I LOVE Library Sales...

Yesterday we went to my parent's house to stay with Mike so that Mom and Dad could go out to dinner to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mom mentioned at about 3pm that she had seen an ad in the newspaper for a book sale at their local library. She had gone to one several months ago and purchased about 15 books for Ethan for just 10 cents a piece. Some were in great condition and others we did not end up keeping because they were too damaged. The ad said that the sale was from 9am to 4pm, and my parents were supposed to leave at 4pm for dinner (and their library is about a 15 minute drive from their house). I convinced Mom that we should at least run in and see if they weren't already picked over, so we zoomed over to take a look. I am SO glad that we did! We got there at about 3:30pm and it was crowded, but not many people were looking at the board books. I started loading some up into plastic bags and ended up purchasing 40 board books for only $2.00!! I couldn't believe they were just charging a nickel for each. All but 2 I would consider to be in very good to excellent condition, and most are current titles including Baby Einstein, Usborne books, Maisy books, Sesame Street, I Spy, and DK Books. I am wiping each of them down with Lysol sanitizing wipes today, and some covers that seemed dingy before look great after they've been cleaned. The retail value of these books would be around $300.00- What a deal!! Ethan loves to flip through books and "read" or be read to. Dan and I are glad to have some "new" books around to read with him as we had many of his others memorized from reading them so much!