what do you do with your materials after you finish module

I generally sell my teacher’s guides since they usually update them by the time I get back around to that history period (every 4-5 years). And I sell anything that we didn’t love and try to replace it with something that will work better the next time around.

I keep ALL the ‘readers’ – fiction, literature, historical fiction, biographies, etc…because I have let whole packages go and then had to ‘re-buy’ them later.

ALL art books, I keep.

Most science books, I keep. Unless they are full of experiments that really didn’t work, or we were bored silly reading it.

Most videos, CD’s, textbooks and unused workbooky type things, I keep.

Um…this is where an otherwise normal Mom (me) will start to sound a little odd….

I remember them. Not helpful, right?? But true. I literally can not forget any book that I read, so I just ‘keep’ them in my brain. I am sure that ever-growing book list is taking up gray matter that should be used for useful things, like world peace. But that is how God wired me, so who am I to argue :).

However…I do keep book lists in Excel and several lists with notes in Amazon (wishlists). So maybe you could make a special Amazon wishlist with notes on your opinions of the books? Then you could just refer to it when you are book shopping?

And glad you keep those readers! I regret all of the ones we let go of over the years!

I am old fashioned but keep my notes on homeschooling and booklists in a thick 5 subject notebook. It is hard to lose and doesn’t require electricity. If we didn’t like a book or resource then I re-sell it. Otherwise I keep it to use with the next child or to refer back to later.