How to use "timebanking" to barter with your neighbors for goods & services

Last month, Cindy Jayne, Eastside Timebank Project Administrator,   introduced "timebanking" to the City of Redmond during an "Items from the Audiance" presentation to city council.  (Everyone is invited to speak to council at the beginning of their regular meetings.) 

From King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert's newsletter:

Timebanking is a “better than bartering” system helps stretch your dollars in a tough economy. When you spend an hour doing something for another member, such as yard work or transportation or haircutting, you earn a "Time Dollar" that you can then use to receive an hour of service from another member. It doesn’t have to be the same member, and everyone’s time is valued equally.

Timebanking builds community.  It creates a network that lets you get to know your neighbors and builds an old-fashioned extended family of people who take care of each other.

The Eastside Timebank pilot project in Kirkland is expanding to residents in Redmond and Bellevue, who are invited to an informational meeting about how to get involved:

Thursday, March 31, at 7-8 p.m.
North Bellevue Community Center
4063 - 148th Ave NE, Bellevue
Email:  cindy@eastsidetimebank.org

More information is available at http://www.eastsidetimebank.org/ .
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