CyFLe Aberystwyth LETS - Inspiration List

Inspiration List

What to offer on LETS?

Here's an Inspiration List from LetsLink UK of just a few of the many thousands of items and services that have been traded through LETS in the UK. It may give you some ideas about the kind of things you could trade.

Home and Domestic
Shopping * Returning Library books * Helping choose presents * Washing up * Use of washing machine * Use of carpet cleaner * Window cleaning * Cookers cleaned * House blitz cleaning * Help when moving house * Help with kids' parties * Cleaning up after parties * Extra help when you're ill * Your slave for the day * Ironing * China repairs * Shelves put up * House minding * Waiting in for tradesmen * Plant care during holidays * Pet sitting, dog walking

Food
Home baked bread * Pies, cookies * Best recipes, tips * Celebration Cakes * Vegetarian freezer * Meals * Food co-op * Garden vegetables * Allotment vegetables delivered * Goats milk and yoghurt * Candle-lit dinner * Caribbean Cookery * Local honey, beeswax * Herbs, home grown * Jams, bottled fruit * Dinner Set, preserving pans, tables etc to hire * Food mixer for sale

Clothing
Clothes repaired * Revamp your wardrobe * Curtains made up * Sweaters, commissions * Clothes swap parties * Colour and style advice * Help choosing clothes * Costume making * Mending jeans * Embroidery, appliqué * Skis, ski boots to rent * Wanted buttons pre 1960 * Clothes rail for hire * Patchwork finished * Fabric crafts, bags and hats

Arts and Crafts
Personal greeting cards * Poster design * Cartoons, illustrations * Old picture frames wanted * House portraits * Batik, Fabric painting * Tie dyeing * Candles and jewellery * Silk screen printing * Darkroom and studio share * Use of kiln/wheel * Pottery, commissions * Photography * Video Camera hire * Art and craft afternoons * Papermaking * Models for life drawing * Paintings, sculptures * Disco/Band hire * Guitar, piano, voice, dance etc lessons * Trips to the theatre, cinema, exhibitions * Poems for birthdays * Storytelling, comedian * Theatre group seeks extra * Recording studio * Band seeks practice room * Audio tape copying * Slide projector hire * Marketing of arts/crafts

Building & Household Services
Electrical repairs: fridges, stereos etc * Electrician, emergency call out * Video recorder advice * Joinery, carpentry * Plastering * Plumbing * Central heating * Energy saving advice and installation * Architectural design * Tools, ladder hire * Concrete mixer, skip, scaffolding hire * Saws, chisels sharpened * Walls, fireplaces built * Pianos moved * Gutters cleaned * Builder's mate, big, brawny and brainy * Household repairs

Gardening
Gardening advice * Garden tool hire: mower, strimmer etc * Weeding lawn * Mowing, digging * Garden gang - sorts your garden out in a day * Use of part of garden for allotment * Hedge laying * Fence erected * Tree surgery * Garden design * Chicken House built * Patios, paths laid * Garden shed wanted * Harvest help * Logs chopped and delivered * Manure * Strimmer for hire * Chain saw and driver

Accommodation
Bed and breakfast (for your friends when you haven't room) * Storage: Attic/Dry cellar * Garden and barbecue hire * Shed/garage to rent * Room for parties * Marquee * Camping, back garden * Swap houses for cheap holiday or Christmas * People to share holiday cottage * Caravan, temporary site needed * Grazing for horses

Interior Design
Painting and Decorating * Wallpapering * Wallpaper stripping * Furniture made/restored /stripped/painted * French polishing * Advice on decor * Murals * Marbling * Space saving design * Upholstery

Now let your mind roam over these other categories …
Transport * Business * Office/computing * Goods wanted, for sale or hire * Health and Beauty * Tuition * Childcare