Advent - Day 18

[kyburg]

It's pretty obvious - but what can you use for currency instead of cash?

I clip coupons for animal rescues. No, not for the cash - I clip the coupons for all the food, treats, cat litter - what have you - and put that in the can. It's not pretty - but it's better than nothing, and Mom always said coupon cash was like getting money from home.

You can always trade a favor. (I've got this application on my Facebook right now - what it needs to work well is more things to swap with. It's pretty lean at the moment.)

Find a way to barter. Frankly, it's more work than exchanging cash (DUH, that's why we have money in the first place - it's easy), but if you don't have the folding green...but a buttload of walnuts (what IS it with the fekking WALNUTS) from the tree out back - you get the idea.

A quick Google of the concept turned up these two sites:

IMS Barter Network
Barter Bart - a barter 'auction' site. Hmm.

Trade services. Hey, I'll make you dinner if you do the dishes - simplest example at hand.

What have you got a lot of? Heck, even SOME of - that could be traded for something else?

See you tomorrow!

Comments

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

Walnuts? You have walnuts? Need any handmade hotpads? :}

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I've just finished shelling a buttload of them (bought them in the shell at the farmer's market) - but I could definitely part with some of the proceeds....there's a lot of walnuts.

I could definitely come to terms to part with some for hotpads. Oh very yes.

(For the rest, I definitely have WALNUT on the brain right now.)

[ragani.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool idea for a Facebook application. Now to get all my friends to use it too. I don't believe I actually want to propagate a Facebook app, but this one could be actually useful. My mom is big on community dollars and similar barter systems.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

They were at MakersFaire this year - but sadly, the app hasn't provided much traffic.