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where do you moms buy your books for your kids? They are so dog on expensive?
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??Xanden’s Mommy?? questioned:
I’m only paying 1-2 bucks for a book and i’d rather just pay 10 cents really. I’m pretty cheap. Thinking about just renting from library until yard sale season. Where do you all get your books?? Do you really pay like 8 bucks for 1???
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I’m only paying 1-2 bucks for a book and i’d rather just pay 10 cents really. I’m pretty cheap. Thinking about just renting from library until yard sale season. Where do you all get your books?? Do you really pay like 8 bucks for 1???
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Thrift stores
I live in Tennessee and Dolly Parton has an incredible charity called the imagination library where she sends one free book a month to kids who are residents of Tennessee. Maybe your state has a similar program.
barnes and nobles
Try going to goodwill or some other thrift store. You could also check amazon.com. They have probably have every used book you could reckon of.
1-2 bucks for a book?? Where the hell are you getting your books from??
I get the majority of my books from Chapters. Books ages 2-5 are usually about $10-$15. It’s amusing, because full out novels for ages 5 and up, can be as cheap as $3.
I usually try to hit the scholastic book honest at the school every year, because those same books that are 10-15 dollars at chapters are only $5 bucks.
I get all my books groundbreaking new, and they are actual tale books. You can get cheap Bernstein bears, care bears, and rip off Disney books for chhheeeeaap at Wal-Mart, but I reckon its better to have a collection of excellent quality tale books. They are really beneficial for the children, and they really delight in them. There is nothing better then including tale time as a part of the bedtime routine.
$1 is EXTREMELY cheap- I usually pay between $10 and $15 per book for a children’s book! I consider any book under $20 a cheap book- most of the ones I buy for light reading are closer to $50.
I’d rather pay $50 for a book I can keep than pay the $1 a day overdue fees at my local library.
thrift stores, borrow from the library because it is free unless you return them late and have to pay per day, some used books stores (not all are cheap). I suggest the library. If you are looking for something specific the library may be able to find it for you from another library if they don’t have it. If they do have something well loved they sometimes will have a list and will contact you when it is ready for you.
we have a grumpys and a mckays book store. they sell used books, also you can take in used books for in store credit. childrens books are really well kept and cheap too!! try googling “used book stores” in your area.
we have a local store called the bookworm that sells used books. we go there and each kid gets to pick out a couple books.. they are like a dollar to dollar fifty a piece but 4-5 books for five dollars suits me just fine. my kids adore reading just like me and their father do
I stick to three places,
thrift stores, like excellent will or salvation army
used bookstores, they will usually let you trade books
or the bargain section of barnes & noble.
or if its not vital for you to have an extensive at home library, then you can always try the public library. =)
also, a really excellent thought that i heard for a baby shower in stead of doing a diaper raffle you can have guests bring their favorite childrens book instead.
I buy my kids’ books from thrift store, garage sales, the libraries for sale rack, the dollar store, and from the scholastic thing they bring home lol. In that scholastic thing you can get like 6 books for $12.00 or less.
I try not to spend to much as their reading levels keep changing, and what they like reading about changes with the wind.
1-2 bucks? Lucky you. I just got back a while ago from the book honest at my daughters school she spent $79 on 13 books and I thought that was cheap lol.
You can try amazon.com
Yeah if the book is really nice and worth it I’ll pay that. She has a bunch of cheapies as well. If I could wake up early enough I’d go garage saling…something I always plot to do but always end up sleeping in.
EDIT*OMG Tamara – (I didn’t TD u by the way) I can’t believe that your library charges overdue fees, kind of defeats the purpose of a library.
Nascargirl24 – Tru, nah I’ve never heard of a library charging money, only if you dont take the book back at all, then you have to pay for it…maybe it’s an American thing?
half priced books
Yup. You’re pretty cheap. If you can get kiddie books for a dollar or two, you’re doing fantastic!
