GEN Z NOT INTO FAMILY HEIRLOOMS

“Sorry Mom and Dad, I don’t want your things if it means cluttering my home.” This is the new mantra of the younger generation. Gen Zs and millennials have no interest in acquiring anything that serves little or no purpose other than to clutter living space. Youngsters today do not want – and also just do not have the space – for what their parents may pass on to them. Aaminah Peerbhai, 27, from Port Elizabeth says although she will “obviously appreciate anything from her parents”, she’d have to go with not wanting their furniture. Her reason? “It’s ancient and big.”