Frugal Intuition

So I don’t know what happened to yesterday’s post.  There was text.  It was an impassioned plea to find support when you’re feeling like Sisyphus with your debt load.  Too bad I can’t duplicate it.  Oh well.

Today I want to introduce you to a new website I just came across.  Bookmooch is a site where you give away and receive books.  It operates on a points system.  You earn 1/10th of a point for every book you list to give away, 1 point for sending a book someone requests (in country–you earn 3 if you ship to another country), and 1/10th of a point for acknowledging when you receive a book you’ve mooched.  Each book you mooch costs you 1 point.  According to their rules, you have to maintain at least a 2 (mooched): 1 (given) ratio in order to remain in good standing.

The reason I like the idea of this is that my used bookstore won’t take all books.  And when I look up the value of those books on Amazon Marketplace or Half.com, people are selling them for $0.01 (and please, tell me, what is the POINT of listing a book for $0.01 when Amazon charges a $0.99 fee?), so there’s not really any point in listing them there.  Bookmooch allows me a venue to list the books I no longer want and earn what amounts to credit toward mooching books I do want.  It seems like a pretty good deal to me.  Of course, you may have books that nobody wants, but it’s worth listing anyway.

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