How I, A Millennial, Afforded A Deposit On My Own Home

by Amy Budrikis

''On the weekend Bernard Salt published a thing in The Australian suggesting that young people should stop eating smashed avocado with feta on toast and save the money for a deposit on a house instead, and millennials/millennial-allies (millenniallies?) rightly and righteously lost their #smashedavo shit over it. This relates to my phd adventure in that I am in the somewhat anomalous position of being a post-graduate-student/millennial/single-person-mortgage-haver (I’m getting business cards made), so I thought I would write about how many Vegetarian Big Breakfasts I had to skimp on to get into property...''