While the papers are full of doom and gloom about the rising price of ….well, absolutely everything, we may well be wondering what luxuries – and perhaps even essentials – we may have to give up. While we set about tightening those belts yet another notch this may be the ideal time to stop thinking ‘money’ and think ‘barter’ for the goods and services we want.
While many of us a charity-shop bargain, others maintain an aversion to buying second-hand. Yet profits at charity shops broke through the £100m mark last year as consumers struggling with the credit crunch hunted for bargains.
