May. 2, 2008
Organizing our books
I never did finish organizing our book collection when we moved into this house, and we have been living with disorderly bookcases since then. Not to mention all the ratty cardboard boxes of books left unpacked. So this week I decided enough was enough and something NEEDS to be done! The first thing I did was buy some nice boxes - 18-gallon Sterlite totes. So far I only have 2, in red and blue. I need to find one of each in green and yellow.
Why the colors? Because Tapestry of Grace is organized by colors. Red is for year 1, yellow for year 2, green for year 3, and blue for year 4. I organized all of our history and historical fiction books into each of the 4 boxes (just using cardboard boxes for year 2 & year 3 for now) and stacked them in the corner. Besides being organized per year, they are also out of reach of little babies who will be crawling in a few short months!
We also study science in 4 year cycles (at least until 7th or 8th grade) as suggested by The Well Trained Mind so I also sorted our science books into 4 milk crates that we already owned - red, yellow, green, and blue! So our year 1 science books (life sciences) are in the red crate, our year 2 science books (earth & space science) are in the yellow crate, etc. It works out perfectly.
We had probably 30 different children's Bibles and Bible storybooks, too, and those are in the boxes to give/sell as well. WHY would I get rid of those? Because I have come to the conclusion that children do not need dumbed down Bible stories or easy to read Bibles. They need the real thing! And they are capable of understanding the real thing if you take time to talk about it.
So now I have 2 big boxes of books and curriculum to sell or give away. Of course the easy thing to do would be to drop everything off at Goodwill or the library. But I would really like to make some money to try to finance at least a small part of next school year's curriculum. I have an eBay account and have sold stuff there before, but it's such a hassle to list everything and then pack it up and mail it. It makes me tired just thinking about it. So I'm thinking about dropping it off at one of those places that sells your stuff for you on eBay. Only I would lose some of my profit ... but it might be worth it! |
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Posted by Anonymous 
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