What makes the things on our first floor valuable is not their price. Instead, it’s the way each thing asks us, our children, and our guests to bring creativity and imagination to life together. So if you do only one thing in response to this book, I urge you to make it this: Find the room where your family spends the most time and ruthlessly eliminate the things that ask little of you and develop little in you. Move the TV to a less central location—and ideally a less comfortable one. And begin