My bookshelves are overflowing with books that I haven’t read yet and let’s not even discuss my virtual shelves on my Kindle. To fix that, I am going to participate in the Show Your Shelves Some Love: A No Book Buying Challenge! #ShelfLove.
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Abstain from spending money on books for one calendar year (or follow a monthly book budget).
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Gift cards OK, audible account OK, but no buying extra credits (Rose!!!)
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Encourage other challenge participants via comments, social media and emails.
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Participate in the monthly posts. (The link up post will go live on the first of each month and be open for 30 days.)
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Library books do not count for this challenge. This challenge is mainly for books you already own.
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Netgalley books can count for this because you have the book, so read it!
The Guidelines
No Book Buying Challenge Step 1: Select your goal
Yellow Belt —-> 1-10 books: shake hands with your shelves
Blue Belt —->11-20 books: pat your shelves on the back
Green Belt —->21-30 books: give your shelves a warm friendly hug
Purple Belt —->31-40 books: regular date night with your shelves
Brown Belt —-> 41-50 books: my shelves are now my bff
Black Belt —->51+ books: my shelves and I are going steady
My Spending Goal: Because we have our local Friends of the Library book sales twice a year, I am not going to kid myself into thinking that I will not buy any books. Instead, I am going to set a spending goal of $30 to spend on books purchased from the FOTL book sale only. I will either spend it all in April or October or divide it between the two sales.
Other than that, I will not purchase any other books this year. My shelves will be thankful for that.
My Reading Goal: I am going to be realistic for 2015 and aim for the Purple Belt. I usually read a lot of books. In 2012, I read over 300 books, over 200 in 2013, and over 100 in 2014. But I am starting school in 2015 so I am setting my goal lower this year.
To join the challenge check out Chapter Break's site.
3 comments:
What a great goal! I love that you still want to participate in the library sale. Those are great events :) Looking forward to seeing your monthly posts.
Welcome aboard, Lennette!
Terri M., the Director
Second Run Reviews
Thanks for joining our challenge! I had to lower my reading goal for 2015 because I am starting school, too.
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