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Spoiled by Books

August 23rd, 2009 at 02:44 am

Our weekend wasn't all leisure - I forgot to mention - we worked a bit too.

I have no doubt mentioned our sweet Scholastic deals in the past. Teacher relatives showered us with their points (for free books). Now, since we live near a Scholastic Warehouse, and the manager has a kid at our school, we have ample opportunity to volunteer in their warehouse and earn tons of free books (& whatever else they are selling - video games, etc., etc.).

As usual they had trouble finding "volunteers" (for $20/hour pay in books). Dh volunteered the only 2 hours he possibly could, during the week. He had charge of the kids otherwise.

They kept bugging him to volunteer more, knowing he usually works many hours (when kids are in school, etc.). I felt bad about the whole thing and offered to split an all-day shift with him. Neither of us particularly minded helping a few hours, but all day was a bit much, with the way things have been. He's devoted his entire weekend and week nights, next week, to the public TV station. & being in full charge of the kids during the week is no easy job. So I am glad he was up to the half day. I didn't mind it at all.

He bought some stuff with his 2 weekday hours, and we donated our 8 hours of books, today, to the school.

That was a pretty decent dent in our "required volunteer hours" for the school year. Not that we won't help more, but have the feeling we will easily make our 30 hours with Scholastic.

Today worked out well. I had volunteered one weekend, and ended up being sick and not making it. Dh volunteered many days, and I kind of took the attitude that he had more time. Well, he did. But things change, and it was much easier to share the work.

The next Warehouse sale is right before Christmas. The last one was right before the kids' birthday. With this deal we don't need to spend any cash on their gifts any more. Works out well!

3 Responses to “Spoiled by Books”

  1. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
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    Ooo, working for books? That sounds good. I wonder if they do that all over the US.

  2. monkeymama Says:
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    They probably do. Dh told me that some people drove for 4 hours for the sale yesterday (they were peeved it wasn't a full warehouse sale - wasn't advertised well). So a couple of people told him that.

    I thought, how lucky are we? The warehouse is less than a mile from our home. Big Grin
    A couple of people asked me how to volunteer so I set them up (knew we needed some more!)

  3. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    Having trouble finding volunteers who are paid $20/hour in books? Wow ... umm.... it's a good thing I don't know where the nearest one is to me. Smile That's cool that you can donate your book$ hours to your school.

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