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#162396 - 10/11/08 07:43 AM
Re: Current economy affecting you?
[Re: Dancing Dolphin]
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The Divine Ms M
Registered: 07/07/03
Posts: 4894
Loc: Orange County, California
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Last week I went up and down the farmers' market with my jewelry to find more people to trade with. Regularly I'm trading with 1 fruit vendor and 1 vendor for soap and body products. Last week I added 2 vegetable vendors, flowers, and goat cheese. 5 small tubs of goat cheese for a really nice pair of earrings. 8 lb. long-neck orange squash, 3 lbs. zucchini, 5 purple bell peppers, daikon radish, cucumbers, 3 lbs. organic tomatoes, 2 lbs. grapes, 2 bags of bagels, fresh basil and chives -- all gotten in trade. I could hardly fit it in my refrigerator!
All great quality and mostly organic. Maybe 2/3 of this week's food traded for. I combine the veggies with rice or pasta and tofu/veggie meat for dinner every night. Different spice palate and presentation to vary it up.
So I'm eating very well and several of the farmers have new earrings!
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#162907 - 10/16/08 05:57 PM
Re: Current economy affecting you?
[Re: meredithbead]
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Registered: 01/16/07
Posts: 3404
Loc: USA
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I've heard story after story of how my maternal granddad bartered his services (chiropractic). My grandmother gardened, had chickens and cows, so didn't need many goods. But, for his bone-cracking services, my granddad would take any goods, alive or otherwise.
More bartering will probably take place if things get worse. Craigslist has a barter section (under 'For Sale'). I belonged to another bartering site in the late 90s. It no longer exists, but I'm pretty sure there are others that have popped up.
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#163192 - 10/19/08 01:39 PM
Re: Current economy affecting you?
[Re: keyholes]
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Registered: 11/22/02
Posts: 1149
Loc: Ohio
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Edited by DJ (10/20/08 11:55 AM)
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#163200 - 10/19/08 03:47 PM
Re: Current economy affecting you?
[Re: DJ]
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Registered: 11/15/05
Posts: 2798
Loc: NM, transplant from NJ
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DH is already getting a big garden ready for next year. He says that in a crisis such as the current one, a household is richer if it has lots of cow manure!
We are also consolidating trips, taking fewer to town etc. Of course the unplugging of appliances etc. The goats are helping to eat weeds so we don't have to mow so much.
Keeping our soap prices lower than competitor's prices so as not to "gauge" customers...but to pass on the savings.
Eating what is on sale rather than buying what we are used to buying at the grocery store.
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#163261 - 10/20/08 02:58 AM
Re: Current economy affecting you?
[Re: chatty lady]
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Registered: 01/21/07
Posts: 3675
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Just to give folks an idea how much I spend on transportation annually since we don't have a car: Under $2,600.00CAN. This excludes any airfare. (Of course I have flown (twice) this year....for job interviews but recruiting employer paid the bill.) Does includes bus trips, several ocean ferry rides for vacation trips this year. Of course, includes cost of my local commuter train and bus passes for work commuting PLUS bike shop work on bike tire flats and mechanical adjustments. We haven't rented a car this year for a vacation yet . Last year we did rent a car for about 3 days for all of 2007 and only for a vacation trip.
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