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