Posts belonging to Category 'barter and trade'

Bartering – Sources of Items and Material

Whether you’re bartering a product, service or material, you’ll need a source. Services are largely those that you can provide yourself, but products and materials will need to come from somewhere. They could come from your home, shop or yard, but that would provide a limited supply of potential items and material. I have three [...]

Bartering – The Downside of Trading

Bartering is a good way to obtain goods by trading a different type of goods in exchange. It’s tax free, overhead free, and allows you to obtain things without spending any money at all. You simply get rid of “stuff” you don’t want for other “stuff” that you do. It sounds great, and it is, [...]

Bartering – No Money and No Additional Costs

Bartering is a kind of trading where one type of goods is exchanged for another. It’s a great way of getting things you want by trading away what you don’t want. Your ability to do this all depends on what others have, what others want and what you’re willing to trade away. You’ll see this [...]

How to Barter For a Self Reliant Lifestyle

The other day I posted on helping hands (Self Reliance Sometimes Means All Hands on Deck . . .). Today, I am going a step further– Barter. Self reliance by its very name implies going it alone, but I think cooperation and exchange (barter) has a place in self reliant living. Barter is a non-monetary [...]