One of Thoreau's goals for going to live in the wilderness was to simplify his life. Thoreau argued that, " the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Thoreau considered "clutter" to be an obstacle to simplicity. Explain how you would simplify your own life, giving consideration to Thoreau's meaning of "clutter." Is simplification just a matter of renouncing possessions, or is it something more?