The true minimalist is someone who has learned to be comfortable with little or nothing most usually with little means to accumulate more. My father was like that. A man with little education, no wealth, five children to feed. But he was a humble man, gave to others what he had and was well loved and still is a 94. Many of us are minimalists, not by choice but by means and few are comfortable with it.
I have road the roller coaster from little means to more than I need and back again and have accumulated enough to fill my home with various collections of antique furniture, pendulum clocks, tube radios, cameras and equipment, mounted birds of prey, vinyl records, guns and hunting paraphernalia. I like the ability of variety to chose which and what I want to enjoy at my whim (sounds like I have a way more than I really do.) I do not accumulate wealth for my children as I have none. In the end I really don't care where my collections go. I do hope they are to people and homes who understand and enjoy them.
