Time to
get ready for the new school year!!! Unless you school year round like us.
Well I'm all about being frugal when it comes to books and school supplies!
Most of us homeschoolers have
enough materials on hand to educate a small army...lol.
This summer go through your
bookshelves and make 3 piles:
THROW AWAY
KEEP
SELL/GIVEAWAY
Throw Away Pile: The first pile is
just plain old junk, stuff that is used up, scribbled on, discolored, torn up etc. Get RID
OF IT!! Including that workbook you bought on Ebay that smells like nasty musty
YUCK!!
Keep Pile: These are books that you
can use again for another child, or re-read. Organize these by subject, I like to buy magazine holders from the Dollar
Tree or use cereal boxes and cut the top and side out and put some cute wrapping
paper on them to cover them. They are very durable if you put clear packing tape
on the bottoms. Use these for booklets, workbooks and things like that. Put
subjects on them and on free read days or Mom is sick days, I tell our son to go and
pick out an activity and spend an hour working on it. It makes learning fun
because he can pick what he wants to do. Jot down what you have and later on in
the summer when you really start planning out the coming school year you can
see what you have to work with. It's frugal to use what you have.
The sell/giveaway/trade pile: is for stuff that is still usable, but you don't need anymore or it did not work for your child. I have gathered up enough stuff to sell that I was able to buy some new goodies at homeschool convention that I might not have otherwise been able to afford. The giveaway items are things that are still in usable condition that you can bless another homeschool family with. Here is a referral link to Paperbackswap.com which is another great way to get rid of books, audiobooks, CD's and DVD's you no longer need. PaperBackSwap has all kinds of books, homeschooling books, textbooks, readers, novels etc. Always do a search for author and then for title because sometimes books are listed different ways in their system. Check them out to see how easy it is to start trading your items! P.S. you can mark allergies (cats/dogs/smoke) on your profile and then you don't have to accept books from traders that had a dog or cat or that smoke etc.
By looking through what you have,
you can make a plan of action for your coming school year and save money too! I am betting that
everyone has at least 1 full subject that they can teach this next school year
without having to buy a thing. Take some time and get digging around, see what
you can find.
Post on here to let us know what
you find!
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