Indoor plants can be a fantastic way to
brighten up your home
on a budget. In this video, I'm going to
count down my top five places to find
cheap indoor plants and number one is
probably going to surprise you.
Hi, I'm Cindy from Smart Family Money. I
help you learn how to shop smarter,
save money, and save time so you can get
back to changing the world.
So today I wanted to talk about cheap
plants. There's
two reasons that I absolutely love cheap
indoor plants.
The first is they're just an expensive
home decor item.
They're less expensive than a lot of
other things that can brighten your home.
They're also really great for your
physical and your mental health.
But the second reason I love cheap
plants in particular
is I'm not great at keeping plants alive,
so if I only spend a few dollars buying
a plant and it dies after a month or two,
I figure I got a few dollars worth of
joy out of it. It was less expensive than
a bouquet of flowers
and it lasted longer so there's no guilt
when they die.
Because honestly, they will a lot of
times. But
after years of being great at killing
plants I've also learned which ones
survive my neglect, so if you want me to
do another video about types of plants
and which ones I found work for me,
let me know in the comments and we can
talk about that in another video.
In this one, I'm focusing on my top five
places to find cheap indoor plants.
Let's start with number five. Home garden
centers. Now garden centers
are generally not the most inexpensive
place to find plants,
but you can find some good deals there
if you just know how to shop.
At the garden center, I found that six
inch plants were around eight to nine
dollars
and four-inch pots were about six
dollars.
Now most places do sell plants and they
price them
by the size of the pot. One of my first
tips for looking at the garden center is:
Pay attention more to the size of the
plant than the pot,
especially if you already plan to put it
in a fancier decorative pot.
So you might find a larger plant in a
four-inch pot
than a similar one in a six-inch pot and
the four-inch pot is going to be less
expensive.
So just pay attention to that as you're
shopping around the garden center.
Another tip for shopping at a garden
center is don't overlook hanging plants.
If you're going to re-pot it, it doesn't
matter if it started out in a hanging
pot. You can always put it in a regular
pot
and you might find some good prices on
larger plants that way.
Another big tip for the garden center is
don't overpay
for plants that are already in
decorative pots. I found a snake plant
in a nice looking pot for about twenty
dollars but I found a similar size
plant for only $6 and then I
found a pot that was only $5.
So together that would be $11
as opposed to $20 and you
literally just have to drop the plant
inside the pot and you're good to go.
In general, though, at the garden center I
would stick to more unusual plants that
you're not going to be able to find
elsewhere and if you want a really
common plant,
go to one of my other options. So next up
on the list number four
is home improvement stores. Lowe's and
home depot have a really good selection
of house plants. I thought maybe Menards
would also have a good selection,
but they only have outdoor plants. They
don't have indoor plants at my local
Menards.
One of the best deals you'll find at the
home improvement stores is the larger
plants.
You'll find large floor plans for as low
as $15,
which is a really good price for big
plants. Their smaller plants are about the
same prices that I found at the garden
center.
One notable exception though is that
Lowe's and Home Depot tend to have
seasonal rotational
things that are not in the regular
section. They might be out in the main
aisles of the store
and those tend to be a little better
prices actually. You just never know what
you're going to get at each time a year.
Right now, I noticed they had some really
nice plants in terracotta pots
for only $7. Similar plants
without a fancy pot were $8
in the regular plant section,
so you could actually pay less and get a
nice pot with it,
which seems like a good deal to me. One
money-saving tip that you'll often hear
is to check the clearance section of
plant sections, but especially at Lowe's,
I would just pass by the clearance
section. Every time I've seen it, it looks
like a graveyard for plants and it's
just depressing.
And especially if you're new to raising
plants< you're not going to be one who's
going to
revive a half-dead plant and the prices
in their clearance section are just not
that great
for as terrible as the quality of the
plants you're getting.
So just go elsewhere and skip the Lowe's
clearance section.
