‘How hard is it to keep a plant alive?’: California woman exchanges dead flowers at Home Depot every four months. Should she be ‘embarrassed?’

TikToker Jax (@jaxinenci) posted a life hack for her audience: Bring a dead houseplant to Home Depot with a receipt. Apparently, the store will take it off your hands and give you a brand-new, healthy shrub.

She shared her exchange process for a small, very dead shrub, which has since amassed 1.7 million views. It seems people yearn for living plants, despite many TikTokers’ apparent talent for killing even the simplest, nearly indestructible houseplants.