I'm always open to horse trading.

I once traded a 9ft/35lb Boa Constrictor w/55gal aquarium and accessories for a car and cash.

Wouldn’t call it bartering, but my Dad will talk a department store associate and manager down in price on everything from clothes to sporting goods. This is also the same man that took me to lunch at Sam’s...we walked around trying out the food they were cooking as little appetizers to sell the product. It’s almost embarrassing until you see him walk away with deals you couldn’t imagine.

That's more haggling than bartering , just as good .

Couple tips , if you need some drywall but not the whole sheet , ask for a salesperson. I have gotten full sheets with a small corner clipped for $1. They just want it gone.
Also Lowes will generally give you a broken , taped up box of nails/screws for half price , again ask for a salesperson as they just want that gone too.

Mostly just trading around here. Labor manly or tractor hours. Barter once in a while

I guess I do. A week or so of trapping to kill a turkey come Spring.

I barter with my wife all the time. I do what she tells me and she lets me live here !!!!!

Another thing I do along these lines , is called 'Cherry picking'

I go to several stores in my area like Walmart - Target and Home Depot or Lowes. Not looking to buy anything in particular. I walk through the stores just hitting the pockets of items marked down or on clearance. Avoiding any normally priced items. I have just one goal in mind , finding something on the cheap in these little spots that I can use. It is mostly hit-or-miss , with a lot of miss. But when you hit , you hit good. Almost like a treasure hunt. I can shop several stores in quick succession as you only spend about 10-15mins in each store. Plus , even when you come up empty-handed , it is good exercise walking around the perimeter of each store. Good cold or rainy day activity. The thrill of the hunt factor comes in too.

Wow cash only

We often trade goods from our website below for oil sacs or castors or beaver meat.

I love to barter for cash.

I used to belong to a Freecylce thing. You post your skill and it's value. You provide this skill to someone in the group for credit that can be used for another person in the group to provide you a service (or good) in kind that you need.


Sam, Bill and John are in the group. Sam needs his oil changed and a tune up, Bill needs his taxes done for his business and John needs some trees taken down.
Well... Sam does Bill's taxes, Bill takes down John's trees and John tunes up Sam's car and everyone comes out even in agreement without money changing hands.

I bet his wallet squeaks when it is opened. Funny story there.

My wife has a friend that does that. She has a whole spare bedroom loaded to the ceiling with stuff she'll never use. But she got an amazing deal on all that stuff.

My landscaping subcontractor and I have been trading goods and services for many years. Latest was me buying and installing a storm door for his wife and him delivering eleven yards of stone my current job site.

I keep track of everything and we are usually withing a few hundred dollars either way.

I have an older couple that get a load of logs for firewood every fall. Every 2-3 weeks I buck and split logs for 3-5 hours and have a couple beers with them. In about march I always get a phone call "your hog is ready". Its always a 300 plus pound fat hog and not out of a confinement. They are happy and we are happy win win.

Thats a good trade....homegrown hog

When I was unemployed years ago, I traded some nuisance wildlife work for a dental visit.

I raise several hundred chickens and rabbits a year. My best friend and neighbor raises beef, we are always swapping eggs/chicken for beef. This past fall, I was trading tomatoes and zucchini for 1gal bags of crappie fillets. Now, I have honey bees and the fruits of the hive are literally liquid gold, of which holds a higher trade value in my experience.

most definitely

traded for brass

traded for meat many times

traded chickens for stuff a couple times.

not exactly trading but I haven't purchased a garden hose in over a decade , people are generally tossing them out when all they need is a new end or a leak in the middle cut out.

one of my favorite quilted flannels wasn't a trade but it was missing a snap in the store , took it to the service counter said hey this one is missing a snap it is the last one in this size , it fits me , I would take it if you make the price right , 10 bucks and it was mine it started a 39 dollar flannel I have replaced a few snaps now I think they had the snap machine miss calibrated it was not flaring the way it should have more bending it over.


got some nice pants and sweaters that were missing a button or had a thread pulling out also . I bought a sack of BDU buttons wife puts the one for my suspenders , just add one for the fly and I am good to go.

I’m a fan of bartering

I trade labor with a friend of mine, in exchange I get some labor and equipment use in returns.

I once traded a couple truck loads of firewood to a guy and in exchange the guy did some taxidermy work for me