If your kids keep asking for every thing they see at every store, and you’re tired of telling them no most of the time, take them to the library and say YES YES YES YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT!!!
my mom tried this on me when I was little, and then said no when I wanted to check out with ~10 books, I was so mad
This is the one area where my mom really did great. Every week she’d rent 3-5 new books from the sci-fi section, I literally read 6 floor to ceiling shelves of books between 4-9th grade. I literally read or discarded every commonly released sci-fi book up to that point… It might’ve ruined my eyes, but it opened my mind
(not like she was a bad mom, she had lots of love but terrible advice…)
I worked at a library in college. It was amazing. Truly one of my favorite jobs I’ve had. Libraries are legitimately one of the best things about modern society. Go support your local library folks!!
If libraries were pitched as a new idea in this political climate, they would be called communist and the idea would never get off the ground.
You can borrow films at libraries?!
Yeah I get the kanopy streaming service through my local library. It’s awesome.
I don’t know why more people don’t know about these. For anyone reading, look up the apps Kanopy, Libby and Hoopla.
with a ‘no late-fees’ policy, truly is ‘100% off’ (…your first ‘purchase’ only, probably)
My wife’s library only charges a fee if you never bring it back. No late fees.
In many places an overdue will automatically become lost after ~2 weeks - ~3 months. Then you’d be charged the cost of the item and sometimes a processing fee to cover the costs of preparing a replacement book. If you have a lost book, still bring it in, I would happily waive fees up until the point the replacement order was placed. Libraries generally just want the books back.
I’d be worried that people would not return books and then point to this when they get late fees.
