Hasta La Ideas

Back in May, Oprah aired an episode titled “The ‘What can you live without?’ experiment, Part 2.” Oprah asked two families to unplug and unclutter for one week and see how it changed their lives.

I didn’t see the episode, but on Friday, CNN.com published an article about it in their Living section. I found the results of the experiment to be exactly in line with my personal findings after taking on a similar project:

It’s an important lesson Ron says the entire family has learned. “We don’t have to have all of this stuff,” he says. “If you have family like the family I have, nothing else really matters.”

Oprah herself appeared to be affected by the experiment:

In the spirit of living with less, Oprah went through her own closet to see what she could live without — and asked her audience members to donate 10 things from their own homes. “Now more than ever, we all need to think about those who have been hardest hit by our economy, and the extra stuff in our lives might be something that somebody else really needs,” Oprah says.

If you missed the episode like I did, you can watch clips from the show on oprah.com.