I've recently bartered with my mechanic...He's doing my brakepads and front discs on the car. I'm felling a couple of trees and pruning back his hedge....Job done 
The barter system dead or alive !
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By the time I had made the knife the puppy had lost his milk teeth and I inlayed one into the handle for him
How awesome is that !!:You_Rock_ Totally personal...
The ways things are going then bartering could be a good solution to cash flow. It brings out that survivalist mentality in me In real life, one hard lesson i've learnt is that far more people will take than give. I love to barter for things though, always hoping that i wont get taken for a mug!
Andy >>>>>------------------------<>
In real life, one hard lesson i've learnt is that far more people will take than give. I love to barter for things though, always hoping that i wont get taken for a mug!Andy >>>>>------------------------<>
Are they the ones that get me to the top of the beanstalk, to get the golden goose
Bernie
Not interested in a sleeping bag and full standard first aid kit for the workplace at all by any chance Bernie, I could do with a decent knife?
Nah didn't think so Lol
A number of years ago, a friend bartered for an African safari for himself and his girlfriend. All they had to pay was the airfair to/from Kenya. He had met a guy that runs some of the photography safari's over there, and they worked out a deal. He became "camp gopher" to "work off" their part of the trip. He would set up camp, help with all the chores, wrangle horses, take down camp and pack for the trip, etc. She helped out with the cooking and dishes (but really didn't need to). But both of them were already used to doing all that anyway. They helped out with hunting pack-trips out in the Rocky Mountains. And he raises/broke horses. So their safari was mostly a fun trip for them - with a little ordinary work thrown in.
I swap all the time. My usually response when somebody wants something from me is "what do you have to trade?" And when I help buddies out with work and they ask me how much they owe me for helping, I just tell them to help me sometime when I need it. I've got two close friends that I swap/trade with all the time. With both of them, we don't even keep track of who owe's whom, and for how much. We aren't too concerned about how the "balance sheet" is tallied up - if we could even remember what all to put on it. (Now, we also do some very specific "deals", but there is still all that other stuff -- "you need/want that? Take it." or "trade me something sometime")
But now I have a couple buddies trying to "even up" the score with me. They are afraid that I might be considering MOVING, and they don't want to be TOO OBLIGATED to help me TOO MUCH with that!
So it goes.
Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
I swap all the time. My usually response when somebody wants something from me is "what do you have to trade?" And when I help buddies out with work and they ask me how much they owe me for helping, I just tell them to help me sometime when I need it. I've got two close friends that I swap/trade with all the time. With both of them, we don't even keep track of who owe's whom, and for how much. We aren't too concerned about how the "balance sheet" is tallied up - if we could even remember what all to put on it. (Now, we also do some very specific "deals", but there is still all that other stuff -- "you need/want that? Take it." or "trade me something sometime")
But now I have a couple buddies trying to "even up" the score with me. They are afraid that I might be considering MOVING, and they don't want to be TOO OBLIGATED to help me TOO MUCH with that!
So it goes.
Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
How awesome is that !!:You_Rock_ Totally personal...
you think that's personal, how about this one:
Last weekend I was commissioned to make a knife for a chap as a working knife and family heirloom. He wants me to inlay his son't milk teeth and a part of one of his own ribs into it! :yikes: Apparently he asked a few other makers if they would/could do it and they all pointed him in my direction. :yelrotflm
His name is not Adam by any chance, seems a guy called Adam did that once before..
Your going to have to put a new tag line on your buisness cards Dave; 'Dave Budd, bespoke forged cutting tools, body parts a speciality'! The state of my knives recently i'd have to put 'Boob Jobs a speciality'!
Over hear, we have things call LETS (Local Exchange Trading Systems). I dunno what the regulatory position is, but they seem to get away with it. I would guess they're formally regarded as co-operatives.
and a sheath of tanned serpent skin to matchCool! - A nice bit of apple wood for the handle would be nice!
i trade with someone that takes the kinks out of my neck, shoulder and back by doing a muscle release technique. i do body work for her in exchange. i often do a trade with other alternative therapy practitioners and would certainly do a trade for other things ( cutting wood, insulating my loft, putting up magnetised secondary glazing... gardening...barter is the way to go !!!
carla
carla
This link is interesting, he traded from a paperclip to a house.
One Red Paper Clip
Do it when I can but have found sometimes it bites you in the rear end.
When looking for above link came across a CNN article, apprently it increases in economic down times, so it is becoming more provalent in the US at the moment. It helps to have a marketable skill.
One Red Paper Clip
Do it when I can but have found sometimes it bites you in the rear end.
When looking for above link came across a CNN article, apprently it increases in economic down times, so it is becoming more provalent in the US at the moment. It helps to have a marketable skill.
when I first moved to Dartmoor I shared a house with a lazy builder, we split the rent so that he paid the landlord in cash and paid the bills, while I looked after the horses Was great while it lasted, except for the trampling and resulting scar on my leg
Was great while it lasted, except for the trampling and resulting scar on my leg 
Barter is always interesting - all my pouches etc are available for a good trade as well as cash - and I have done some great bartering on this site, BCUK meets and amongst local friends - including a canoe cruise of the Tivy in exchange for a Shiatsu massage!
Some of my most prized bits of kit have come via bartering/trading. Often I trade finished goods for makings for future projects.
Hmm - I think I will now start a new thread in the hope of finding some wool blankets....
Some of my most prized bits of kit have come via bartering/trading. Often I trade finished goods for makings for future projects.
Hmm - I think I will now start a new thread in the hope of finding some wool blankets....
