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Millennials Are Buying Indoor Plants Instead Of Houses

Monste-what!? - by Francesca Wallace
  • 07 Feb 2019
Millennials Are Buying Indoor Plants Instead Of Houses

I can’t afford a house! Who can? For anyone living in one of Australia’s major cities, buying real estate without the help of very, very generous parents or a lottery ticket is virtually impossible.

So it only makes sense that young Australians are putting their money elsewhere. Clothes? Designer shoes? Travel? Not quite.

New data collected from Google, via The Economist, has suggested millennials are more likely to save for a house plant than a home. Yes, we’re favouring Fiddle Leaf Figs over a house in the suburbs and 1.5 kids.

“They [millennials] can afford houseplants and many are finding that nurturing them is a more manageable form of domesticity,” The Economist wrote, noting that one third of houseplant sales in the United States are made by young people.

Explaining that Google searches for houseplants have increased dramatically over the past few years, The Economist — perhaps cheekily — suggests that a houseplant is “easier to maintain” than a home. Which, for anyone who has struggled with keeping a fern alive in the depths of winter, is laughable.

So there we have it, houseplants are more achievable than owning a home — and that's seriously sad. We’re not crying, we swear.

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Francesca Wallace
Francesca Wallace
Francesca is a contributor to marie claire Australia. She can most likely be found eating a big bowl of fries (don’t forget the aioli!), watching something trashy on TV or spending all her money online shopping. She’s interviewed everyone from Nicole Kidman to Kendall Jenner but didn't get a single good photo.

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