soft hermitting Gen Z survey data from PapersOwl finds 77% of Americans aged 18 to 28 turn down plans to stay home — and 61% of those who enjoy missing out say it saves money, not that it heals burnout.
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Halloween Costume Trends 2026: Unicorns, Witches and a Record $13.5 Billion
Halloween costume trends 2026 split three ways: Google searches crown a horror unicorn, shoppers plan witches and Spider-Man, and stores push KPop Demon Hunters — all inside a record $13.5 billion Halloween.
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No-Carve Pumpkin Decorating Ideas Are Taking Over Halloween Porches
No-carve pumpkin decorating ideas — gems, paint and pressed flowers on an uncut pumpkin — are this Halloween's porch default, driven by injury figures, longer life and one honest question about where the pumpkin ends up.
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Why is Gen Z drinking less: sober dates, savings and a contested label
Why is Gen Z drinking less? A 24 October survey of 766 adults aged 21 to 29 puts health first, money second and sober dates ahead of cocktails — yet IWSR says 74% of legal-age Gen Z still drink.
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Gen Z phone-free experiences: ‘real is the new premium’ in a 2026 poll
Gen Z phone-free experiences are rising as a 2026 Quad and Harris Poll report finds nearly half of Gen Z drained by scrolling — and a separate Minted survey shows paper and human-made work gaining value.
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The Winter Arc October Reset: Why Gen Z Starts the Year Three Months Early
The winter arc October reset swaps a January scramble for two or three small habits started now — what the survey data and the explainers say about why it sticks.
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Halloween Spending 2026 Hits a Record While Shoppers Hunt for Ways to Pay Less
Halloween spending 2026 is forecast at a record $13.5 billion, yet per-person budgets barely moved and many shoppers are starting early, reusing decorations and financing costumes to cope.
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The Club People Join Now Meets at 6 A.M. and Serves Coffee After
Running is in what one race director calls its third boom — 1.1 million people entered the London Marathon lottery for 59,000 places — and the run club, not the race, is where much of the social life happens.
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Ten Years Back: How 2016 Became 2026’s Favourite Year
Chokers, bomber jackets, pink filters and a Zara Larsson song from a decade ago. The "2026 is the new 2016" revival has run all year — and what people say they miss is not the year itself, but an internet that felt shared.