Living without money and swapping skills
Living without money and swapping skills
Posted by Viola Woolcott
I have just watched this on BBC News. And I was faczinated by the courage as well as the ideas. If you haven’t watched it on TV, you may want to check it out. It could be JUST what you are looking for. I certainly will look into it 
By Leo Telling Money Watch, BBC Two
When our personal finances are under pressure the first things to go are the luxuries - fewer nights out, cancelling the gym membership and cutting back on the little things that make life more pleasant.
So if someone told you there was a way to claw back some of those treats that eat into your disposable income, you would probably jump at the chance.
Well, actually there is a way, and it is older than money itself.
It used to be called barter - exchanging your goods and services for someone else’s - but today it is more commonly known as ’swapping’.
Thanks to the internet, and the recession, it seems to be becoming more and more popular.
Nicole Wehden, founder of the swapaskill.com website, says that she now has more than 12,000 users of her free to use website, up from just a few thousand a couple of years back.
The swapaskill website allows users to write an online profile which details what kind of skills they have on offer and what they are looking for in return.
Other on-line schemes such as LETS allow people to build up credits by doing favours for others and then cashing in those credits at a later date.
Swapping and bartering allows everyone to get goods and services without spending any money.
…. to read the whole article, BBC NEWS - click here
Living without money, Mark Boyle
Related link:
Swapping Skills
Filed under: Have Your Say on July 14th, 2010
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