[curation]

I agree. I retired at 35 by saving 90% of what I made and lucked into living in Toronto at the beginning of the property ladder in the 90s. Like a diet, it's more about the determination to live with what seems like privation but really it is just being free of all kinds of crap - furniture, creams, soaps, appliances, clothes, decor - that provide social acceptance but ends in indentured servitude.