Highlighting the transformational potential of alternative currencies, particularly TimeBanking, and the importance of community-based solutions in an increasingly digital dytopian world.
Love this idea of Time Banking whose time has come when it will be needed the most. Thank you for sharing what you have already proven to be a successful way of exchanging good deeds of kindness as currency. Oh how the alien to life powers that shouldn't be will hate this idea! te hee!
i don't understand why the global tourism industries - cruise lines, local tours/tourism, hotel/resort chains, island nations such as Fiji or Tahiti, internaional airlines, etc- are not revolting against the tyranny of the 15 miniute cities. Their industries and economies will be over. Even churches with missionaries in the field will be over.
Good points, Sherri. While I haven't looked into the "why," I would say it's safe to assume that BlackRock. Blackstone, Vanguard, etc own those hotels, international airlines, and cruise lines. They literally have all of their tentacles in every aspect of our lives.
And some churches have been compromised since the federal government corralled them to perform dlivery of some HHS services through church charitable outreach programs, if I am remembering correctly. It is hard to disagree if your charitable programs will be defunded and you are faced with scaling back? I think this partnership -- sort of like a public/private partnership in a way -- was well underway during Bush Two, but it may have gotten started under Clinton? I do recall debate about the relationship being a kind of violation of separation of church and state.
Your digital currency will probably allow you to book travel with approved agencies hotels Etc. that will mark your digital ID to allow a pass to certain places, to travel on airlines, Etc. just not to go to the next town to see your mom 😜
I have created a kindness currency using gift vouchers. These are slips of paper that are given to me when some one attends one of my groups and can't afford or chooses not to give money in exchange. They symbolize that my time and energy has value and that the gift will come back to me in another form in the future. I then pay attention to when a kindness is done to me and at that time I give t hem one of the gift vouchers to thank that person for their gift of time and energy. So far I've "paid" for a couple of sessions of therapy with the vouchers as well as given them to friends who provided extra support, people who've done groups or teachings and not charged me. I was recently gifted a plane ticket and week's stay at a friends house. I will be sending her a thank you with several of the gift vouchers. This concept is hard to explain because it involves faith in the unseen--call it the goodness of people, the universe, or God.
I have been working with a community of people here to learn what they are interested in, what skills people have, what interests they are passionate about or trained in, and so on. It is like a triage in case of emergency crash of our financial system and people not having the drugs they think they need and may need to withdraw from. Do you have a first aid kit and preppers bag for your pet? Asking and considering long term consequences of a financial crash, an Alien invasion, a fire, a flood whatever. We have so far people who were homesteaders, nurses, construction, first aid supplies and trauma equipment, and people who can help with those things, fix small or large machinery, treat animals for certain things and even have knowledge and tools for butchering animals and feeding them.
This is all so real and kinda like we are living in a story but it is so real and we do need to be looking at the kind of systems that would support a tribe, a community, and the people willing to do that using all they have to offer. Thanks Reinette, Sharon
This is brilliant! It sounds like a perfect match, as I've signed up to feed the hungry and visit our elderly with no exchange.
What this offers is so needed here in our community, as we will not join the demonic system. Things are changing so rapidly. I value time over money any day. We've been busy preparing for over two years now. We could always do more. I see and feel the need to help others, I'm so done with the hamster wheels way of life, it doesn't work for me anymore, I need things to do that feed my soul. Connection, giving, learning to receive gracefully.
Again thank you for your the knowledge you share, you've given so much of yourself, you are making a difference, you inspire me.
Time Banking may be an idea whose time has come. Imagine its’ value in a world of hyperinflation, which we may see in the not distant future. But even if our money just dies by a thousand cuts, eventually it becomes worthless. So a barter system of time would seem to make a lot of sense in world full of so much uncertainty.
Yes, and so easy to do, particularly if it's done with a notebook and pen.... I' speaking as a TimeBank administrator. Online TimeBanks cost money (website, fliers, etc), so my preference is the notebooks and pens.
De-centralized. Organically local. Open Source. Bank on yourself.
PURPOSE: Dollar-sized ArtWorks used as advertising and gifted into the local economy. To be used by businesses and citizenry … to trade.
CONSUMER Instructions
1. Use ArtWork as you would cash for dinner, coffee, soda, tips, a massage, health care, child care, & more. Ask the community business if they take the ArtWork.
2. You may receive ArtWork in your change when buying a product locally, as a gift for a birthday, as a tip for a job well done, & more.
3. Closer to the expiration date (find date on the ArtWork), turn it back to the owner of the ArtWork and they will give you cash or more-than-equivalent services or products.
