Retail Anywhere
This just has to be addressed. Book fairs are popping up everywhere along with the spring flowers. I used to love them. Trouble is, they are just so crowded and there's too much to see in too little time. And they can be very expensive, as far as admission goes. The less expensive, the bigger the crowd. Oh, what to do?

The point of this post (and hopefully others for other geographical areas) is to help homeschoolers know where they can go to buy/obtain material. Obviously book fairs are a starting point. There's a list of them in my 'Homeschool Information' page. A public library is good, too, especially when using something like the Charlotte Mason Method of teaching.

I pulled my kids out in October, back when teachers went on strike. No one was going to throw me a book fair for the glorious event, so I had to find retail outlets, too. That's what I'm hoping to achieve with this type of post - a homeschool material vendor's directory.

Many of the vendor's at a book fair do have companies large enough that they also have websites. Most have on-line ordering and everything! :D www.abeka.com, for example!

This, too, will be better if more people add to it, so feel free to add what you have!

oh, did you ever think of www.freecycle.org? I've met a few people who got free homeschool material from there! ;-) Our local group is now brantfordcheapcycle. There's a link for that back in 'Favourite Websites' page.

Don't forget to check you local thrift stores, too. I know one year a local Salvation Army benefitted from a family of nine moving away.