I barter with some of my kids friends.....I need something done that my kids keep saying they will help me with or high up on the roof, like sealing around the chimney or something I tell them remember that time I took you in for two months when you were 18, lol, or remember that couch I had to throw out after you slept on it for six months....it usually works rather well, sometimes I give them a few bucks to show them I appreciated that they appreciated I was there for them at one time, and that I really didn't expect them to do it for nothing, sometimes they take it other times they insist they just appreciated me.
That's not bartering, that's a guilt trip!
lol, I told you I always offered up a few bucks. There's more to it then that, for a couple of them that help extended way past early adulthood for them, they always know where to come if they needed diapers for the kids, rides somewhere, something to eat and once last summer we took in one of them and his whole family for a month until they could save up enough for another place. But yeah, every now and then one stops by to visit my son and they'll start laughing when I say don't worry I don't need anything done, actually we all laugh. We just have each others backs I guess.