The Latest Thing in Kitchens: Less Remodeling, More Cooking

With the economy the way it is right now, people are looking for ways they can trim their budgets in order to sock away some extra money.  Green Daily caught a recent article in The Washington Post by Elizabeth Razzi, which offered up some simple money-saving tips, and noted with amusement one that said “The latest thing in kitchens: less remodeling, more cooking.”

It may seem absurdly obvious, but it’s definitely true that over the last decade or so, people in America have gone crazy over kitchen remodeling.  It was a craze that snowballed into panic attacks over “ohmygod my appliances are white, MUST HAVE STAINLESS STEEL” and “if I have to look at those ugly cabinets one more day I’m going to the bell tower with a shotgun”.  Luckily, the current economic conditions have calmed people down so they are taking a moment to realize that commercial-grade stove hoods and granite countertops are not exactly the smartest thing you could be spending your money on right now.

Think of the green angle of this: all of that debris from annihilated 80’s kitchens isn’t continuing to pile up in landfills.  People aren’t ripping down perfectly good (albeit dated) kitchens like having a brand new modern kitchen is going to save them from a zombie invasion or something. And that’s definitely a plus.

Link [Green Daily] + [The Washington Post]
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