I think it is very arrogant to tell another person what they do or do not need. I can’t tell you what you need. Only you can.
Yet people are free with opinions about other people’s life styles. They make all kinds of judgments.
The saying that says the best things in life are free is referring to things like relationships with other people, or experiences in nature and whatnot where you don’t necessarily have to pay. Of course, whoever said that, wasn’t an economist. If you look at life through the eyes of an economist, you see that we “pay” for everything. So it isn’t true and that, of course, is why it feels like the best things are not free. Indeed, they are not. Nothing, in fact, is free.