Bartaring and helping

I was watching the daily show and found out through Arriana Huffington who just wrote "Third World America" about two interesting Websites:

http://wevegottimetohelp.blogspot.com/

http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/

http://www.chattygal.com/frugal-tips/top-10-online-bartering-and-swapping-websites/

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/online-bartering-websites-tips.html

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   Bartering For Great Deals - The Best Online Barter Exchange ...

   7 Keys to Smart Bartering - US News and World Report

   There are many more in addition to these ones. If you have something you want to bartar including your skills these may be important sites for you to try.

   There is a saying, "Where there's will there's way."

   In life one usually has either money or time. Sometimes after retirement someone has both. Life is about finding something good and useful to do with one's time and/or one's money. IN this time of the greatest suffering since the Great Depression it is time for all who wish to survive to get very innovative.

   In 1980 Unemployment nationwide was at 10% like now. Work had run out where I lived and I considered moving back to a metropolitan area. However, friends told me that there wasn't work there either. Since where I lived was both beautiful and remote and a good place to raise kids my wife and I decided to buy some beautiful but relatively inexpensive land. The catch was that it was on a dirt road 3 miles from the nearest paved road at around 4000 feet in elevation without electricity or phone lines available. It had a septic system and storage with a toilet. We paid cash for the land and sold one vehicle to buy enough material to build an A-Frame for us to live in. Wife, husband and 3 kids aged 5 to 9 years of age. This saved us between 400 and 1000 a month in rent per month for 5 years to survive the recession until there was more work and then we returned to the San Francisco Bay area and bought another business. Like I said in bad economic times you have either money or time. So, by investing our savings and buy material and building our own home because we had time and now land we  saved up to

   $60,000 in rent during those 5 years. Instead it only cost us for land and property taxes and gas and vehicle repairs. We put our kids on independent study through Oak Meadow School and lived off the grid for 5 years and had a mt. Shasta Wilderness experience of Bears, deer, golden mane ground squirrels, flying squirrels, porcupines, eagles, Ospreys, Hawks and lots and lost of snow(sometimes 7 feet deep) and amazing experiences teaching our kids about living in the wilderness, visiting other counties and states and eventually after we bought a business on the coast traveling to other countries.

   Like I said, "Where there's a will there's way to solve any problem." IN fact, if you can psychologically manage it, 

   "There are no problems only opportunities".

   Until you can turn you mind and view all problems as potential opportunities you will stay stuck and possibly not survive all this.

   But if you can look at your life and see whatever opportunities your situation is bringing you then you will just stop worrying and move forward in your life.

   After all, life is always sink or swim. But if you can find a raft or a boat to get on you aren't going to drown. Or you can just swim to shore. It is always your choice.