What have you "Bartered" for lately?

[ChristieAcres]

I thought it would be fun to see how everyone is doing with bartering in this economy and in different areas!

Below are (3) pictures. The first shows DH welding on a sailboat rudder. The owner offered to start bartering his work for DH's. Soon, there were a few other small jobs DH did for him. Just yesterday, the owner came over and installed my bamboo flooring for my enclosed front porch (picked the flooring up a year ago via a Craigslist ad---40% of the actual cost that was initially paid and it was brand new and most was in boxes). DH built the enclosed porch onto my office.






DH is painting the molding before he installs it. Then, I will be furnishing it. Once that is done, I will close off my laundry room (was the entry). Happy to revert it to JUST a laundry room, again:banana02:

Next Barter are the "cars." So far, 3 have been dropped off. We will end up with 5. Pics will be posted soon...

[suitcase_sally]

DH need the drive to our pole barn cleared of snow so the propane truck could get in. Bartered for a dog grave dug in the frozen tundra. Friend had snowplow, DH had auger. It worked out good for all.

I traded 3 pretty nice size locust trees (for firewood) to a guy for two 330 ft rolls of hog lot fencing.

[jmtinmi]

This isn't too recent, but my DH bartered handyman work for a bunch of computer related items. Her husband had died a few years earlier and he was a computer-nut. We are just now clearing out the stuff and selling what we can. She got the better end of the deal, as once computer stuff is a year or two old it is obsolete.

[Mavors]

3 dozen eggs for a pint of maple syrup. yummmm!

[belladulcinea]

Peat cups for seedlings with my next door neighbor.

[KIT.S]

A fridge in exchange for some bacon - we needed an extra fridge - extra room to brine meat, put corned meat and the cheese to rest in. (And the bacon came out *Great!* Our first smoked bacon.)

Salmon for our chicken eggs.
Kit

[ChristieAcres]

Awesome bartering results! Amazing how needs like a hole dug, fencing, computer stuff, syrup, seedlings, and even a fridge- you all experienced great trades I like to see what others barter as it gives me even more ideas.

Today, as I took the pictures of the 3 cars, I began thinking of something else. That same guy was cleaning out his shop and also getting rid of other things as he was going through a divorce and moving. He really needed to have help clearing off that property, so having my DH take 4 cars, already dismantle & scrap that large dozer, also got the tractor, will get tools & supplies... all in return for helping him clean off the property & get rid of what he doesn't want. I thought of his chickens... Tomorrow, I am going over and getting some of those chickens to add to our flock. We have 13 layers, with two roosters. I figure we need at least (5) more hens.

I bartered my photos for the gal's website, in return for antique hardwood inlaid tray frames.

Have any bartered on Craigslist with good results?

[uncle Will in In.]

I traded two $500 cats for a $1000 dog once. The dog left and went back home. Talk about a win win deal. LOL

[canfossi]

I loaned my neighbour 6 buckets, lids and spigots in return for a pint of maple syrup. Just didn't have time to do it this year. Chris

[UUmom2many]

I bartered my work on someone's handmade kings size quilt (it needed the backing replaced) for a reel lawn mower.

I'm not sure I'd barter again though. The lady was sooooo picky about EVERYTHING on a very ugly quilt that had been made out of old plaid polyester suits. I paid for the fabric and did everything she asked, just like she told em she wanted it, and when she came to pick it up said that wasn't what she wanted and made me redo about half of it. I think I spent more time buying the backing for the quilt and hours working on it than it would have cost just to buy a reel mower...that needed sharpening.

[FlagWaver]

We barter as much as possible. We get free haircuts and a friend stores her winter hay in my barn and uses my horse trailer, another friend will pull logs off our hill for shares of the firewood, I do computer and paper work for my brother and he "pays" me in homegrown pork.

[SFM in KY]

DH has traded quite a lot of welding for hay in the past couple of years. He also has a small tractor (next size up from a garden tractor) that has a bucket and he's built a blade for the back, so does some local snow removal/ road work for different things ... the one he seems to be happiest with is the neighbor up the hill, who keeps him supplied with peanut butter cookies.

I've traded rabbit meat for some beef and pork ... and think I have arrangements to trade for garden produce this summer.

I used to trade artwork for quite a few different things in Montana ... there was a much more art-oriented population there. Seems like here in Kentucky people say "art" but they are actually thinking of what I call crafts ... quilting, baskets, wreaths, etc. ... not art that you hang on the walls ... so that hasn't been something that has worked very well here.

I am thinking I may try to set up something on line ... and make sure that people are aware that I WILL talk trades. Not sure how it would work with the costs of shipping, couldn't trade for things that were bulky or heavy, but might work something out. Used to do several horse and dog portraits every year ... and nearly always traded some little things for equipment and supplies at the dog and horse shows.

SFM
http://oldgreymareart.blogspot.com

[Cabin Fever]

I am trying to get Seedspreader to trade some of his stockpiled marshmellow creme for some of my surplus ammo. He is driving a very hard bargain!

[InHisName]

trading on the barter board - my garlic for their strawberry plants- , goat's milk soap for fleeces, on another board, goat's milk soap for knitting needles. Fun!

[dogrunner]

We are raising a thanksgiving turkey for friends in exchange for watching our two kids so the wife and I can have a night out every once in a while.

[suitcase_sally]

Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

I am trying to get Seedspreader to trade some of his stockpiled marshmellow creme for some of my surplus ammo. He is driving a very hard bargain!

LOL! Be careful, though. That creme will go bad in the jar after a year or two. It separates into layers of sugar and "whatever".

[lamoncha lover]

I traded grooming services..as in shaving down 2 matted pyenees for farrier services in my horses feet.

[LisaInN.Idaho]

We just came back from 9 days in Florida. The kennel that we boarded our 4 cats and 2 dogs would have charged aproximately $500 to keep our critters but we are exchanging labor: kenneling for fencing (we own a fencing company).

[Oregon Julie]

Traded grooming a regular grooming clients Cocker Spaniels (had a shop at the time) for a weanling Boer doeling. We have gotten many good returns on that deal as she tends to give us twins each year.