Each town’s library has a volunteer group called “Friends of the Library” who go around town and accept donations of books from the residents and then either once or twice a year have a big book sale where all the proceeds go to the library for new acquisitions. The first day of the sale is always Friday (they charge 5-10 bucks to get in and hard cover books are 3-5 bucks and paper backs are 1-3 bucks). On Saturday, there is no charge to get in and on Sunday the books are half price. But the day I go is on Monday. On Monday, the books are $3-5 a bag. It is so much fun to get books for this price. Today I went to the sale in Norwalk. It was $3 a bag. I got 3 bags full -- or 138 books (which is roughly 7 cents a book). Some of them I keep- some I use for gifts (because a lot of the books are in brand new condition) and some of the books even I don't want, but with my kids there helping me, we always come how with a few stragglers. Here is what I got today. 
These are the 3 Adam chose.
Here are most of the ones Madelyn chose (yes, she went with me -- she was coughing all night and so I kept her home from school -- has she coughed at all today? nope. . . but better safe than sorry)
You should see if your libraries have these friends of the library sales and see what you can get for $9 bucks!
3 comments:
I love getting books for cheap! Did you ever go to the Maud Marks library sales when you guys were here? They have them the last Sat of every month ...paperbacks are .25-.50 and hardbacks are .50-1.00
WOW! That is so neat. I need to look into that...
Now that's BARGAIN shopping. I love it!
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