What have you "Bartered" for lately?

Now owning a fencing company must be right handy in the bartering world!!

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I once bartered 2 days worth of plumbing work for minor surgery . The surgeon needed the plumbing work done & I needed minor surgery done . lol

I just bartered a bred unregistered Dexter heifer for 8 miniature portraits of Ben Franklin.

backhoe use and pond mud soil...wonderful deal

We did a fencing job for an orthopedic surgeon two summers ago and right after it was finished, my daughter snapped her collarbone on a dirt bike. The surgeon was so pleased with his fence, he came in on Labor Day to see her and gave us a huge break on the surgery that plated the bone together. Too bad the hospital didn't need a new fence too.

I bartered lamb for free haircuts for my son and me. Also, a friend with a spinning wheel exchanged handspinning my (cleaned and carded) wool in return for lamb and homemade jam and pickles. Another friend got a newly shorn fleece in exchange for a book and sharpening my handshears.

I bartered an old 3 speed transmission for a digital camera. Also at the beginning of the winter I bartered 4 rims and tires plus a laptop I found in a dumpster for a snow blower.

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Last fall I fixed a pump and got 500 40 cal shells. During the winter I bladed a driveway and got 30 pieces of insulation for going over pipes. I also got trees (firewood) for clearing up an area.

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Lots of great barters! Keep 'em coming. Passing around these ideas can be helpful to any who read this thread!!! Not to mention all of us posting

Today, I asked about a riding lawnmower. Yes, I am now being bartered a riding lawnmower. In addition, have been offered tools/equipment for DH. When I mentioned the greenhouse, I was offered shelving for it. Now, I'll look at the shelving. If it works, great, if not? I might be able to use it in the garden cabin! I don't know yet what he wants to barter in return. Since his house is soon to be sold, maybe he needs help cleaning it? DH may need to help him haul more stuff off.

I am going to go look at the chickens and pick out some. My poor hens are looking "loved too hard, and put up raggy." I like both the roosters; both great protectors. They just love the hens a bit too much So, I figure a few more hens will take some of the "heat" off the others. Hope that was appropriate.

Paquebot sent me tomato & bean seeds, so I bartered back dehydrated fruits & some tea varieties.

I was offered soap for Comfrey roots, but didn't hear back.

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We haven't any done any bartering but my mom is a bookkeeper and she does books for people in exchange for product-it has worked out well. Small businesses are struggling but every little bit of bartering helps eachother out. She gets food/catering, etc done.

We also have traded turkey halves in exchange for babysittting our 3 kids so that we could work on removing a barn we bought at an auction. Also on a weekly basis for erevery dozen eggs i am able to get a half bushel of ground corn complete with mineral supplement and salt. The chickens lay more eggs than we need and i need the feed for the pigs. We currently are removing woven wire from 30 acres of horse pasture that was given to us by a friend. We have a deadline to have it all out by the end of the month before it will be bulldozed. We have friends that are helping in exchange for a sahre of the fencing.