What This Millennial Learned from Going Without a Smart Phone for a Year

In a bid to win $100,000 in a contest put on by Vitamin Water, Elana Mugden went an entire year without using a smart phone. Without a smart phone, Mugden had to lug a bag full of necessities to get by, including a flip phone, an old iPod Shuffle, an atlas and a camera. “I can definitely say that in this one-year experiment, I feel better,” Mugden told InsideEdition.com’s Leigh Scheps. “What ultimately happened is I curtailed how many people I'm really interacting with on a meaningful level.”