Posted on 06/10/2011 6:59:59 PM PDT by blam
There was a barter system among professionals in the DC area back in the 80s/90s. For instance, an architect could barter office or home remodeling for a dentist who worked on his family’s teeth. Someone ran the program and figured out relative values. Worked pretty well.
With apologies to Shakespeare, “the first thing we do, is chuck all the lawyers down the septic tank.”
Heck, at age 55+ I would have taken the cans and turned them in.
Oops. 22 was intended to be a response to you.
I am not surprised. After a few trades I think most people would figure out the value of one good in terms of another, especially since each one would be providing one of the goods and not just currency.
I am sure the barter system in DC was set up to avoid taxes, whether income or sales.
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I thought they were staples...
I am sure it was all about avoiding taxes. Tho I see from another post that it’s now become taxable, maybe why I haven’t heard of it in a long time. Seemed such a good idea!
Still common here, Hubby just laid some tile for a load of manure to use on the garden.
There are still barter ‘clubs’. My cousin’s daughter works for a printing company. The owner belongs to a barter club and is always giving her stuff that he traded work for....tickets to Magic Mountain, Seaworld, etc. That is just the stuff he gives her family.
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Some of those mixes were really more tasty than the pure flavors.
Any ideas of what to do if we are invaded or occupied after a collapse?
My mother-in-law kept an account journal in 1939 in Colorado. Her husband was away for many months shearing sheep.
She kept house, raising a garden, chickens, and pigs. She took in a boarder, an elderly man, and did laundry for him.
She didn't write extensively about life in general in her journal, but it was interesting to see that the price of a dozen eggs started the year at about 11 cents and increased to 18.
The last entry in the journal was one of celebration. Taking into account all of their income and all of their expenditures, they finished the year $10 ahead of where they started. It took a lot of work.
Those light-blue helmets would make dandy planters if you shoot several holes in them to permit drainage.
Mainly because the rest of the world is still building up their supplies. But absent a full breakdown in international trade, the Chinese and Arabs will want real money for their products and there will be middlemen who will buy your PMs to use over there.
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