No worries, Maz!
Meant to say, too, that we used the bassinette for day sleeps because we co-slept from day one at night. We still don't have a cot. We have a portacot (given free by a friend) but now that DS can safely get down from higher surfaces feet-first, he is back in our bed for day sleeps.
My motivation for simplicity has various facets - cheaper, less consumerism involved, far easier for me to deal with, less to put into storage later.
So much can be bought second hand from kids recyclers and eBay that you'd really need to be locked into an 'everything must be new' mentality to get everything new. Most of my favourite pieces of clothing on DS were bought 2nd hand. Later in the piece, most of my terry flat cloth nappies are eBay purchases (from mummies who converted to modern cloths quite early in the piece, so my cloths were quite fresh).
Our buggy came from a friend of my mum's and our borrowed stuff came from my fire brigade circle - we didn't ask for anything, it was offered and we gratefully accepted. I know some people aren't very comfortable with the idea of borrowing, but being able to give back things we no longer needed really appealed to us.
One thing I would recommend if you don't already have one, is a nice comfy armchair for feeding bubs in those early days, where you just need to lock yourself away to establish feeding. We have some lovely antique chairs, so I'd sit us by the bookcase, next to the CD player and feed while I sang my favourite songs to DS. Even if you have a comfy chair, get creative and make a nice cover for it (for chuck ups, a cover will be a godsend) and create a 'feeding corner'.
A HAB will largely take the place of a rocker, as when the baby is that small it's no strain on your back to carry baby around whilst doing things and they sleep through rigorous things like hanging out washing and changing the rug of a horse!
How exciting! Just talking about it is making me nostalgic...