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What to offer on LETS?

Here's an Inspiration List of just a few of the many thousands of items and services that have been traded through LETS in the UK. It may give you some of ideas about the kind of things you could trade. If you can't think of what to offer, or what you want, take a look at the list and think again.

Home and Domestic:
Shopping
Returning Library books
Helping choose presents
Kitchen Elf
Washing up
Use of washing machine
Use of carpet cleaner
Window cleaning
Cookers cleaned
House blitz cleaning
Help when moving house
Help with kids' parties
Cleaning up after parties
Extra help when you're ill
Your slave for the day
Ironing
China repairs
Shelves put up
House minding
Waiting in for tradesmen
Plant care during holidays
Pet sitting, dog walking

Food:
Home baked bread
Pies, cookies
Best recipes, tips
Celebration Cakes
Cream teas
Vegetarian freezer
Meals
Bulk buy fod co-op
Garden vegetables
Allotment vegetables delivered
Goats milk and yoghurt
Candle lit dinners
Carribean Cookery
Special diets, invalid
cooking and shopping
Local honey, beeswax
Herbs, home grown
Jams, bottled fruit
Dinner Set, preserving
pans, tables etc to hire
Food mixer for sale

Clothing:
Clothes repaired
Revamp your wardrobe
Curtains made up
Sweaters, commissions
Clothes swap parties
Colour and style advice
Help choosing clothes
Costume making
Mending jeans
Emdroidery, applique
Skis, ski boots to rent
Wanted buttons pre 1960
Clothes rail for hire
Patchwork finished
Fabric crafts, bags and hats

Arts and Crafts:
Personal greeting cards
Poster design, DTP
Cartoons, iillustrations
Old picture frames wanted
House portraits
Batik, Fabric painting
Tie dyeing
Candles and jewellery
Silk screen printing
Darkroom amd studio share
Use of kiln / wheel
Pottery, commissions
Photography
Video Camera hire
Art and craft afternoons
Papermaking
Models for life drawing
Paintings, sculptures
Disco/Band hire
Guitar, Piano, singing
Voice, Dance etc lessons
Trips to the theatre, cinema exhibitions
Poems for birthdays
Storytelling, comedian
Theater group seeks extra
Recording studio
Band seeks practise room
Audio tape copying
Slide projector hire
Marketing of arts/crafts

Building:
Electrical repairs: fridges, music centres etc
Electrician, emergency call out
Video recorder advice
Joinery, carpentry
Plastering
Plumbing
Central heating
Energy saving advice and installation
Architectural design
Tools, ladder hire
Concrete mixer, skip, scaffolding hire
Saws,chisels sharpened
Walls, fireplaces built
Pianos moved
Gutters cleaned
Builders mate, big brawny and brainy
Household repairs

Gardening:
Gardening advice
Garden tool hire. mower, strimmer etc
Weeding lawn
Mowing, digging
Garden gang- sorts your garden out in a day
Use of part of garden for allotment
Hedge laying
Fence erected
Tree surgery
Garden design
Chicken House built
Patios, paths laid/Ponds and fountain/Garden shed wanted
Harvest help
Logs chopped and delivered
Manure
Strimmer for hire
Chain saw and driver

Accomodation:
Bed and breakfast (for your friends when you haven't room)
Storage: Attic/Dry cellar
Garden and barbecue hire
Shed/garage to rent
Room for parties
Stall for Tarpaulin
Marquee
Berth tent and camping equipment, all in
Camping, back garden
Swap houses for cheap holiday of Christmas
People to share holiday cottage
Caravan, temporary site needed
Grazing for horses

Interior Design:
Painting and Decorating
Wallpapering
Wallpaper stripping
Furniture made/restored /stripped/painted
French polishig
Advice on decor
Murals
Marbling
Space saving design
Upholstery

Now let your mind roam over these other categories:
Transport
Business
Office/computing
Goods wanted, for sale or hire
Health and Beauty
Tuition
Childcare

 

 

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