Used book stores are excellent, and thrift shops. yeah. I got a lot at yard sales, and hand-me-downs, too, which are fantastic, cause you want some that your kids can ruin!
RENTING from the library? They are FREE! Just take the kids and let them browse for an hour or so! Some of my most wonderful memories from my OWN childhood!
Hey! My son is now 10. His books cost around $25! Yeah, we pay it. Cause now, we know that he will take excellent care of them, and read them over and over. Cause we let him have many when he was small. He is VORACIOUS! Reads ALL THE TIME!!! And still finds time to watch stupid tv, and play soccer, etc.
If you want a bunch that you can just let them tear up, go to a thrift shop…Salvation Army, Goodwill, local ones, there are bunches in huge cities. Just look in the phone book under “thrift shops/stores”.
Only spend huge bucks on the ones you really care about. The ones they really like…My son’s favorite is called “Roxaboxen”. Excellent picture books, Quality, award winners, collections that are vital to you…I had nearly all of the Boynton books, cause she is from the area where I went to University, and I was always a fan. Eric Carle, fantastic collections of tales, Where the Wild Things Are, books like that…classics.
10c a book… LOL. I pay between $10- $25 a book
I usually shop at Boarders… although I am not a cheapskate!
my son gets a free book per month through the imagination library as well, its a fantastic program and it lasts from birth until 5 years ancient.i also do thrift stores and yard sales,and such. i do buy him his excellent books as well though, i bought him a disney book with a LOT of different tales in it, it was $25 dollars,but it was worth it as it had all the books in it i would have bought individually in one collection, its not simple to find cheap books, hand me downs are excellent, as other kids of friends and family outgrow theirs they can hand them down to your child. sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and spend the cash though, it really benefits your child to read to them, but i also **** spending an arm and a leg to do it.
I always buy my kids books at local thrift stores. Excellent will and salvation army are a bit over priced in my opinion you have to find those small thrift stores that are not chains. And of course during garage sale season I stock up on books because you can never beat a garage sale priced book they are always under 50cents.
thrift stores, dollar stores, library sales, yard sales. I did pay retail for my special edition series of Narnia and Harry POtter, though. But he doesn’t get to read those, I have to hold and read them to him.
Wow! I wished I could find books that cheap!! I am all for books and my eight year ancient son has tons of them! I am seven months pregnant and my baby has all kinds, too and he isn’t even born yet! lol..
I just go to book stores and go down the sale isle. Sometimes they have like $15-20 books for about $6-10. I like getting them that cheap! My son was in Kindergarten and they tested him and he was doing fourth grade reading.. He is so smart and I am so proud of him!
EDIT: Sometimes our local library sells books really cheap and they are new and in fantastic shape. They do that when they have too many of them. If your local library doesn’t do that, go to your largest town’s library when you are shopping in that town and check theirs out or call and question if they do and when they do it.
Walmart has pretty cheap books, too.. But you might reckon $3 is too high..
EDIT AGAIN:::: Tamara, what kind of books do you pay $50 for? I pay up to $20-25 for them.. They would have to be made out of gold for me to pay that much for them!! I thumbs up’ed you by the way… lol. I never thumbs down people on here unless they are stupid.. I am just wondering where you pay that much for a book!!
And I thought all libraries charges overdue fees, that is why you have to take them back on time.. lol.
I guess I am cheap too
I always buy the kids’ books from thrift stores (unless its one that I REALLY want but can’t find there). Our local thrift store is pretty nice, all kids books are like 50 cents each and then when you buy 4 you get two free- awesome!
I also found my son some Janie & Jack clothes there recently for like $2 a piece- a fantastic deal!
yeah it’s called a library where you can borrow them for free. If you’re looking for books as gifts sign up to get e-mails from borders and they’ll send you coupons.but yeah books are expensive, and you only read them once, so there’s not much point in buying them. oh yeah textbooks are insane. Buy them used online.
lol, i get mine at B&N, walmart, or borders. I also only buy when i have a coupon. I but don’t like used books because i like everything new so i can keep it that way….