A Life of Baretering

Here is a interesting story I ran across today about a woman named Catherine Chipman who made a life of baretering. http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/apr/18/lets-make-a-deal/

I've always believed in barter with other business owner and rising entrepreneurs. This give us other opportunities to grow a great idea and develop a working, trustworthy and on-going relationships and create possible partnerships. Bareter itself is great advertising, the most basic actually, word of mouth.

There are many blogs, niche or micro social networking, and classifieds sites like craigslist.com. Strangers exchange, barter or giveaway items all the time. In a time of a recession it's no wonder why baretering has not caught sooner. There are a plenty of people from graphic designers to real estate agents to massage therapist baretering.

This old time tradition is a testament of time itself and how sound the economy of today's society or world truly is. Bartering is more about giving freely of yourself, gifts, talents, hand me downs, time and a passion. Money isn't everything, though it helps to have, but having something of value someone else wants is worth a lot more.

Like the old saying goes "Another person trash is another person treasure."