Popcorn & Peanuts Shopping Page

Come shopping with me!

This is Mom's area, though all of us are having fun learning about the world of shopping on the Internet.

Just for fun, here's a link to Amazon's new Auction site.

New Books

• Don't forget Lynn's Very Un-Official Charlotte Mason Type Booklist. Hundreds of our favorite titles, many linked to catalogs and on-line bookstores that carry them.

• Lost Classics Books a quote from the catalog: "Lost Classics Book Company brings back children's books you can trust. Each of these books comes from an era when writers directed their attention to the proper training of young minds and souls."

• Faithful Servant's Books Renamed and moved, but it's still Pam's ministry from her heart. If you need homeschool books and cannot afford them, she will lend you as many as she can. You pay the postage both ways, and return the books unmarked so someone else can use them next year. She has an extensive FREE list, too. Pam will accept donations of books, and buys any that she can. Talk to her and see if you can work something out.

• Leola's Good Books A used books source, by another Charlotte Mason homeschooler.

• Linda's Used Books Not exactly a catalog- but this lady sells used books she finds at sales. Most titles are one-of-a-kind, so check back often! She also has links to other used book sites.

• The Book Page Another homeschooling Mom who sells used books she buys at sales. She's good at searching for ones you can't find, too.

• Carty's Curriculum Corner Used book source -"high-quality, previously used educational materials and fun-to-read books especially with homeschoolers and parents in mind."

• Homeschool Treasures Caren's Homeschool Treasure catalog. Caren's good at finding both reprints (meaning new editions of old treasures) and small quantities of old editions.

• EZSchool Vintage books, old ones (not reprints). Want to use the real stuff for your literature? Check these out! Newsletters and articles, too.

• The Curriculum Swap One of many places where you can buy or sell curriculum.

• The Home School Trading Post One of the largest and most helpful sites. Buy, sell, trade, find kid stuff...

• Homeschooling Used Curriculum Sites Dozens of sites and lists, and more "where-to" pages.

• Homeschooling Curriculum Swap Now with a live forum, and archives of past guests.

• Bibliofind If you just can't find that book you must have- this FREE service will help you.

On-line stores I like

• Wal Mart On Line Very good site! Easy to search, and you can order items delivered if you haven't got time to shop (or if your local is out of the item). How easy can it get?

• The Catalog Site If it's got an on-line catalog, or one you can order, it's probably here.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art The catalog for the museum's gift shop offers lovely fine art reproductions, particularly jewelry, as well as books, calendars, and cards--including holiday cards.

• National Gallery of Art Great source for prints!

Click on the Links to these Home Education Catalogs!

• Five In A Row Literature based studies and projects for pre-K to about 4th grade.

• Design A Study How to set up unit studies. The "Natural Speller", and more! Can you tell I love these?

• God's World Bookclub On-Line! Check out the bargains and exclusives!

• Elijah Company Catalog Request their catalog- it's great! Full of tips and essays as well as their favorite materials.

• Timberdoodle Catalog For hands-on learners, kits, sign language, stickers and art supplies, unusual math supplies... be sure to check out the 'drafting' section!

• Farm Country General Store Stampers delight! Art supplies! Natural foods and vitamins. Discount prices on popular texts. Saxon- including the hard-to-find Solution Manuals!
  Email Farm Country General Store

• Rock Solid Catalog on-line Check the monthly specials for ridiculous prices!

• Bridgestone Multimedia Includes Alpha Omega & Christian Book Distributers

• The Sycamore Tree A catalog and a correspondance program offering a diploma, using a mixture of popular curriculum.

• Beautiful Feet Books History unit studies for Elementary and Junior High.

• Sonlight Unit Study/Literature-Based Studies K-9. I don't like some of their choices, but look at their reasons.

• If you are using the Internet for a business, you should be interested in knowing how your page places on the Search Engine results. Here is an interesting program that will tell you! This is a link to an information site with a 30 day/ 3 engine free trial download. There is a 45 day money-back guarantee. It even has free tips on-line to tell you how to improve your placement. I tried it, and it works fine. No, I don't sell it- they do.

• Here's another helpful site for home businesses. WebPromote offers a free weekly email newsletter which is FULL of good ideas and ways to improve your website and how you appear in the search engine placements. Now, they do sell an assortment of advertising packages including bulk email (AKA SPAM), but they have a lot of good tips and ideas, too.

  If you want, Webpromote will even help you write correct Meta tags for your page-FREE! Just visit their site and fill out the form HERE.

  
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• Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch Danny shows you how search engines work, how you can use that knowledge to make searching easier (boring, you say?), and how you can use that knowledge to optimize your own search engine registration (now that's not boring)!

• ConsumerWorld When you're in the market for consumer information, Consumer World is your one-stop shop. This free Web site has gathered and categorized more than 1,500 consumer resources on the Internet.

• I take several FREE newsletters and business discussion lists. Here is where you may sign up for them:

• I-Advertising Digest In the body of the message put the word "join". A weekly digest of discussion by advertising people of what works- banners, spam, direct ads- how much it costs and where to do it. This is real "trade" chit-chat, the nuts and bolts of advertising.

• I-Sales Digest with the word - subscribe - in the body of your message. This mostly-daily digest is serious talk about Internet based Sales: how to get them, how to handle transactions safely. They have a new archive page at: I-Sales

• I-WebReview with the word - subscribe - in the Subject line of your message. This is a moderated sister list to the I-Sales list. It is businessmen critiquing each other's sites by request! I could ask why I don't get traffic, or why people come but don't buy.

• Wasteland For people hoping to increase their site traffic, here is a list of resources for the webmaster.

• Go-Global This business traveler's information page includes an offer for a free monthly list of holidays around the world, emailed to your address. Holidays are identified by date, country, and religious holidays have a brief description. There is also a discussion question.

• NUA Internet Surveys Need to find out who is on-line? Magazine-type site with statistics and usage articles.

• Library Research Guide Market research information by and for M.I.T. engineers (who like to make money from their inventions).

• American Demographics Marketing Tools Product search, marketing tips, and links.

• Fedstats This is where the Government makes available the statistics it gathers. 70 departments in one place.

• Statistical Resources on the Web From the U of Mich Library, an even larger collection which includes many of the Fedstats sites.

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