All About Kai Cenat's Gen Z PhenomenonA new survey just found that nearly half of Americans who have left home — 46% — still use their parents’ place as a personal storage unit. Along with the 82% of Gen Z and 69% of millennials who still keep some of their belongings at their parents’ home, 46% of Gen X confessed to doing this, too. It’s probably why over a third of respondents (35%) keep some of their belongings in a storage unit, held for an average of eight years. The tendency to keep belongings in storage for years, said Blanco, is mostly driven “by a combination of nostalgia, anticipated regret and uncertainty about the future.” Enter your parents’ attic or even a traditional storage space which, he says, “can become extensions of our emotional lives, allowing us to postpone difficult decisions about identity, change and loss.”