We’ve all heard the old cliché: if young people just spent less money on avocado toast, or skipped a latte every once in a while, they might actually be able to afford a house. These proverbs have seemingly become gospel, but they’re patently false. In fact, it would take the money saved from skipping almost 25,000 portions of avocado toast to buy a house in London – that’s one portion every day for 65 years.