On one hand, I like minimalism because I do think that the more crap you own, the more time you spend maintaining it, storing it, blah blah blah, and it just pinwheels.
On the other, these games about "only own 300 items" or "100 items" or whatever are stupid.
For one thing, if you were to classify all the stuff I personally own, a large percentage in terms of actual item counts would be tools. I own a fairly large number of hand, power, etc, tools. But those tools allow me to be somewhat independant and self sufficient and not have to pay out to others to fix my stuff or otherwise do things that I want or need to be done. Which to me is sort of a basic tenant of minimalism, that you be somewhat self sufficient. I certainly am not going to give up a 92-piece socket set or 100-piece bit set in the effort to drive down unit counts of stuff I own; those things are extremely useful (and relatively cheap).
It's like anything else, all about balance. Don't buy crap you can't need or can't afford or aren't going to have time for. But also don't blindly throw away everything or live to an arbitrary number of things because the internet says so.
