No Toys?!

The more I read about becoming a minimalist the more I love it. However, when it comes to toys I've found it hard to pin point how to control the chaos. The main thing we've found is a lot of people living this life style have no toys or almost no toys. One lady we follow has ten kids and no toys for them-which is great for her. However, from the sounds of things they live in an area where it is always nice enough to go outside and play in our area though the weather is so unpredictable that I don't even know what clothes to wear most days. Playing outside for our kids is one of their favorite things, but it's also something they can't do all the time it's just not possible here. So with that being said, I do want to scale down on their toys but I don't think we're to the point of getting rid of all the toys yet. One suggestion people had was not buying "single purpose toys" so in other words, toys that play with themselves basically. We don't have that issue as it is so it was pretty easy getting rid of those toys. The hard part was getting rid of repeat toys, we have five girls so we have several sets of the same Barbies and I think I'm a little more attached to them than they are. I have some weird attachment to toys and I seem to always think "what if another one of the kids wants it?". I had to force myself to realize that they will get over it if they don't have all the toys they want. So, that is the big project we have this weekend-cleaning out the toys! Not all the kids are fully on board, which is part of the reason I'm doing it on the weekend, but like I said they will get over it. Obviously, I will not be getting rid of toys they use often but the toys that sit at the bottom of the toy box can go! When we're done I'll let you guys know how it went and what we decided to keep and how it went over in the end.