Second Market Day Chillingham
Hello our Second market stall will be at CHILLINGHAM MARKETS
on the 8th of November
see you there
Dolph
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Karma Bought me a Car
Karma kicks into gear
Kirsty Noffke | 22nd October 2009
Tweed Shire Community Exchange administrator Dolph Cooke with his 300-karma car.
DOLPH Cooke can boast the cheapest car on the Tweed – because it did not cost him any money.
The Burringbar resident bought his latest set of wheels for 300 karma points, a bartering system used in the Tweed Shire Community Exchange.
“The exchange works exactly the same as the cash world but without cash,” Mr Cooke said.
“So you can buy, sell, teach, help, work for and exchange your skills, labour, products and creativity for an agreed sum. You can then use that sum to buy or use something else.”
Mr Cooke, who is the exchange’s administrator, said his 300-karma car was a great find.
“I got it registered the next week, it was a fantastic buy. I also bought a brand new petrol whipper snipper from the Central Coast for 35 karmas.”
And he added there were no limits to what can be exchanged.
“I have rented a rooster so my ladies could get babies. And now I don’t need an alarm clock,” he said.
The online exchange has a market stall once a month at different locations to help spread the word.
“We also have things to sell for karmas or we might take cash if you’re an ultra nice shopper,” Mr Cooke said.
“Once we get enough members we will have a market day just for exchange people where you can buy everything on full karmas.”
The Tweed Shire Community Exchange is free to join and each new member gets 1000 karmas to start using straight away.
Visit www.tweedshire.info
1st ever Market Day 27-9-09
Hello Everyone
We will have our first ever market day in Murwillumbah on Sunday the 27th of September 2009. The focus will be on recruiting for the Tweed Shire Community Exchange.
Come have a look i will take photos and post soon
Dolph
Canberra Trip turns into winfall for Tweed Shire
A last minute call to visit a living relative before the addition of morphine was all it took to make me drop 3 planned days of Community Exchange work.
We made it to Canberra in record drive time for me anyway
(No speed limits were harmed in the making of this journey)
Good news is NAN who had not been eating the entire week prior perked up upon our presence and ate a whole heap and was alive with energy which prompted the doctors to stall their dreaded MORPHINE PLAN.
So I thought what can we do while NAN slept ?
IDEA *
Look on the ces website for Canberra CES /// Bugger could not find one
Ok Look on the ces for SYDNEY , Central Coast any town we drive through on the way home. BINGO
I found this Beut new whipper snipper for only 35 Karma’s
and a yogurt maker for only 10 Karma’s
Check it out ->
Now I can add whipper snippering to the work I do or even hire the wipper out to folks who don’t have one.
THANKS TO LESLEY for these great buys and an excellent IDEA she has given me that I will Launch soon
Dolph Cooke