[Y201K]

After reading your comment -- some of the thoughts of which I have already come to myself -- I realize it could be really hard to tease apart the source of any desire I have to minimalize: do I want to because I think it's genuinely a more productive or helpful way to live, or is it all just signalling? Just curious, have you ever had any fleeting wish to own less?

[tjic]

I absolutely have occasionally wanted to own less. For example, when I last moved houses. :)

I own a crazy amount of things because I own a lot of books, I have a well equipped workshop, and I live on a farm (which means that I have two chainsaws, a tractor, a dozen tractor implements, a chicken plucker, an apple cider press, specialty tools for working on all of these things, and so forth and so on).

All in all I like my lifestyle, but I can also appreciate the benefits of other lifestyles.

[Y201K]

You're the farm guy! Reading your comments on other threads was very interesting. Books are the same way for me, I can't bear to part with them!