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Has anyone gotten on board with Catskills Time<\/a>? It’s a co-op of sorts, in which you offer your services, earn points, and can spend them on services that someone else is offering. These kind of time banks always insist it’s not bartering — I’ll do your taxes, you fix my plumbing — but that’s mostly because you don’t trade directly with another person. You can offer home baked goods, picture framing, errand-running, ditch-digging…whatever it is you can offer in time. Might be a terrific thing for weekenders who would like to swap some services in exchange for having someone check regularly on their home or perform other caretaking dutues!<\/p>\n

There’s an orientation potluck on Sunday, January 15th at\u00a0Stone and Thistle Farm<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>1211 Kelso Road in East Meredith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has anyone gotten on board with Catskills Time? It’s a co-op of sorts, in which you offer your services, earn points, and can spend them on services that someone else is offering. 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