{"id":404,"date":"2009-05-30T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:10:06","slug":"buy-used-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/buy-used-books.htm","title":{"rendered":"Saving Money in Today’s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you but in today’s economy I look for ways to save money both for the ministry and personally.<\/p>\n

Save Money Buying Used Books<\/h2>\n

One of the things I do is to buy used books when it is not for a gift. Getting used books can also be a good way to build your church library<\/a>. Pastors and teachers might need books for research purposes.\u00a0 Often you can find books in new, like new, or very good conditions that can well suit your purpose. Here’s a place I look:<\/p>\n

\"amazon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Generally you will find that\u00a0 more recently published used books will be a higher cost.\u00a0 In that case, if the price seems close to the retail cost, I might buy a new book at ChristianBook<\/a>,\u00a0ChurchSource,<\/a>or\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I do some comparison shopping, remembering to figure in shipping costs from the different sites. (The ministry even makes money as an affiliate of the above sites as a commission is received for all sales that come through the links on this site.)<\/p>\n

If we stop and think about what we do personally, \u00a0in our churches and ministries, there are undoubtedly many other ways to save in today’s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you but in today’s economy I look for ways to save money both for the ministry and personally. One of the things I do is . . . Continue reading Saving Money in Today’s Economy<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-resources-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t