Average books per household -Are you average?

Andrewsgal · February 2010

I was reading my parenting magizine and it said that the average middle class household has 13 books per child. This seemed so low to me as we have at least 20 times that. All my friends do too, how many books are in your house for kids?

KoriBrett · February 2010

damn. I think we have more than that in the CAR. I'd guess about 250 total kids books.

I won't even tell you how many DH & I have.

xbrooklyngrl · February 2010

Well it is an average and I'm sure there are many households where they have only one or two or none.

We have at least 100 if not more.

Temp86398625009737 · February 2010

I read that too and was shocked!! We are both teachers, not if that makes a difference, but DD has hundreds of books..books shevles and multiple bins full in every room of the house! not to mention all my old books from teaching

Jamaica_Bride · February 2010

We have a cool million books

) That # seems supah low to me too!!

preemiemom · February 2010

I'm sure that we don't have 20 times that (260), but we have a lot more than 13 per child. I have 3 kids and probably 100 or so books.

GrowingFamily · February 2010

We probably have 350-400 children's books. We are VERY big on reading and we have 4 kids

CBKMRB · February 2010

I would say we have at least 100. We've gotten her books, others have gotten her books and some were hand me downs. I don't think you can have too many books though.

JOEBunny · February 2010

Way too many to count. Hundreds. We also go to the library about 2 or 3X a month and get more. I hate reading the same book over and over again, so we get new ones.

Alibabs · February 2010

I've absolutely no idea how many books we have but loads more than that!

hmmmmm I'd love to know....maybe I should count them....is that sad??

Temp108743750006959 · February 2010

waaay too many books to count. 13 books? that's a single trip to the library!

CleoKitty · February 2010

How is that even possible? It seems like such a low number.

I've not counted, but we easily have hundreds of kids books. We have an entire 6 ft. tall bookshelf filled with them, plus several big rubbermaid totes of books in the basement that are for when the kids are older (all of my old Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames, Donna Parker, etc.) Besides the big bookshelf the kids have a smaller full shelf of books in their rooms and other books scattered throughout the house as well.

Angela814 · February 2010

We have at least 100 books. I've never thought to count.

jerseysunrays · February 2010

We have right around 50. 20 of them are from a series I LOVED growing up- Sweet Pickles. I plan on adding to the Sweet Pickles collection as I come across them. They are out of print and not easily found (except for Ebay).

MIL is a 2nd grade teacher and reading specialist who is always buying books for DS.

katie277s · February 2010

Wow! Rigth now, we probably have about 50 or so, because I just donated a ton of books to Good Will at the end of the year. It's funny that we have that many, as DS only likes 5-6 certain books that we read all.the.time.

KoriBrett · February 2010

jerseysunrays:

We have right around 50. 20 of them are from a series I LOVED growing up- Sweet Pickles. I plan on adding to the Sweet Pickles collection as I come across them. They are out of print and not easily found (except for Ebay).

MIL is a 2nd grade teacher and reading specialist who is always buying books for DS.

Great, now the sweet pickles song is in my head. I had an old 45 of some of that LOL

elm1032004 · February 2010

We have a lot more than 13 books per child.......I have a very large bookcase in the family room and it's half full with just kids books and they have some in their rooms and elsewhere too. I will say though, I do go through and chuck the ones that are ripped and getting gross when we get new ones though, so I would say between 150 - 200 books at any time in our house.

dpdw · February 2010

Do you count the small 4-5 page board books? If so, we probably have close to 100. Sometimes I think it's too much because my kids prefer to read the same 4 or 5 books over and over and over. God forbid if we ever lose the "Froggy Bakes a Cake" book. I think there would be a mutiny.

joy143dh · February 2010

Over 100 at least.

And if someone could tell DS that, I'd appreciate it. We have been rotating through the same ten goddamn books for 3 weeks now.

Halo79RN · February 2010

Maybe many who answered had a number of children or use the library more than buy??? My kids get that amt for Christmas. I could not even guess how many we have. I buy a few every time we get a scholastic order form from school. We belong to a book club. Dd has full bookshelves in her room. Ds has a basket and small shelves in his closet full. Plus they have holiday themed books up in their closets. There is a tall bookshelf in they playroom, a basket of books in the living room and we have a stack on our dresser for when we read in our room. We have a lot. And we've given quite a bit away to cousins and goodwill. I actually need to go through them again. We should use the library more.

goodheartedmommy · February 2010

We have way more than that--probably less for us adults, but way more than that for the kids. I buy books any chance I get.

jen8/9/03 · February 2010

KoriBrett:
damn. I think we have more than that in the CAR. I'd guess about 250 total kids books.
I won't even tell you how many DH & I have.

This. And we all go to the public library 2 x month.

shouldbworkin · February 2010

We're way above average. I feel like we have books everywhere!

knmommy · February 2010

way more than that! Not sure, they are everywhere.

femmegem · February 2010

We probably have over 200 children's books, I'm really not sure. But I used to be an elementary school teacher and so did my mom, so lots of our books came before DS.

4Speedy · February 2010

We buy books off of those Scholastic book order forms that DD brings home--during a very slow month we maybe buy only 10 books. An average month is more like 15-20 books. We've done this for the last two years (although DD had a ton of books before we started with Scholastic). So using a very conservative 10 books a month, 10 months a year times 2 years, we would have at least 200 books. And actually, if I had to guess, with all the extras I buy, I would say it was at least double that.

Littlejen22 · February 2010

Yeah, we have waaay more than that but I have to tell you that many of the books never get used, there are probably about 30 of DS books that get read, a ton that are no longer read and probably 30 or so that have never been read (mostly Disney and Dr. Suess.) Well, those are estimates since DS has over 100 books but DD probably "only" has about 50...plus the kids books in our family room that I did not even count but is probably another 20 or so.

Chrisy-Wyobride · February 2010

We have a regular bookcase completely stuffed full. I have no idea how many that is--100, 200, 300? I really don't know. I've thrown quite a few away because they were ripped, etc. We'd have more, but our house is FULL, I am not kidding at all--I buy more crap & we'll be on hoarders...so I am in the buy something, something gets given away/thrown camp right now...which includes books. DH & I Have 3 mid-height book cases full (4-5' tall) & one full height bookcase full (7' tall). Mostly they are architecture related.

shopgirl78 · February 2010

Way above average, heck we almost get that many from the Dolly Parton foundation per year, which reminds me I need to sign Jacob up because DD 5 yrs is almost over

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