My brother-in-law and his wife are so called minimalists who moved back east from California. Buying a 5 bedroom 750k house wasn’t minimalist to start with .But

My brother-in-law and his wife are so called minimalists who moved back east from California. Buying a 5 bedroom 750k house wasn’t minimalist to start with .But they had to go car free and so needed to be in a walkable and hip part of the city.Then they had a kid and kept asking me and my wife as well as my parents for favors and stuff just so they didn’t have to buy or do things. Meanwhile scoffing at me and my wife for thrift shopping since we were buying stuff we needed. I am sorry but minimalism is re-using and not wasting stuff as much as you can . Collecting experiences by traveling every weekend contributes hugely to pollution by airlines . A 750k open design house , going car-less, not buying a used lawnmower but paying someone to mow your lawn is extreme American privilege and a fad . Minimalism is doing with what you have and trying to recycle and re-use and right to repair .