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This will all come together like an episode of Seinfeld.

Just watch.

One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get books from the public library, rather than buy them, which has been my custom for years. My husband and I love books, but I realize that books generate paper and waste. I’m trying to become a minimalist.

The photo ID previous to voting has been upheld by the US supreme court. This has always seemed like a no brainer to me. It takes a photo ID to get a library card, to get on an airplane or to drive a car but none to vote.

I decided it was high time recently for Miss C to have her own library card.

I try to take the girls to our local library a couple of times a month and Miss A and Miss C always make a beeline to the children’s area after they check out the DVD section. There is usually a lot of shushing on my part until I start to get on my own nerves with the shushing. I swore I’d never be a mother who shushed her kids.

Did you know that the Nashville Public Library maintains a searchable database of articles published in The Tennessean? It’s free if you are a Davidson County resident with a library card, and it’s constantly being updated. The content is usually current within a few days of the present, so January 2008 editions are already online. The library began archiving the paper electronically in 1999,

PlanetTrash makes lots of New Year Resolutions and keeps some of them. In 2008, we will use a library card instead of buying books. Mostly we buy MP3s, which eliminates some plastic. We are continuing to say NO to plastic bags. We bought one item at Walgreen’s today and declined the plastic bag to carry it to the car. Very soon, our newspaper subscription will expire, and we will eliminate over half of what we take to the recycling bins.