Barter system for old clothes.  

Other than freecycle or thru church or friends & family no there isn't any kind of barter at all. Basically you have to donate your things and get nothing but realize you are helping a chairty or toss things out and fill up the landfills.
I wish I knew someone to trade my kids clothes for bigger sizes ect but I don't. So I just hit the rummage sales.

In my city i.e. Chandigarh these kind of vendors still come. But the stainless steel that they offer in exchange of our old clothes is not of very good quality. Another problem is that there is very limited option for u to choose from. I too have one permanent lady who comes to my house after gap of every 3-4 months. She never listens to no and keeps on pestering till the time I bring out some clothes for her to take. As I have enough of steel utensils at my home, I have now started keeping all these utensils for the wedding of my maid's daughter.

hello ramesh,

Yes,i had experience like this here in our country.
And that was long time ago...maybe 10 years ago.
People selling plastic wares...basin,pails and containers.
I can still remember i got a basin and a laundry basket from our old clothings.
But,now,i haven't seen or heard those people doing this kind if barter.
It's good in your country,still it is still with the circulation.

Have a good weekday ahead

Unfortunately we dont have such a system here but that would be a lovely system because it would help cut down on some of the wastage and overuse of resources .I mean I have a lot of old clothes and many other persons who are not that old .I am thinking that many persons would love to have them at reduced cost

To my knowledge, there never has been anything like you describe in the U.S. When I was a child, there were what one might call peddlers going around the countryside, but they sold things for cash money. Once in a while they would trade for chickens or eggs. All the farmers now have cars that they can drive to town and buy whatever they need, so the peddlers have had to find other jobs.

Here in The USA Bartering isn't really done. I'm sure there are some small time bartering, but there's none around here (where I live) that I know of. I think it would be a great thing to bring back, but with places like good will, the red cross and salvation army, there's really no need to barter when you can pick up donated items fairly cheap.

Hi, Yes some time back people used to come to our house and collect clothes and in return stainless steel utensils. Now they are not seen. I think that happened only in India. Bargaining with them was hard work. These days people from orphanages come to collect clothes.

I believe this (getting stainless steel utensils for old clothes) system prevailed in India. This happened because of the need of that person selling things, instead of money he got used clothes at low rates. But later on people though of donating the used clothes to poor and needy people but after one point of time they also said they cannot accept as they want only new clothes. Now is almost all the countries if we want to donate some clothes to needy people, they have a rule like it should be washed and properly ironed so that those people will not feel bad in using that.

Yes ramesh!I can't see them too now as before.They will be roaming the streets for the exchange and their target is the ladies at home.They have to bargain a lot before getting used worn out clothes.And there will be still another type of vendors who exchange waste iron to dates.
I think these people have changed their profession.

Hi Ramesh,

Yes. i learned about this in our social studies and history subjects. there's no money then...it's an exchange of goods and products. i can't think of the same thing that is happening now in our area. how about you?