Very interesting thread, thanks. Growing up on a farm we did quite a bit of bartering, dad and grandad would load the old chevy pickup with corn, grandpa called them roasting ears, and head for town. He would trade them to the only grocery store in town, Piggly Wiggly, instead of money the store manager gave us a voucher for groceries. Same thing with eggs. All our neighbors would trade various food items with us depending what we had come up good and what they had. Harvest time everyone helped everyone else get their money crops in and you never would have thought of asking for pay for that, it was just something we all did. Miss those days.