Is Voluntary Simplicity For Us?

What do I want more than stuff?  What can make me stop buying things I don't really want?  What can put me in a place where I no longer want material stuff because there is something I want and desire even more?

There is supposed to be a difference between  voluntary simplicity and deprived simplicity and I am on a mission to find this balance.  I am reading "Voluntary Simplicity" by Duane Elgin and I am only on page 33.  I can usually thumb through books pretty quickly but this is one that needs to be absorbed.  Thought about.  Pondered.  I find myself putting it down to think about a passage I just read.  I love this book because it's not about living a simpler life and forcing yourself to meager conditions, it's about wanting a simpler life and being happy with the way things already are.  

I read this quote today by Mahatma Gandhi:  "If you were to give it up (referring to material stuff and money) in a mood of self-sacrifice or out of a stern sense of duty, you would continue to want it back, and that unsatisfied want would make trouble for you.  Only give up a thing when you want some other condition so much that the thing no longer has any attraction for you."

So, what do I want more than stuff I can buy or acquire?  I set the book down and thought about this.  What do I want more than anything?  And the answer came to me:

I want my husband home.  I want him here with us.  That's it.  That's all I want.  It's what he wants too.  To be able to be home more and still provide us with our comfortable standard of simple living.  To be a family, a team more than we already are.  Less time at work, more time here.  

Pretty simple and nothing material about it.  Now Universe, I put it out there.  Help me make it happen.