4. The more ArtWork is passed for exchange in the community before it is turned in, the more sustainable the community economy!
Get real…. Spend ArtWork…. Go local.
___________________
OWNER::BUSINESS instructions
Why use ArtWork as local exchange in Advertising:
--Get people talking about what you are doing.
--Use your advertising budget locally.
--Subtract the cost of your ArtWork as advertising.
--Watch people smile & laugh when “playing” with your “funny money”.
How to get started:
--Pay a small amount to a local artist for the ArtWork. Or make your own.
--Set aside an amount of cash to pay the “reward” for the return of the ArtWork. (You also may barter for the ArtWork with services or product.)
--Write or pay a writer to add:
1. Your business & slogan & offerings.
2. Your area of “good within ___miles of your place of business”.
3. Expiration date. Usually 3-6 months.
--Give your ArtWorks away.
1. You can only spend ArtWork other than your own.
2. Offer as a thank you to: Regulars, High pay customers, Bonuses &
Perks, Friends & Family, Lovers.
When the ArtWork is presented back to you
--Give cash or
--Give services or
--Give a product.
Keep gifting it out until closer to the expiration date.
_____________________
ARTIST instructions
1. You may
--Make your own ArtWork to advertise you and your business. OR
--Be commissioned to make ArtWork for someone else to advertise.
--Do one or the other because the Kindly-Tizing ArtWork is Open Source, meaning the ArtWork is not copyrighted. K-TAW believes in a gift society and a healthy local economy.
2. If you are commissioned to produce an ArtWork for someone else:
--You may sell your labor and supplies. Once a business, person, or a not-for-profit owns the ArtWork then the ArtWork totally belongs to them. They must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date.
3. If you create the ArtWork for yourself to advertise yourself:
--You are the owner. When you own the ArtWork, you are the one who must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date. The Owner must give ArtWork away as a gift to the community economy.
--You may take the cost of ArtWork off your income for advertising.
4. The Owner of the ArtWork must give/gift it away during the time period.
When I ask people "what is the most precious asset in the world", they always reply Gold! Money! Oil! .... wrong. The most valuable asset is TIME. It's the only thing that once it's gone you can never get back. Time is the only thing you can't purchase more of.
Money is energy. Its called curren(t)cy for a reason. What is crucial is what system do we want to use to run our curren(t)cy through? We have an oppprtunity now to change the very basis of "money". Its more personal than most of us realize. Right now we use an ancient Babylonian system used to defraud & enslave, not for the upliftment & assistance of mankind. What system do we want to switch to?
Reinette, I love your boundless energy! Great idea and a pure way to engender kindness and exchange. I sent it out to our local group Citizens for Freedom and the Common Good in Mendocino for implementation.
Men need to be men again. Fight back against the evil
Well, yes, there is THAT!
Beautiful concept! A pioneer in solutions and positive thinking!
Sarah
Placer County
Love this idea of Time Banking whose time has come when it will be needed the most. Thank you for sharing what you have already proven to be a successful way of exchanging good deeds of kindness as currency. Oh how the alien to life powers that shouldn't be will hate this idea! te hee!
LOL That is funny!
i don't understand why the global tourism industries - cruise lines, local tours/tourism, hotel/resort chains, island nations such as Fiji or Tahiti, internaional airlines, etc- are not revolting against the tyranny of the 15 miniute cities. Their industries and economies will be over. Even churches with missionaries in the field will be over.
Good points, Sherri. While I haven't looked into the "why," I would say it's safe to assume that BlackRock. Blackstone, Vanguard, etc own those hotels, international airlines, and cruise lines. They literally have all of their tentacles in every aspect of our lives.
And some churches have been compromised since the federal government corralled them to perform dlivery of some HHS services through church charitable outreach programs, if I am remembering correctly. It is hard to disagree if your charitable programs will be defunded and you are faced with scaling back? I think this partnership -- sort of like a public/private partnership in a way -- was well underway during Bush Two, but it may have gotten started under Clinton? I do recall debate about the relationship being a kind of violation of separation of church and state.
well stated!
Didn't the US gov bail out the travel industry under the auspices of the lockdowns? What was really discussed/promised behind closed doors?
