This is an interesting idea to be honest. When you come to think about it, every new thing you purchase comes with an overhead - thinking about it's maintanence, one more thing to worry about as you said.

I am a minimalist in the sense that I buy only the things I think I require and even when it comes to those I shy away from expensive fancy ones with a lot of unneeded features.

Removing physical clutter does remove mental clutter.

Beautiful article overall, as usual.

Looking forward to more!