Is Suburban Minimalism An Oxymoron?

My friend Kendra was there the Saturday we went through our old children's books in a beginning effort to "unclutter" our lives. This is the longest we've ever lived in one place, and we keep a lot of things we should get rid of and you gotta start somewhere.

Anyway, I stuffed the massive stack of kid books (naturally, we kept the very best ones & the "classics")and some assorted books I needed to get off my shelves into a rolling suitcase and another carry-on luggage piece to Half-Price Books.

They no longer make trades there, so the offending clutterer kid books turned into $35 cash. We went out for a family dinner on it...so the first steps of legitimate realistic suburban minimalism have officially begun.