About

Hi!

Welcome to Apartment Crunch. I'm Erin, and I'm Cheap and Lazy.

Well... let me clarify. I love good fashion, good food, and (most of all) good home design, but I work three part time jobs to pay my way through (full-time) graduate school, so money and time are tight. In order to feed my need for an aesthetically pleasing life without going broke or driving myself completely insane, I've developed a cheapness/laziness scale to determine whether or not a project is worth doing.


Each project begins with zero stars. The goal is to get above a total of five stars between both categories, or else I need to find a new way of completing the project. I try to find out how to grade them by gauging past experience with similar projects and by searching the internet for tutorials... but because I'm lazy I usually just end up guessing.

Here's an example of a 7 1/2 star project. Whatever that one is, it's definitely worth doing!

Things a project gets judged on in the cheap category:

• The amount of equipment or material I have to buy
• The cost compared to having it done professionally
• The cost compared to buying new

Things a project gets judged on in the lazy category:

• The amount of time the total project will likely take
• Whether or not I can do it at home... in my pajamas... while watching tv
• The physical effort involved in the project
• The mental effort involved in the project (planning, preciseness)
• Whether or not I can easily put the project on hold if I get tired of it