Bartering for health

[Guest guest]

Andrew Guruji wrote:

 

The ancient Egyptians attached great importance to garlic, and used it as a

money exchange.

 

My kind of people! I have joked for years that I have more faith in the potato

standard than in the gold standard.

 

Now don't get me wrong: I love cash and would gladly have more with it. But the

absence of small pieces of coloured paper does not have to stop us from

exchanging goods, and especially services.

Once we step away from the world of mortgages and utility bills, what else is

cash but a way to keep track of promises we make to each other?

 

The hard times call for a massive stimulus of IMAGINATION. A better world will

have to grow organically, from the bottom up.

 

If you have a health problem that can be improved by any of the Healing Arts

(they all work) but you lack money, see if you can find a practitioner who will

barter

for all or parts of her fee.

 

I love my cash clients, but in a tiny town there are only so many. I am

currently trading Reflexology/Reiki sessions for handyman services, plant

watering when I was away last summer, and Christmas baking. The exchanges pull

the neighborhood closer together, as well. This increases social capital on the

ground.

I really enjoy my far-flung web of internet friends, but a soulmate in Brazil

can't bring you chickensoup if you get the flu.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

http://freegreenliving.com (blog)

http://wildwholefoods.net (excellent bulk AFA)

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear IEN,

Does not matter from where you are but your feelings are worthy. You may write

for a commodity from Bangladesh on barter basis.

 

A. GOFUR MIAH

Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

 

 

 

________________________________

Ieneke van Houten <ienvan

 

Sat, December 12, 2009 2:19:43 AM

Bartering for health

 

 

Andrew Guruji wrote:

 

The ancient Egyptians attached great importance to garlic, and used it as a

money exchange.

 

My kind of people! I have joked for years that I have more faith in the potato

standard than in the gold standard.

 

Now don't get me wrong: I love cash and would gladly have more with it. But the

absence of small pieces of coloured paper does not have to stop us from

exchanging goods, and especially services.

Once we step away from the world of mortgages and utility bills, what else is

cash but a way to keep track of promises we make to each other?

 

The hard times call for a massive stimulus of IMAGINATION. A better world will

have to grow organically, from the bottom up.

 

If you have a health problem that can be improved by any of the Healing Arts

(they all work) but you lack money, see if you can find a practitioner who will

barter

for all or parts of her fee.

 

I love my cash clients, but in a tiny town there are only so many. I am

currently trading Reflexology/ Reiki sessions for handyman services, plant

watering when I was away last summer, and Christmas baking. The exchanges pull

the neighborhood closer together, as well. This increases social capital on the

ground.

I really enjoy my far-flung web of internet friends, but a soulmate in Brazil

can't bring you chickensoup if you get the flu.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

http://freegreenliving.com (blog)

http://wildwholefoods.net (excellent bulk AFA)