Has anyone thought of doing this. No money changes hands, you pay no taxes and its a great way to save money.

I've bartered a craft item for hand made soap and was able to get 6 bars of soap for an item dh had made.

I bartered my bread machine for some Christmas craft items I wanted.

I've bartered babysitting for babysitting.

I would like to get more into this. How about you, have you thought about this or ever done it.

I would love too, I just don't know where to start....

same here, i was thinking we could barter on the auctions. I dont' know how well it would work but besides paying the diffrence in shipping or something. worth a try though if we had more auction people.

Good idea..... I would like to barter some crafts for Christmas..... I'll post some pictures......

kewl i have an auction up but i am sure i can come up with somemore stuff. i am doing cheap christmas so i am more than willing to barter for somethings.

DH has bartered for house materials when we were fixing up our house. When we had the trucking business, we used to barter dirt for windows-LOL. We even bought a van with 7 loads of topsoil and $1,000. We had that van 8 years. It didn't owe us a DIME! Bartering is great if you can work it out with someone so that you both benefit-(duh, isn't that the point of bartering-:crackup: ) DH still trades stuff with people. He's rather good at it.

I've done this online before.I really like it.Kinda like the coupon trading but with actual stuff.I've bartered a rotisseri cooker for the Complete TWG,craft books,and some other things.I've bartered my little girls clothes to someone who had a little girl a year younger than dd and a son a year older than ds,so he got some jammies.I love this idea so much.Sara Sara please add it.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SARA:smball: LOL

I would get into this too, you guys! I want lots of things I can't afford and I have a lot of things I don't need. LOL

SAME HERE SHERRY SO THEN SOMEONE START SOMETHING SOMEWHERE AND TELL ME SO I CAN COME GET IT ALL.I LOVE TO SHOP AND WITH 95 DAYS LEFT I HAVE TO GET INTO GEAR.

We should see if its ok with Sara... then maybe in the Peddler's Courtyard we could start a Bartering/Swap thread?

excellent idea. i was thinking the auction sight. I will buy if you have it and i want it and i have nothing that you want. I don't mind.

We could probably work something on the auction site too. I don't know.
I left a post in Behind the Scenes for Sara. We'll see what she thinks. :)

yes i see that thanks sherry. we do bug her don't we. :eek:

She loves us though! :D

I wish I could find someone to barter things with, but it seems like people are too busy.........and would rather buy new.

This sounds like a good idea. I also have no money and am looking for ways to pay for christmas and just help out around the house. I also have stuff!

Well... post it, dolphin!!! :D

My husband barter's all the time! (He is an electrician). Mainly he does electrical work in exchange for work done on our van or etc.