Use The Library More

With difficult economic times people are cutting back on lots of things. This is a great time to rediscover your local library.

Let your magazine subscriptions lapse. Or most of them, or many of them. Do you really read them all anyway? Go to the library and spend an hour or two or three and read magazines there or take them out.

Stop renting films from Blockbuster and use the DVD rentals at your library. My local libarary rents family films for a week for free. Can't beat that price.

Read books. This is a perfect time to go back to reading as a form of recreation instead of video games or other expensive electronic items.

Read together as a family. Read to each other. Read the same book and talk about it. Redicover your connections to each other.

Go to free lectures, children's story hour or whatever else you library provides free of charge. Some libraries have a tremendous amount of programming, some don't. Check other libraries in your area and see if they have programming.

Libraries are a window onto the whole world.