[Don]

For me happiness is about feeling and being as free as possible. Most material possessions are liabilities, demand upkeep and cause you to get over attached. I understand where you're coming from tho, possessions give you status, and status helps you get laid, but i don't think minimalism is about not owning nice things as it's about keeping things as simple as possible.

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
― Isaac Newton

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
― Frederic Chopin