The best-owned things make life easier more often than they demand attention.

The good ones are quiet. They work, they hold up, they do not require you to think about them, and the ratio of use to attention runs strongly in your favor. Anything you are always tending, adjusting, or apologizing for has reversed that ratio, whatever it cost.

Rank your possessions by how often they ask something of you compared with how often they help. The winners are worth protecting and repeating. The losers are worth replacing, once, with something simpler that will not need this conversation again.