Exchange skills

Through classifieds, noticeboards, online listings and word-of-mouth, you can come across people looking to buy or sell services. If you’re broke, skilled and in need of such services, this could be a good opportunity to swap know-how. Your piano lessons for someone’s German instruction, your carpentry skills for someone’s IT experience, your weightlifting teaching for someone’s…you get the idea.

Effort involved: about the same as what you get back, and at no cost.


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