Books For Sale, Get Your Books Here...

Today was MAJOR reorganization day today at the Hale House. We started at around 2 and didn't stop till 11. Re-arranged furniture in the family room and in the computer room. And went through ALL the books we have. What you see to the right is PART of a stack of books we are getting rid of. We estimate about 450 that will go (and believe me, we kept a whole lot more!). A friend of mine recommended a website - www.webuyyourbooks.com - where you enter in the ISBN number of your book, and they will tell you if they will buy it and for how much. So for about an hour tonight, Ashleigh would read the numbers, Elliott would type them on a handheld, wireless keypad and I would verify the numbers on the computer and send them. If the site wanted the book, we set it aside. If not, the book went into another pile until we figure out what to do with them. After an hour and about 85 books, the site wanted to buy 3 books for a total of a little over $6. Better than nothing I suppose. If we tally up $10 worth of books, they pay 100% of the shipping.

The house looks a lot bigger and more organized now. Moving the stuff around really opened up the place. We bagged up at least 6 big bags of old stuff (and I mean stuff like an MS DOS 6 upgrade package, Ashleigh and Elliott's homework for the past few years, and cookbooks that were never opened...!).

One thing you can say about us Hales, when we put our minds to something, we work at it till we are done! All of us were working on sorting out stuff, throwing things away, vacuuming, moving furniture, etc. Good day!