The younger me will agree but now that I have more practical experience in life I see things differently. The stuff that you own are for convenience. If you ins

The younger me will agree but now that I have more practical experience in life I see things differently. The stuff that you own are for convenience. If you install some furniture you don't need to think about them - they are there ready to accept the stuff you want to stash in. There is very little maintenance as well (dusting, etc.) which you could outsource if you want to free more time for yourself. In terms of the comment that your things own you, I cannot see how this works. Of course if you need to be mobile, then you need to give up on these things or you need to be prepared to take a loss. Those things should have been factored from the very beginning. Buying a car has a huge upfront cost but perhaps lower transportation cost in the long run if you use it regularly. Solar panels vs nuclear vs fossil fuel , laptop vs desktop, own server vs cloud are manifestations of the same thinking. Everything has advantages and disadvantages and unfortunately, regardless of the framework of life you choose to live in some things will not work out the way you want them to but that is fine :) To unclutter your mind you really need to go beyond that kind of thinking. Minimalism cannot be defined in such a simple terms as much as you cannot define minimalism when you are building your next product. Minimalism does not mean lack of features. It means lack of unnecessary features but to find out what falls under this category you need to try them out first to see what works.