Based on Faith Academy Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I've been trying to sell books and they just aren't selling. I hate just handing them to good will where they may sit on a shelf forever when I know there are people who could probably use them. What do you do with your old books? My kids are eight years apart so these are books that I would want updates versions of. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Homeschool materials? I usually offer them at super cheap prices and people generally buy them. But anything that people don't buy or I think isn't worth selling I bring to a park day or something and give away. Usually someone wants it. For other books... I do just give them to the thrift store. There's a good market for books there. If there's no takers, it wasn't meant to be taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Most of my books have not been worth selling. I either give them to friends (homeschool books to friends with kids younger than mine) or to our library for the book sale. Ratty old paperbacks go in the recycling. ETA: If they are books people want, they won't sit on the shelf at Goodwill forever. :-) There are a lot of books out there. I've said before that I wonder how many copies of the Little House books there are floating around the world. Probably a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I just took my books to a homeschool consignment shop. I dropped them off 3 days ago, so I don't know how this will turn out. I hope to get a little bit of money back and hope that another homeschool family is happy with them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Another idea is to donate them to better world books. If I remember correctly this org does donate books to Africa. They also sell them online. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth S Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Usually, I do this:I send out a group email to those friends at church who may be interested--a quick list of the books I have for Free, Cheap, and more Expensive. It catches those who are interested, quickly, with no obligation. I guess you could do FB. Easy for me to pass the books to them without shipping. Seriously, it's a great way to encourage friends with kids a little younger than yours, to help them build their libraries. Also, our annual homeschool used curriculum sale here is in mid-May. What I can't sell there for cheap (50c PB, $1 HB for the "junk"), goes directly to the library donation box. I'm on the Library Board, and our semi-annual sale depends on generous donations . . . which in turn fund extra library activities. I feel like I've received lots of Hand-Me-Downs over the last two decades, and passing my surplus on to others Pays It Forward. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I donate everything to the library for their annual book sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKWAcademy Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I give books to the library for their annual sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAndTheBoys Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I try to sell ones that I think will sell. I take some to my homeschool co-op and say, "Up for grabs!". and I donate lots to a local thrift store. The books have a huge turnover, and I am constantly finding little treasures there. Our library bookstore has a good turnover for homeschool materials too. There are LOTS of homeschool moms scouting the thrift shops, and your stuff will get found! I will say that in our town, Goodwill has the lousiest book setup and i DON'T think they would sell as well there--it always looks trashed. Find a thrift store with a neatish, tidyish book area and donate them there. B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod's mum Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I have taken a couple of boxes of ratty looking kids books to kindy where they were placed near the door with a 'Please take some' sign. It was a fairly poor area and apparently all were gone in two days. Then I took several boxes of the rest of the unwanted and asked if I could place them in the waiting area of a refugee assistance centre with a similar sign. Our goodwill type shops would have binned most of these but they were grabbed. This was several years ago and needs to be repeated now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Based on Faith Academy Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 I just took my books to a homeschool consignment shop. I dropped them off 3 days ago, so I don't know how this will turn out. I hope to get a little bit of money back and hope that another homeschool family is happy with them. I would love to find one of these in my area!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 I offer them for shipping to on-line friends and/or offer them for free to nearby homeschoolers. Whatever is left I throw out. I hate throwing stuff out, but anything else I've tried hasn't really worked. I looked into the library donation route, but they have very specific criteria for donations and nothing I have ever seems to satisfy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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