If you'd like to take home some books for good, check out our Book Sale Corner when you walk in the door. Megan lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.Did you know: Morinville Community Library is currently the only bookstore in town! She's working on her second novel, Champions for Breakfast, publishing in 2024, also with Zibby Books. Super Bloom, her debut novel, publishes with Zibby Books. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post and Ms. Megan Tady is a writer and editor running the company Word-Lift.
#Little library for sale free#
Please excuse me while I haul all of these old textbooks to the Little Free Library down the street. I tend to the Little Free Library like I would a plant start (had I taken one from your yard), and I’ve been delighted to watch the collection grow and change over the last year. Now that we’ve established these ground rules, happy book lending! In all seriousness, I absolutely cherish my neighborhood library, and I get giddy when people actively use it, leaving books they love, and discovering new voices. USB chargers for a device that you no longer own/have forgotten what it goes to The dozens of stickers you got from Trader Joes when your kid just asked for one Rocks you found on your walk that you like but not enough to bring home Marginalia I get it: sometimes things just need to be tucked on a shelf, slid in between a stack of books or hidden away, because throwing them out feels wasteful, or you might want them some day. Things That Are Objectively Unhelpful Take your useless items elsewhereĪ Lego Lions Knights Castle instruction booklet, two pages torn outĪ handwritten IOU for a foot rub (I’ll track you down to redeem this!)Īlready scratched-off scratch-off tickets Plant starts-I love free plant starts in your yard, but please don’t leave a tray of baby lettuces on the ground underneath my library GU Energy gel (actually, that came in handy once when I was locked out)
#Little library for sale full#
Soy sauce packets/extra chopsticks because your soy sauce packet/extra chopstick drawer is full
Halloween candy rejected by trick-or-treaters (stop buying Necco wafers, for the love of God!) Your headshot and/or Glamour Shots from the mall when you were ten years old and that was all you wanted for Christmas, but then you got them back and you looked like a mean realtor who smacked people’s hands away from the cookie platter if they came back for seconds*Ī locked diary with just enough give so that I can read a few pages of your poetry, but still locked tight enough that no one else can use itįood This is not a teacher’s lounge, where you can dump the stale muffins that no one’s eating at home Self-Promotion A Little Free Library is not a community board, so please don’t leave:Ī flyer for your tag sale, even if you write in all caps: HUGE! (unless you’re selling a decent patio table, because I’m looking for one)Ī brochure for a walking tour that you’re leading The huge stack of books that no one’s taking from your Little Free Library Great Courses boxed sets about the history of ancient Egypt Irrelevant child-rearing handbooks in which the entire book could be summed up in bullet points
Your old textbooks that you’ve been meaning to offload for yearsĪ Foreman Grill cookbook with recipes you’ve starred: Loved the lamb chops! To that end, here’s what not to put in my Little Free Library: Tomes Books so massive and heavy that nothing else can fit Little libraries are a receptacle for the odd, the old, and the out-of-place Folks are not just passing on the latest Elin Hilderbrand or a dog-eared copy of Tuesdays With Morrie. Think it’s just a bunch of paperbacks? Oh no, my friend. It’s a good thing I’ve been paying such close-verging on obsessive-attention, because I’ve discovered that people drop off all sorts of things in a Little Free Library. I’d tumble through the kitchen door and excitedly announce to my family, “There’s a Louise Penny!” To which my four-year-old would reply, “A penny? Yay, we’re rich!” Not stocking, like, with great reads, but stalking to see who was taking books and who was leaving books, endlessly checking and re-checking the inventory. Kudos to my husband and kids for a great gift, although I think they came to regret it when I very quickly started stalking the library.
(No, Beyoncé didn’t invite me to be a back-up dancer on her next tour, but probably because my phone number has changed since she asked for it.) It was my other dream: to have a Little Free Library in my front yard.
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