The 36 Book Exchange on FACEBOOK Explained!
Have you guys seen that post going around Facebook talking about a holiday children’s book exchange? It’s been all over the place and there’s a lot of confusion about– so I’m hoping to clear it all up! This post explains the good and the bad and has an easy-to-understand drawing of how you (could) end up with 36 books and only buy 1!
First of all— it’s not a scam unless your friends are scammers! 😉 Just make sure you do this with people you know, like, and trust. The results depend 100% on the follow-through of your friends and their friends.
How does it work?
If you participate— you’ll get a note/post/PM/email like this:
Welcome to our book exchange for kids! Here’s how it works:
1) Send out ONE book to child #1 below.
2) Remove that child’s name from #1; then move child #2 to that spot (spot number 1!)
3) Then add your child’s name to #2 with your info (name & address)
4) Then send this info to 6 moms or moms-to-be (or grandmothers, or anyone who may be interested!) with the updated name info.
5) Copy the book exchange request that I posted on my wall, to your own wall, or re-word it if you’d like.
**If you cannot complete this within 1 week please notify me, as there are children who are participating and are waiting for their own special books to arrive.
A manila envelope will work to mail the book. Or, you might want to order directly from a web-based book service(Amazon, Barnes & Noble), which saves a trip to the post office like I did!!!! So easy! Soon your child should receive 36 books! What a deal, 36 books for giving just one!
Be sure to include your child’s name and address (age/sex if necessary). Seldom does anyone drop out because you know children love to read and have books read to them Your child should begin receiving books in about 2 weeks!!
#1. CHILD’S NAME (age/gender) 1234 Street, City, State, ZIP
#2. DIFFERENT CHILD’S NAME (age/gender) 5678 Street, City, State, ZIP
Just to recap: send your book to #1, move the name in spot #2 to spot # 1, add your munchkin’s info to spot #2. The people you find will send books to kiddo #1, and their friends will send a book to your kiddo and so on…
Let’s say you were joining my friends’ book exchange—-
Basically— you would buy ONE book for my friend’s little girl. Literally– order through amazon, it ships straight to them. Done.
The hard(est) part— then you find 6 other people to participate. They would be sending books to my daughter, Lorelai, and their 6 friends will send books to your child(ren). If everyone participates– you end up with up to 36 books after buying one.
BOTTOM LINE:
I figure— absolute worst case scenario— I bought a book for someone else and made their child happy and I get nothing but the joy of knowing some little one squealed opening a surprise in the mail. 🙂 Not altogether terrible.
What will probably happen: I buy ONE book and we end up with a few new ones sent to us for our library. FUN!
What could happen: I buy one book and we add 36 new books to our library! (Oh happy day! I will read so much more with this many to choose from! LMBO)
I hope this helps!
(PS– JOIN ME! I’m running one with my friends so if you haven’t been invited by someone else yet– you’re more than welcome to join us! Just let me know! Best to private message me here!)
