10 tricks for swapping your way to free stuff

So maybe money’s been tight lately. tight. If the thought of meeting your family’s needs or bankrolling the holidays in the coming weeks is leaving you with a pit in your stomach, here’s an idea: Embrace bartering.

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Barter deal: Work on apartment, get free funeral

A New York City funeral director is offering a deal to die for.

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NuBarter, a barter exchange company located in Georgia is in the top finalists of the Forbes Boost Your Business Contest.

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More people are finding creative ways to obtain health care. One man exchanged his web design skills for dental care. A medical office in Floyd, VA exchanged medical care for child care and violin lessons.

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A list of ideas for getting by with less, sharing more, and becoming part of a revitalized new economy. Discover services like freecycle, grow your own, learn to fix things, and try out the "barter' or 'swap' listings in your local classifieds or craigslist.

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I used to want to pluck my ex's one by one, while he was all tied up, but umm... I never thought of selling them.

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Although I've written four pieces since 2006 debunking the existence of "pharm parties," the press continues to assert that they're everywhere.

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Some of the strengths and weaknesses of bartering are covered in this article.

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Excerpt: THIS IS ONE construction project that's simply to die for. A Brooklyn funeral director is looking for a reliable contractor to put an addition on his apartment - in exchange for a free funeral package.

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Excerpt: Hark back to yesteryear when people didn't have much money. Instead of using cash, people bartered. They exchanged goods for other goods or labor. Fast forward to today. We're in the same boat money-wise. And people are bartering right and left.

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Every January, 83-year-old Olga Murray of northern California goes to southwestern Nepal for the annual Maghe Sankranti winter festival. That's where she can find impoverished Tharu farmers selling their daughters to higher caste families to work as domestic slaves.

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Boom times for barter When money's tight, cash-free transactions can keep you afloat By Jessica Guynn November 16, 2008

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Video: A Lansing, Mich., man is looking to swap houses on Craigslist.

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Drinkers are queuing up at their village pub to swap home-grown fruit and veg – and even rabbits and fish – for pints. The barter scheme means the pub now boasts the most home-grown menu in the country.

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From : The Fletcher Forum Of World Affairs: Vol. 31:2. Topic: The E.U.'s New Impact On U.S. Environmental Regulation (PP. 91-109)

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Although chimpanzees do engage in noncostly barter, in which otherwise value-less tokens are exchanged for food, this lack of risk is not typical of human barter.

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Bartering and the Benefits of Swapping

What is Barter

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Would you rather have happy friends or sad friends? Rich neighbors or poor neighbors? To most people these are easy questions. To Romanian people, they are rather murky.

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Maybe that old saw about "death and taxes" needs to be revised, since your avatar doesn't have to die in SL, but it just might have to pay taxes.But there is a valid argument that even profits that come from, and stay in, the virtual world are taxable, according to Bryan Camp, a  …

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Mosoma, Inc has announced the launch of its social commerce website, mosoma.com. The site provides a venue for students and employees of colleges, universities, community colleges and trade schools to buy/sell, bid or barter for goods and services.

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Cash in on your experience and the things you've accumulated. Retirement can be more pleasant when you barter for what you want or need

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(audio article) Kyle MacDonald traded up from an oversized red paperclip to a house in Saskatchewan, Canada... He was following in the steps of a game he used to play as a kid where he and his friends would compete to see the best thing they could trade up to.

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Desperate renters go to extremes Rising rents and fewer available apartments have pushed some renters to try bartering for their half of the bill. Among the offers: cleaning, cooking, massage … even sex.

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An Interview with Kyle MacDonald

If you've ever exchanged a good or service in return for something of value, then you've bartered. Bartering has become a successful alternative to cash in recent years for small business owners and individuals, and even large corporations are in on the act, too.

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Trading game: from one red paperclip to a house

Montreal, QC - Kyle MacDonald is well on his way to trading one red paperclip for a house.

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