Show Your Shelves Some Love, No Book Buying Challenge 2015. You got ‘em, now read ‘em!

• Hosts: Chapter Break and Terri from Second Run Reviews.
• Social Media: #ShelfLove
• Goal: Abstain from buying books (or set a monthly book budget) — and focus on clearing physical and virtual to-be-read book shelves for the entire year.
• Challenge Dates: Jan 1, 2015 – Dec 31, 2015.

The Guidelines:

• Abstain from spending money on books for one calendar year (or follow a monthly book budget).
• Gift cards are OK, audible account is OK, but no buying extra credits.
• Encourage other challenge participants via comments, social media, and emails.
• Participate in the monthly posts. (The link up post will go live on the first of each month and be open for 30 days.)
• Library books do not count for this challenge. This challenge is mainly for books you already own.
• Netgalley books can count for this because you have the book, so read it!

No Book Buying Challenge Step 1: Select your goal

• Black-Belt: 51+ books: my shelves and I are going steady – I’m choosing this goal because my reading goal for 2015 will be higher than the 50 books goal I set for 2014.  Over the past couple of years, my way of handling book buying was to save up all the books I had read, and didn’t want to keep, in a box.  After the box was full, I would take it to Half Price Books, and then buy books with whatever money I got from selling that box-full.  This year, however, I want to tighten my spending belt further and not buy any books at all.  Instead, I’ll wait until next year to take my book box(s) to the store, and then put that money into savings.  I’ll probably allow myself to buy a couple books as a reward, but only if I don’t spend a single penny on books in any format for the whole year.  I know I can do it, but the key is to stay away from the book stores!

Will you be participating in the No Book Buying Challenge?