NBR: selling all my classroom YA novels

JLKillion

My husband and I are relocating to PA in 3 weeks and I'm taking a few years to be a SAHM. I need to get rid of a lot of classroom stuff. I have about 20 paper boxes, mostly of YA novels and some classroom supplies. The novels are all in good shape, but do have my name stamped on the top (nothing a black marker couldn't fix). I taught 8th grade ELA and used many of the books for lit circles / individual reading. I do have some lit circle sets, although I packed them up about 6 weeks ago and honestly can't remember everything I have. I'd like to sell them for $120 - that's $6 a box. Is anyone interested or know of anyone interested? I'm totally willing to negotiate.  You can email me at j killion at gmail dot com.

Side note - teachers spend way too much of their own $$ on their classrooms. 

Jess.O

Are you excited to be moving? 

I don't need the books but if you have any other classroom stuff that you decide to sell, will you post it?  I might want some of it.  Thanks!

rssnlvr

I also taught 8th grade ELA for years and donated most of my books when I left. I'm sure there are plenty of schools/ELA teachers who would love to have those!

JLKillion

I am nervous-excited. I love new adventures, but I ADORE Austin and am sad to be leaving. I'm also apprehensive about making friends, truth be told. I'm not the most social person, and without working, I'm not sure how to get started meeting people. I met people here through marathon / triathlon training and work; exercise groups / gym membership aren't in the new budget. I know I need to meet up with some mom groups, but .... I'm sure it will work out. I just don't want to be lonely and don't want DD to miss out.

JLKillion

I would love to donate, but hoped to make a little $ to help with the move. 

Jess.O

JLKillion:

I am nervous-excited. I love new adventures, but I ADORE Austin and am sad to be leaving. I'm also apprehensive about making friends, truth be told. I'm not the most social person, and without working, I'm not sure how to get started meeting people. I met people here through marathon / triathlon training and work; exercise groups / gym membership aren't in the new budget. I know I need to meet up with some mom groups, but .... I'm sure it will work out. I just don't want to be lonely and don't want DD to miss out.

That's understandable.  It's so hard to meet people even when you're working (for me), I imagine it would be much harder when SAH.  I bet you'll make friends, though.  Good luck with it all!

JLKillion

Thanks! BTW: I made the cake-cookies, and they were gone within a day! Thanks for sharing that recipe. They were healthy, right?

AustinBride06

Donate to Goodwill.  My mom told me that it's a pretty decent tax deduction on paperback books... something like $2 each.  Much more than you'd get selling them at Half Price.  I hope you at least got the tax deduction for buying all those!

Chicklit

I have a couple of friends that teach 8th grade at a private school, so I'll email your note to them. If they aren't interested, maybe they can pass it on to other teachers at their school. Are you okay with me giving your email address to them?

If you do end up needing to unload them, I highly recommend Recycled Reads. You get the same deduction as at Goodwill and all proceeds from RR go toward funding the library. What they don't sell goes to another non-profit that turns books and other materials into building materials for third-world countries.

 

JLKillion

You're more than welcome to pass my info along. I'd like to get this taken care of within the next week, b/c right now they're still in my old classroom and I know the new teacher wants to start working in there soon.  If selling doesn't work, I'll definitely look into RR. Thanks!