Checking
Out the Savings @ Your Library
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Let’s say
that there’s a branch of government that keeps retail hours and gives away lots
of cool stuff for free. Is that
something that you’d be interested in?
Your public library has been helping frugal households achieve their
financial goals for decades. Walk in and
look around. In addition to the gangs of
teenage thugs monopolizing the Internet terminals and the rummies sleeping it
off in the magazine area, you’ll see lots and lots of young families.
Especially
early on a Friday evening. That’s when
you’ll see the line-up at the circulation desk packed with young, struggling
families picking up some entertainment for the weekend. Libraries have always been there for this
group, and they always will be. Those
people in line will have armloads of bluerays and DVDs, some picturebooks for
the kids, maybe some videogames and a few a novels for the parents. A whole week’s worth of entertainment – all for
free.
Well, it’s
free if you can get them back on time.
That’s always been a challenge when using the public library. Those fines can add up in no time at
all. There really is only one way to
address this, and that’s to have one night a week as library night. That way everything gets brought back. Keep a bookbag at the door and make sure that
everything that’s due gets put in it.
If you can
manage to keep this up, you’ll save money on movie rentals, console games,
books and magazines. What’s more, you’ll
be able to say to your friends, “Oh, no sorry I can’t that night. Thursday is the night my family and I go to
the Library.”
And deep
down, haven’t you always wanted to be the kind of person who could say that?
