Five Things I Don't Miss After Downsizing (and One Thing I Do)

When I moved from a two-bedroom townhouse in Houston to a 250-square-foot studio apartment in New York, I was ready to do without. What I didn't know, at the time, was what that would look like. I was all idealism, sure that I could blaze new trails, go bravely without things many Americans couldn't imagine giving up. Three years in, this is what the reality of that transition looks like. Here are five "essentials'" I've given up and don't miss at all--and one thing that, after all this time, I ...