Number three on my countdown of places
to get cheap indoor plants
is Walmart. Walmart can have
some really great plants. You'll find
them in the garden center in the indoor
part.
Some of their plants are pretty close in
price to what you'll find at the garden
centers or Lowes and Home Depot
but their small plants especially can be
a great price.
Today at Walmart I found a great
selection of small succulents for only
$3.74.
That's an incredible price. Another thing
that Walmart tends to have is some nice
looking plants in decorative pots.
I found some as low as $10. They
had some aloe and a bamboo plant
and I found some other ones in really
cute pots for $13.
My daughter was with me on our plant
exploration mission
and she picked up one of the bamboo
plants that they had at Walmart. This was
$10 and it's really cute. It'll
looked great on her desk.
I love that it came with a really nice
ceramic pot with it.
So that's a great deal for $10.
Number two on my countdown of best
places to find cheap plants is
large grocery stores. Larger grocery
stores tend to have a floral department
and you might find plants in the floral
department as well.
When I used to live in Columbus, Ohio, one
of my favorite places to get plants was
actually Kroger.
And the reason it was so great was
because they had a rotation
of plants that they would have and
they'd have them for like a month and
then have some other kind of plant
and when they were done with that
selection of plants, they put them on
clearance.
And they put them for really great
prices like two or three dollars
sometimes even with a decorative pot.
And what was so great about that is
unlike Lowes and their half-dead plants
in their clearance section,
the Kroger clearance section of plants
were beautiful. They were great. There was
nothing wrong with them. They were just
last month's selection.
So definitely, if you have a Kroger
around, check for a clearance section
in their floral department. No matter
which grocery chain you have near you,
you're likely to find some good deals at
the grocery store. Here in Cleveland we
have a discount chain called Marc's
and I found some really great plant
prices there. They had four-inch pots for
only
around $3 and they had six
inch pots for around $7.
They also had some really cute
decorative pots with plants for in the
range of $7-9.
When I was at Marc's today, I picked up
this plant. It's a six-inch pothos and it
was $6.87 which is a pretty good price
for such a big looking plant.
This one comes in a basic garden pot
that has the holes in the bottom, so you
definitely don't want to bring this home
and just set it on a table because it's
going to leak water out the bottom.
The fact that water comes out the bottom
is good for the plant, though, because it
gives it some drainage,
so one of my best tips is to take this kind
of pot and put it inside of something
else decorative.
So I had this decorative pot. It's a
little bit taller than the pot for this
one,
so I solved that by putting a piece of
packing foam in the bottom.
If you're going to do this make sure
it's something that is okay with water
like styrofoam or plastic packing foam,
not something like cardboard because
it's definitely going to get wet in
there.
And you can just pop that pot right
inside and look how nice that looks.
Speaking of pots, I love to find great
deals on pots for plants.
If that's something you're interested in
let me know in the comments and maybe I
could do another video about finding
good deals on pots for plants.
Are you ready for my number one place to
get cheap
indoor plants? It is Aldi.
Yep, believe it or not, my favorite place
to get cheap groceries
is also my favorite place to get cheap
plants. You never know what kind of
plants are going to have, but they always
have some kind of plant.
It just changes all the time so you need
to keep your eye out anytime you're
there.
Today they had some really cute four-inch plants that were only $3
and they came in a
decorative pot that looks nice.
So for only $3, I had to pick up one today when
I was there. I'm gonna put this one on my
desk and I think it's really gonna
brighten the room
and it takes no extra work for me
because it's already in a cute pot.
Love it. I've gotten other plants from
Aldi over the years.
I got a couple really nice ones for my
front entryway about two years ago
and they've grown so much over the last
couple years.
As you can see this one comes in a
larger pot, so it was a little more
expensive than the other ones but I
think it was still around $8 or $9.
For a plant this size in a decorative
pot, you just cannot beat that price
anywhere else.
So I hope you enjoyed my countdown of
the top five places to find cheap indoor
plants.
And I hope you check out plants at Aldi
next time you're there.
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