Stories abound of bartering during the Great Depression. From the doctor who got paid in chickens to the grocer who clothed his family by trading food for shoes, resourceful folks swapped what they ...

Valerie Gates will work for food. She does it all the time. Standing in her Wellesley kitchen, the marketing expert, who doesn't cook much, reaps the harvest of a barter system she devised five months ...

Discover the evolution of money from ancient barter systems to modern digital currencies, including coin minting, paper notes ...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought back the bartering system as neighbors are offering to trade necessities for items they can't buy in stores like toilet paper and hand sanitizer. "I made a pie for ...

BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Even though it's a gardening supply company, Backyard Farming Supply is focused on staying current on relevant economic trends; one of them being the ...

Unemployed since November, Eugene Sobczak wanted nothing more than to aid another cash-strapped soul, gratis, when he read the online ad asking for help attaching a car bumper. Instead, he got an ...

One of the ways folks survived in the past was by using the "bartering system," or trading for things that they needed. The reason this system was so widely used and worked to everyone’s advantage, ...

Until about a month ago, Ari Koontz had never traded food with their neighbors in Providence, Rhode Island. But when Koontz decided to leave part of an extra-large batch of chocolate chip cookies on ...