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One of the ways I stay within our budget is by selling any homeschool books we no longer need and using that money to purchase curriculum for the next year (used if possible). I’ve collected quite a few links for buying & selling online, and I hope some of them have just what you need!
Vegsource Homeschool Talk & Swap
The Well-Trained Mind Sale & Swap Board
Curriculum Classifieds on Google+
A-Z Home’s Cool Homeschool Classifieds Yahoo group
PaperBack Swap (this is my referral link)
Half Price Books (not online, but a great place to look)
Blog it: Do you have a blog? Post a Books for Sale list! You can promote it to your readers, and you will also get sales from people doing searches for specific books.
Don’t forget that you can also Homeschool for Free, and I can help you create a curriculum plan using your freebies!
These are some great suggestions. We saved the most by passing down non-consumable curriculum to younger brothers and sisters and using multi-level curricula like Konos and A World of Adventure or My Father’s World.
We have homeschooled 5 children for over 20 years and have avoided over-spending every step of the way. There are so many ways to save on homeschool materials as outlined in the comments above.
For more used homeschool curriculum options, I would like to recommend my family’s site: http://besthomeschoolbuys.com where homeschooling families can connect to a great selection of used curriculum.
Today, e-readers can make reading the classics that are in public domain a very inexpensive way to offer literature. My daughter loves her Kindle and is always converting books from Archives.org or Gutenberg to Kindle format so that she can read them on her Kindle. It is a great money saving option.
Julie (homeschooling in Tennessee)
Thank you for stopping by, and for sharing your link! It is a very unique and useful site. I will add it to my list. 🙂
Thanks, Amy! I have added this article with used homeschool curriculum links from Amy’sWandering to my Squidoo Lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/buy-used-homeschool-curriculum
Under the module: Buying Used Homeschool Curriculum
And Other Ways to Save Money on Homeschooling
You have a great website –offering encouragement and help to others. That is a very important thing for success in homeschooling.
Blessings!
Thank you so much for your kind words, and for adding me!
I wanted to share with you our new homeschool curriculum website called Homeschool Trader.com. It is a new, easy-to-use site to find and sell used homeschool curriculum for free. We also have some subscription offerings for those who choose to place many listings. Please take some time to learn more about us at http://www.homeschooltrader.com.