I think this is part that turned me off the most:
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a backpack full of designer clothing, a laptop, an external hard drive, a small piano keyboard and a bicycle - an armful of goods that totals over $3,000 (£1,890) in value.
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Good grief, if you want to be a vagabond, be a vagabond, but if you need to carry around $3,000 worth of electronics and designer clothes you are NOT a minimalist by my definition.
On the flip side of that, I have spells of feeling as if I'm owned by my possessions. I've just got too much stuff, and it's suffocating sometimes. But then I'll come home after a bad day and it all feels so comfortably familiar and the cats jump up in my lap and go to sleep and I remember why there's no place like home.