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Elsie suggested that we do a mini episode about plants and I immediately text her back and I said I like my

plants like I like my eyelashes fake so we're doing today's mini episode

talking all about the best fake plants when to choose them and where to buy them.

Okay, so let's start off by saying a case for real plants.

If you can choose real versus fake and they're both equally going to work for your lifestyle,

pick real because it's better for the environment, it's better for your home,

it's a hobby, like it's a living thing that will bring you

joy hopefully in your life.

I don't think that all plants should be fake we don't think that but as you'll

hear throughout this many episode there's definitely times when I think that the

most practical choice is a fake plant and I think that if you buy them consciously and you buy them for certain

spots then they do last for, you know, forever and I think that they can be really useful.

So yeah, I totally agree.

But I love real plants.

There will never be a replacement for real plants in the home.

I like to have at least 50-50 if I can and that's been over the last few years with little kids

it got more like 50-50 I mean I'd like for it to be even more like 25% or 10% fake you know

But there's always gonna be a few fake plans in my house 25% or 10% fake, you know.

But there's always going to be a few fake plans in my house for sure.

Yeah, and my house over the last like four or five years that we've lived here

has slowly become almost all fake plants. It's kind of sad

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