Your article is very accurate. Less really is more a lot of the time. If you take a really good look at all your "stuff" you would probably prefer to have the money back on most of it. The novelty wears off and it just ends up sitting collecting dust.

We have sort of had a forced downsizing with moving into the tiny house and I have not missed the majority of my stuff that is packed away. We also purged and donated a lot of stuff.