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Where can I buy amazing-looking artificial plants?

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GlitteringCBeams · 07/02/2026 20:00

I have spent a FORTUNE on houseplants in the last few years, and researched how to look after them, tended them carefully, I’ve even made sure to speak encouragingly to them to make sure they know they are loved and valued.

And yet they persist in looking shit and then dying. I am OVER IT.

So tell me, MNers, where can I buy fake plants that won’t break my heart? (And don’t tell my MIL. This is sacrilege.)

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OvernightBloats · 08/02/2026 17:19

thestudio · 08/02/2026 17:09

It sounds like I have touched a nerve. I wasn't lecturing or hectoring - I was describing the view that I personally came to in the course of trying to buy some artificial plants.

And if awareness is good - well, I guess that's how awareness is spread, isn't it - people hear what others think and perhaps change their position? Awareness doesn't come from nowhere.

As for 'we all have different tastes' - well of course, but does that mean we shouldn't think about the impact that any particular taste has?

If everyone says 'my taste/wants' matters more than anything else, we'll carry on along the doomed path we're on now.

Such an odd post. You're implying that I'm some kind of climate harridan or extremist and that yours is the 'common sense' view - but actually, your position (that 'choice' is the first principle and people should never be made to feel guilty about their choices) is actually pretty ideologically extreme.

Like most populist positions it makes claim to being on the side of 'the people', but supports an economic agenda that quite definitely does not put people first.

ETA: And the idea that you can't express an opinion on something unless you've achieved perfection yourself - that's pretty ridiculous.

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The title of the thread was asking for where to buy artificial plants. You saw it as an opportunity to make a passive aggressive post about how they are tacky and talking about the state of the world.

Yours is the odd comment here in this thread. It was a thread about artificial plant recommendations! Quite clearly, they are not something you like but you felt the need to be snide about other people's choices.

I was merely pointing out to you that none of us are perfect when we all own plastic items and for you to judge about plastic plants is hypocritical.

thestudio · 08/02/2026 17:58

OvernightBloats · 08/02/2026 17:19

The title of the thread was asking for where to buy artificial plants. You saw it as an opportunity to make a passive aggressive post about how they are tacky and talking about the state of the world.

Yours is the odd comment here in this thread. It was a thread about artificial plant recommendations! Quite clearly, they are not something you like but you felt the need to be snide about other people's choices.

I was merely pointing out to you that none of us are perfect when we all own plastic items and for you to judge about plastic plants is hypocritical.

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I wasn't snide or passive aggressive - I literally said I was trying to buy some myself?

And as I already said in response to your hypocrisy argument (another populist line), if you could never have an opinion on something unless you were 100% perfect we'd all be buggered!

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