hollowone wrote to deon <=-
It used to be expensive during covid like anything. then normalized a
bit in my country and now a cubic of oak and similarly caloric wood is about eq 100 bucks.
I have a landscaper who's a bit of a barter-er. He trades work for work
with some people and has a community of like-minded people. He comes by
and thins out the bamboo he planted at our house, then re-homes it in
someone else's back yard. He came by with some aloe plants he'd thinned
out from another yard, "borrowed" some extra sprinkler hose from one of
my jobs and came back with some wonderful pots in exchange that he
thought my wife would like. She loved them. This even carried over into pastries - he ended up with 4 or 5 of those big costco-sized boxes of
pastries and was giving them to all of his customers.
He called me one day and asked if I wanted some firewood. He's traded
something for it and had more than he needed, and just charged me for his travel time. I ended up with a good 1/4 cord of seasoned wood and a
backache from carrying it down 2 flights of stairs...
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