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I'm sure it's a lovely book, possibly even a fantastic book. Set it down and think - when's the last time you bought a book? How many have you bought recently? Have you read them all yet? How many unread books are there in your house? If the answer to any, or all, of these questions scares you perhaps you need to join the Ban on Spending Book Challenge.
The challenge was started by J. Kaye's Book Blog because J. Kaye decided that the book buying had to stop and wanted the rest of us to share in the misery.
For the past six months, I have gone flat out crazy. My spending has become so out of control. I have stacks of books that need to be read and yet, I am steadily purchasing more. Enough is enough. So here are the rules to help curb the spending madness.
The number one rule, of course, is no buying books for yourself (even buying books for others with the intention of reading them when they are finished is a no-no). Free books, promotional books, and library books don't count but do get added to your list. You have to make a list of all the books that need to be read and as soon as you finish those you are finished with the challenge and can buy again. Maybe it will be December 31 or October 31. The point of the challenge is to catch up on what's on your shelves before buying anything else.
The process of just making that list can be scary as The Bookworm found out. She has to read the 29 books on her list before she can buy more.
Breeni is using the challenge as motivation to stay out of the bookstore.
I had just spent the morning combating the wiles of a seductive Books-A-Million Dollar Sale email. What I really need is someone standing over my laptop with a sturdy ruler to give my palm a sharp rap every time I pay my tithes to the Amazon God, but I'll settle for J. Kaye's gentle motivation.
Icedream of Reading in Appalachia admits to cheating a bit before she signed up.
I have to admit that I cheated before I joined, I waited until after a local book sale to sign up! But now I am committed to it. The whole idea is for those of us with a huge TBR pile to actually get some reading done before we go off buying even more books. You can add as many books to your list as you want and once you complete it you can spend again.
I love this idea! Love it! But no, I'm not joining in. I don't do well with strict reading lists and I know I'd just pile more on to my library list to get around it. If I were to list all the unread books on my shelves it would take me close to a year to read them all, possibly even more. Maybe I could do a month without buying books? Hmmm...but there's that book coming out in September that I want, and then those two books coming out in October...
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
