We're always trying to stay on top of the latest trends for the home and related topics. As you'll read in "Great Recession Spawns Big Crop of Buzzwords," some of our Buzzwords are among the hot words of 2009 that MSNBC has just catalogued. These include staycation, recessionista, and cash for clunkers (an example of clunkernomics related to appliances, not cars).
We first wrote about staycations in April 2008 and documented how the recession (or he-cession) prompted lifestyle changes like paycations, weisure, and unitasking. As the economy recalibrates, you might find yourself shopping in a pop-up store or trying to help local businesses as part of a 3/50 Project.
The bulk of our other buzzwords seem to have been spawned by the real-estate collapse and the green movement.
Housing upheaval sparks word construction. The housing meltdown contributed reburbia, a move to find new uses for all those McMansions in cookie-cutter boomburgs/boomburbs now exposed to teardown and foreclosure vultures.
Spectrum of green terms expands. Über-verdant bright greens have girded (and are smart gridding) in the battle for an energy-efficient füture. Less-dedicated homeowners who might have who begun precycling in 2008 or paying as they throw this year can become more green by counting lumens, calculating power factors, backing tough Super Star appliance ratings, shrinking their cookprint, boosting socket saturation of energy-saving CFLs, installing cool roofs, and engaging in energy leasing of wind, solar, biomass, or geothermal systems.
Buzzwords come out in the (green)wash. In 2007, we first griped about greenwashing. Since then, we've added bamboo-zle and greenflushing. (You'll want to avoid the Snackwell's effect.)
What are your hot words or terms of the year? Let us know by leaving a comment below. If you don't see the comment field, click on the headline above or "See the Full Article" below and scroll to the bottom of the page.
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