| Are you an avid reader? Are you trying to | | | | have a bag of books to trade whenever we |
| instill a love of reading in your children?My | | | | visit each other. After we've both read a |
| whole family loves to read! Right before | | | | book, then it goes to the used bookstore.4. I |
| bedtime every night, every one of us can be | | | | have recently discovered that the Dollar |
| found with our nose in a book!It would be | | | | Stores in our area (and probably in yours, |
| very easy for us to spend a fortune every | | | | too) have books, hardback and paperback, for |
| month on books. But, since we don't have a | | | | $1.00 each. The selection is not very large, |
| fortune to spend every month, over the years | | | | but they have fiction and non-fiction and |
| I've found several ways to get good books and | | | | books for grown-ups and children, too. A book |
| never pay full price!1. Garage and yard sales | | | | can make a great gift and at a $1.00 price it |
| are a prime source for both hardback and | | | | makes great economic sense, too.5. Bookstore |
| paperback books. There are people who will | | | | chain stores, like Hastings, have clearance |
| buy a book, read it once, and they're ready | | | | tables somewhere in the store all the time. |
| to get rid of it. I pick up lots of books at | | | | It takes some time to look through them, but |
| yard sales and never pay more than 50 cents | | | | I have bought many gifts from these clearance |
| each.2. Used bookstores are another place to | | | | tables.6. If you know of a book you'd really |
| find good reading material. Store policies | | | | like to have, why not just let your family |
| differ but most do something like sell the | | | | know? Your mom or your sister or husband |
| books at half the cover price. If you bring | | | | would probably love to give you a gift for |
| in books to trade, a store will usually give | | | | Christmas or your birthday that is something |
| you credit for one-fourth of the original | | | | that they know you really want.7. And don't |
| purchase price. I sometimes buy books at | | | | forget your local library! The library is a |
| garage sales for 50 cents, read the book, and | | | | wonderful place to get a book you've been |
| take it to the used book store where I get | | | | wanting to read without having to buy it. You |
| more than my 50 cents in credit.If I find a | | | | can also read the latest issues of most |
| book in very good condition at a yard sale | | | | magazines at the library. I consider public |
| for less than 50 cents, I will buy it even if | | | | libraries to be one of the "finer things in |
| I don't want to read it because I can trade | | | | life"!So, if you, too, are an avid reader, or |
| it in for credit at the used bookstore.3. | | | | if you're guiding your children to a lifetime |
| Trading with friends and family is yet | | | | love of reading, there are lots of ways to |
| another way to get good reading material. My | | | | "read on the cheap"! |
| mom and I live 200 miles apart, but we always | | | | |