My dessert called for frosting, and I didn’t want to make it from scratch. I didn’t want to go to the store either. The solution? Good old fashioned bartering! I traded a friend her pantry frosting for a roll of paper towels. As a matter of fact, I think we will be doing more bartering as this pandemic continues.
That is why I am in full-tilt gnome production. Who wouldn’t want a gnome for perhaps, a couple of eggs? Maybe we make furtive trades using our mailboxes or porches. I could get my husband to start building milk-box style wooden containers for these transactions. (They would be fun to embellish…but I might have to make another craft store run incognito. I think they’re on to me over at JoAnn’s.)
The same friend who had the frosting, we like to call her, ”Parbara,” sent me a tactic for preserving toilet paper, in case you need to hold a roll in reserve for the bartering system. (or otherwise.) Ah – how I wish I would have learned to crochet and knit back in 4-H!
I remember those – you’re right, but even I would recoil from them staring at me while doing my ‘business’. Funny!
I know! I think they were crocheted, but maybe they were knitted? I don’t know.