My Two-Cents: Summer 2025 Ins & Outs
The annual, highly coveted (by my grandma, at least) KT Summer 2025 Ins and Outs has arrived. These are my predictions of the hottest trends of the year’s hottest season. Let’s begin!
Ins
Spreadsheets
Pinterest
Gerrymandering
Not answering your phone for a couple of weeks
It’s time we all go rogue more often
Nature
Small talk with strangers
Email pen pals
Playing catch in the backyard
Handwritten letters
Making cocktails at home
Babe, we got that drink at home! No fr though, 16 for a cocktail we can make at home, in THIS economy?
Lakes
Friday After Class beach days
Wake surfing
Making friends with someone who has a surfboard
Sirius XM Yacht Rock Channel
Mitosis
Chris Stapleton & Lainey Wilson
He’s BEEN in, but 2025 is officially a Chris Stapleton x Lainey Wilson boating and boozing summer
Using the word Dilapidated
Spotify
And on this token, oddly specific/niche Spotify playlist names
The new pope
Being critically aloof
Butchering idioms
Two stones, one bird baby!
Weeding through your closet
Less is more, babe!
Weeding through your friends
Less is more, babe!
A good day of doin jack shit
Working hard at nothin
Naz Reid
Being a hypocrite
Caitlyn Clark
Venn Diagrams
High fives
Bringing pasta salad to the cookout
Opting out of an invite by saying, “For now, my place is here.”
Sneaking booze into the cheap theater
Baseball games
Skeeball
Yelling into the void
And saving the best for last — getting drunk at baseball games
Outs
Snapchat
Wakeboarding
Being available
Talking to people online
If you want to reach me, you shall find me
Vaping
Apple watches
Not liking country music
Get over yourself, jackass!
Apple Music
Fast fashion
Miosis
This bitch is just trying to copy mitosis
Being a bitch
Honeycrisp apples
White claws
The old pope
Those beers you put in a bat at baseball games
Giving unsolicited advice
Expensive coffee
Cryptocurrency
Rivers
Using your phone at the gym
Talking to people at the gym who are clearly in the middle of a workout
Punnett Squares
FOMO
It’s time to enjoy missing out
Being aware of what people are doing at all times
Ignorance is not only bliss, it’s key
Long ass skincare routines
Beige
Self-improvement books
Running at full speed
Health influencers
Manifestation
Bringing baked beans to the cookout
Big brand labels
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Melo Ball
Saying, ‘‘The movie was good, but the book was so much better’’
Yeah, no shit
Vitamin D Vitamin K
White Russians
Colorado Bulldogs
I had one bad experience with these, and I don’t wanna talk about it
Secret talents
Fist bumps
And last but not least, Kevin Durant
Happy Summering!
