This book is on its last leg.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words. It's kind of a 104 project instead of a 365 project.
I bought this Saxon 54 textbook used, as I do with most of our non-consumable curriculum, and it wasn't in super great shape then.
(I think it was maybe rated "good" on half.com, and that's only one step above "acceptable".)
Now that it's on its fourth user at our house (Zoe), the pages are wrinkled and the cover is held together with packing tape.
Even so, I'll probably offer it up on freecycle when I'm done with it. I bet some homeschooler somewhere will want it!
Slightly related thought: now that Zoe is doing fourth grade work, I find myself in the strange new position of getting rid of homeschool curriculum each spring.
Every year before this, I've been steadily accumulating; buying curriculum for Joshua, saving everything for the girls.
But when Zoe is done with something, we really are done with it and I get to pass it on rather than shelving it for future use.
P.S. In case you're new to it, here's how freecycle works. And here's more about half.com, a great site for selling and buying used books.
As a former teacher I know how quickly schools get rid of textbooks. The waste always drove me crazy! We'd hold onto old books with outdated science facts, but buy new ones for subjects that never changed. It killed me! It's great that you're able to find good books and pass them on to other kids.
Yeah, it's not like math has changed much in recent history!
Although, I've seen the homework some neighbor kids bring home, and they do have kind of a weird way of teaching math concepts now. Their method for long division is completely confusing to me. Ha.
Ah, good to know about Half.com. I have had an extremely hard time letting go of some of the books and activity kits I used to homeschool my youngest (we stopped homeschooling five years ago now!) and the headache of trying to sell them on eBay or other sites has paralysed me. I'm not on the local freecycle site because the main people running it are... not people I enjoy and I'm not a Facebook user so I can't list on their sites either.
I was just going to give them to the library for their fundraiser sale but why not make a few bucks myself? I'll check out Half.com. Do sellers get paid in real money or in half.com credits?
Do you have a referral link since you're a user yourself?
You get real money. I bought and sold my college textbooks that way and save BIG bucks. As far as I know, there is no referral program.
Also, if you have textbooks that you can't sell, Better World Books is a good donation option. Often libraries have just as much trouble getting rid of old textbooks as you do.
Interestingly enough, Better World Books sells a lot of their books on half.com!
Thanks Carla. Mine aren't really textbooks (the ones that I did have I took to the thrift store where I know local homeschooling families "shop" for curriculum) but mostly reference books and books I bought to illustrate certain historical periods or scientific subjects. I also have a TON (seriously, those bins are heavy!) of hardcover and softcover children and young teens books that my kids are done reading so I think I'll definitely try to sell those on Half.com. My library can't take my books until early June anyway (their fundraiser is in July and they don't have the space to store the books right now) and it's driving my husband crazy that we have crates of books sitting around in our entry room so if I can whittle it down and earn a few bucks in the process, that might appease him, lol.
Yep, it's real money. I don't have a referral link, but you are so sweet to ask! I think there's an affiliate program, but for one reason or another, I have not signed up. I guess I should look into it.
Also, I just noticed that we can't sign up to follow individual post comments via email anymore. Did you change something in the settings? It was very useful (for when I ask questions, for example!). Thanks.
Oh, thanks for reminding me! The plug-in I had for that was out of date, and I need to install a new one.
Alrighty-I uploaded a brand new plugin for subscribing to comments, so you can give it a whirl and see how you like it!
We're only planning on having one kid, so now that she's 2 we're already starting to think about getting rid of the baby stuff. It's kind of sad, but I'd like to get it out of my house!
As long as you can still read it, I think someone will be able to get some use out of it!
By the time Zoe grew out of baby stuff, I was THRILLED to get it out of the house. So great to finally have the swing and the bouncy seat and stroller out of the way.
I LOVE Saxon math and I'm using the 54 curriculum right now with one of my Deaf students. The repetition is wonderful.
Now that is a well-used textbook 🙂
I'd love to own that well-loved Saxon book. I could send you $$ to ship it to WI when you're through with it. I don't remember how old Zoe is, but my #2 (of 3) is in 1st grade, but more like at 3rd grade for math - we're working with him more at home, since the school has limitations in that respect. We'd definitely get good use of the book.
Ok! I will give you a shoutout when we're done with it this spring. I have a solutions manual for it too.
I'd start getting rid of the baby stuff as kid #4 outgrows it, but I worry that's just tempting fate...
Well, yeah, I wouldn't have gotten rid of things if there weren't permanent measures in place to ensure Zoe's place as the last kid in the family. 😉