This…is…EPIC. 
Nice set up. Is that a pop up green house? What kind of medium are you using?
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I remember swapping my lunches with a friend whose family was from Korea. I gave him my peanut-butter & jelly sandwiches for his sushi rolls. We both thought we were getting a steal as we were both trading items that were abundant for us, but very scarce for the other.
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I built the greenhouse post-lock-down, so everything came in flat pack boxes from Amazon. My front yard system is from much more decentralized sources. Greenhouse is foam in plastic net cups. Front yard is Hydroton. I just struck a deal with my next door neighbor on the other side. He’s got a ton of old hydroponic kit from his failed weed farm. I’m going to triple-down on the Hydroton beds over the summer with his assistance. At this rate I’ll open a veg stand on the driveway soon and start hustling local caterers (restaurants are toast) to move product for crypto. 
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I was with a group travelling in a remote area and we had a bad tyre so we stopped and exchanged a re-fit for some of our diesel and a bit of currency (which was hard for them to come by). They also served us great coffee while we waited. Both parties got what they needed and both parties traded what was scarce for the other but plentiful for themselves.
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I recently exchanged my value of being a percussionist in a local orchestra for the value of receiving conducting lessons in return from the conductor. Yes, I believe it was a fair exchange - especially considering I get the life experience of someone far older than me in a field that I’m interested in.
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Brilliant! Definitely keep us in the loop.
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I’ve noticed nobody’s posting on Minds.com about #aquaponics. I’m moving to corner the expertise market there as an early adopter. Follow me over there for more. I’ll be expanding to Voice and ThreeFold soon with the same idea.
Around my 16th birthday, I exchanged my PS3 against 2 mobile phones. I remember at the time, the PS4 had already been announced and I bought it shortly after by selling those phones and adding some extra money from my pocket. 4 years later, I purchased another PS3 as I thought the Playstation devices would eventually become collection pieces in 20 years form now. Today, I have all 4 machines and would gladly sell them to a collector for an astronomical price in a couple decades or more.
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I traded items with a friend. He had a collection of baseball cards and he didn’t have money, but wanted 3 slices of pizza. He was willing to trade his collection for pizza and I was willing to buy him the requested 3 slices. The barter was completed. I guess he was happy, because he enjoyed his slices of pizza and I was thrilled because the cards he traded me were worth 5x the fiat I spent that day and became worth far more 6-7 years later. I definitely ended up on the right side of the barter agreement.
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I had a barter situation with my first company. They set it up with other vendors, restaurants, hotels, services etc. At the time I had a plant service and they had a boutique. I barter lots of my items and then when I went to spend the barter dollars I had a hard time spending it because the other vendors were not that great. I believe I went to a hotel that wasn’t very nice and yet I sold very nice accessories. Had I realized I would have charged much much more for these items.
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This is a tricky question as me personally I never asked myself how the monetary system works until I started working and noticed that it’s not easy to make a decent living. Fiat was always my medium of value because I didn’t know any better.
But in high-school, I played a lot of badminton and my racquet broke, I then exchanged a high quality badminton racquet (+/- 100 €) for 4g of some special herbs. Looking back I made a good deal and the counter party got what it wanted so the exchange was fair because both parties agrees upon with it on their free will.
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I recall bartering lunch as a child. Yes I think it was fair because both parties were happy with the exchange. We both got a lunch pack with something in it that we wanted. So all good.
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I bought a Led Zeplin T-shirt in Thailand. My friend said he loved the T-shirt and wanted to swap it for his bar’s promo T-shirt: ‘Escape Bar, Dalat’ (Vietnam) which I was quite happy to do as we had had a few drinks after playing a great gig together. Initially we were both happy, but the next day both realized that the T-shirts were too small for him and too big for me! 
So although it seemed like a fair trade in the moment, it was an ill-thought-out one! But the good news is my friend gave his undersized T-shirt to another close friend who was the happy new owner of my T-shirt!
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I can’t personally recall any trade as a child, but I do remember making cheese and taking to a farmer’s market to sell it. The goal was to sell all the products. To star with, you sell for the max price and as the day goes, you reduce the price. I was 16. Not sure if it answers the actual question?
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Marbles Marbles Marbles. I won them, I traded them and I put then in my bank (A white plastic bag).
Thanks for reminding me of a fun moment in history 
Peer to peer trading - pokémon cards etc.
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Many barter transactions , at 12 13 years old, when was common to exchange rare football sticker with many of the less rare/common ones, so like to get one rare sticker for 5/10 “not rare” , this cause the quantity had its value for sure but with the rare sticker you were able to complete the stickers album.
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In middle school I use barter my math skills to do homework in exchange for a bike ride home. Looking back it was a great exchange, i loved math and the homework was easy, saved myself time and energy, and ended up with a best friend for life.
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Lunch time activities, or more recently with MRE’s. Dehydrated Milkshakes always garnered many coffee sticks. Win-win for all parties involved. I highly disliked the milkshakes but always craved the coffee and the others involved in this trade were the opposite.
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