Creating Your Own Library

From time to time our local library sells some of it's surplus books. We live in a rather large metropolitan area and I guess they need to cull books from the stacks in order to make way for new materials. If you need to stock your own library I suggest you look into when the book sales are at your local libraries.

Another nice resource here is our local AAUW. The American Association of University Women. Here in our area they have a giant book sale in the spring and they use the proceeds to fund women's education.

Garage and yard sales are also nice for hunting, as are flea markets and swap meets. Here in New York I've never seen a swap meet, but then you just never know when one might appear.

The last resource that I suggest for buying books is your local Scholastic warehouse. We're fortunate enough to have a warehouse here and the prices are wonderful, there are about six sales a year, the next one being this month. Scholastic has a website and all you need to do is search for warehouse and navigate from there. Most sales like you to have a Fastpass since they need you to register each time that you shop with them. If you have the Fastpass you won't need to register when you arrive at the sale. These sales are open to the public and you don't need to be in education to go.

Happy Hunting!