1. Buy things for their usefulness rather than for their status.
2. Reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
3. Develop a habit of giving things away.
4. Learn to enjoy things without owning them.
5. Reject anything that breeds the oppression of others.
Richard Foster in A Celebration of Discipline as recounted by Penelope Wilcock, In Celebration of Simplicity (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2009) 18.