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Skills Swap Thread

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  • 27-01-2011 2:46pm
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    TequilaMockingBird
    Registered Users Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭


    I need a ceiling painted, I can manage the rest but I have a wonky arm and can't do the ceiling.

    As payment, I can bake, cook, sew, draw, iron, washing, cut hair, grow seeds ready for planting for you, babysit, admin, typing.. I'm sure I must be able to do more but that's all I can think of at the mo!

    Anyone interested in swapping skills?


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    Lornen
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Lornen


    That's a really neat plan, I unfortunately cannot help you with your ceiling but it's a nicer idea than handing someone money :)


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    CityMan2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭CityMan2010


    Back in the late 80's early 90's when the UK was deep in economic recession, several estates in London started Brick Cooperatives, whereby you did a job and got payed in notional "bricks" (credits).

    Anyone in the co-operative could trade their bricks with anyone else in the co-operative, (it didnt necessarily have to be with the person who did your work) with no money ever changing hands.

    Im not sure how sucessful they were in the long term, and whether this would have done anything to help stimulate the economy, but when people literally had nothing, it was a great help.


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    dingding
    Registered Users Posts: 4,931 ✭✭✭dingding


    Was there a system like this a few years ago in Sligo. :confused:


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    Truley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    There are a couple of Irish-based websites that have a system whereby you offer a skill in exchange for credits and can use the credits to pay for other services on the database. For example my friend is qualified in massage and exchanged a massage for a free haircut from a qualified hairdresser. Another friend of mine did some webdesign and used the credits to get on to a cookery course. Will try find out what the website was.


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    magnumlady
    Registered Users Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    dingding wrote: »
    Was there a system like this a few years ago in Sligo. :confused:

    There was but I can't remember what it was called. I think it was based in the Market Yard.


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    Truley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    Wanted: Unused or Unwanted bathtub for making a pond in my garden.

    Offering: Home grown organic fruit and veg from said garden.

    Looking for the bath asap.


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    Slidey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    Damn, I gave away one on adverts a while back.

    Have a look on adverts, there was a few more going for free on it when I placed my ad


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