Kerbside junk: Gen Z’s new path to a home deposit

A 24-year-old man has ditched a near $90,000 accounting career to make money from old couches, as a growing number of young Aussies turn to hard rubbish, Facebook Marketplace and kerbside cast-offs to get ahead in an increasingly brutal housing market. For Bailey Garbett, the path to property wasn’t going to come from climbing the corporate ladder. The Melbourne man was on track for a stable, well-paid career when he walked away from one of Australia’s biggest accounting firms in May to flip second-hand lounges full-time. Now, instead of spreadsheets and audits, his days are spent buying, cleaning, photographing and delivering used couches across Melbourne – part of a broader wave of Gen Z trying to turn other people’s trash into a deposit-saving opportunity. MORE NEWS Aus woman earns $900 in six hours collecting people’s rubbish Aussie mates team up to buy $1.6 home in Italy ‘Un-Australian’: The parking act dividing neighbours A 24-year-old Bailey Garbett has walked away from a near-$90,000 accounting career to flip old couches full-time, turning other people’s unwanted lounges into a surprisingly profitable business. Source: TikTok/Baileys_Bargains Garbett, from Melbourne’s outer...