Your digital currency will probably allow you to book travel with approved agencies hotels Etc. that will mark your digital ID to allow a pass to certain places, to travel on airlines, Etc. just not to go to the next town to see your mom 😜
I have created a kindness currency using gift vouchers. These are slips of paper that are given to me when some one attends one of my groups and can't afford or chooses not to give money in exchange. They symbolize that my time and energy has value and that the gift will come back to me in another form in the future. I then pay attention to when a kindness is done to me and at that time I give t hem one of the gift vouchers to thank that person for their gift of time and energy. So far I've "paid" for a couple of sessions of therapy with the vouchers as well as given them to friends who provided extra support, people who've done groups or teachings and not charged me. I was recently gifted a plane ticket and week's stay at a friends house. I will be sending her a thank you with several of the gift vouchers. This concept is hard to explain because it involves faith in the unseen--call it the goodness of people, the universe, or God.
This is beautiful to hear. THIS is the kind of thinking we need! Thank you for sharing.
This is the first I am hearing of a 'Time Bank'. What a GREAT idea!! It takes 'bartering' to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL (and BEYOND)!!
It's a paradigm shift!
Q: What is the one ireplacable finite commodity we all have?
A: Time
https://rumble.com/v1qpatg-pink-floyd-time-live-in-london-england-1974-soundboard.html
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
it would be nice if you would post a link so we could all sing along, just in case some people don't already have that song in their head...
Done.
Thank you
I have been working with a community of people here to learn what they are interested in, what skills people have, what interests they are passionate about or trained in, and so on. It is like a triage in case of emergency crash of our financial system and people not having the drugs they think they need and may need to withdraw from. Do you have a first aid kit and preppers bag for your pet? Asking and considering long term consequences of a financial crash, an Alien invasion, a fire, a flood whatever. We have so far people who were homesteaders, nurses, construction, first aid supplies and trauma equipment, and people who can help with those things, fix small or large machinery, treat animals for certain things and even have knowledge and tools for butchering animals and feeding them.
This is all so real and kinda like we are living in a story but it is so real and we do need to be looking at the kind of systems that would support a tribe, a community, and the people willing to do that using all they have to offer. Thanks Reinette, Sharon
We made a video called “Reciprocity” a couple years back https://youtu.be/kzgvFQqWJps?si=E-m8MlmmhfLzDRYO
And I believe we either build an economy based upon reciprocity... or not at all. You are spot on.
This is brilliant! It sounds like a perfect match, as I've signed up to feed the hungry and visit our elderly with no exchange.
What this offers is so needed here in our community, as we will not join the demonic system. Things are changing so rapidly. I value time over money any day. We've been busy preparing for over two years now. We could always do more. I see and feel the need to help others, I'm so done with the hamster wheels way of life, it doesn't work for me anymore, I need things to do that feed my soul. Connection, giving, learning to receive gracefully.
Again thank you for your the knowledge you share, you've given so much of yourself, you are making a difference, you inspire me.
God bless your day~
Love you,
Linda
Time Banking may be an idea whose time has come. Imagine its’ value in a world of hyperinflation, which we may see in the not distant future. But even if our money just dies by a thousand cuts, eventually it becomes worthless. So a barter system of time would seem to make a lot of sense in world full of so much uncertainty.
Yes, and so easy to do, particularly if it's done with a notebook and pen.... I' speaking as a TimeBank administrator. Online TimeBanks cost money (website, fliers, etc), so my preference is the notebooks and pens.
STEAL THIS IDEA!…PLEASE.
ART WORKS for COMMUNITY CURRENCY
K-TAW = Kindly-Tizing ArtWork :: a kind of funny money
ArtWork backed by community spirit of exchange
MISSION: We are artists banded together in partnership with businesses and community to exchange Art-Works in support of the local economy.
METHOD: Beyond permaculture currency. Barter. Banter. Build.
De-centralized. Organically local. Open Source. Bank on yourself.
PURPOSE: Dollar-sized ArtWorks used as advertising and gifted into the local economy. To be used by businesses and citizenry … to trade.
CONSUMER Instructions
1. Use ArtWork as you would cash for dinner, coffee, soda, tips, a massage, health care, child care, & more. Ask the community business if they take the ArtWork.
2. You may receive ArtWork in your change when buying a product locally, as a gift for a birthday, as a tip for a job well done, & more.
3. Closer to the expiration date (find date on the ArtWork), turn it back to the owner of the ArtWork and they will give you cash or more-than-equivalent services or products.
4. The more ArtWork is passed for exchange in the community before it is turned in, the more sustainable the community economy!
Get real…. Spend ArtWork…. Go local.
___________________
OWNER::BUSINESS instructions
Why use ArtWork as local exchange in Advertising:
--Get people talking about what you are doing.
--Use your advertising budget locally.
--Subtract the cost of your ArtWork as advertising.
--Watch people smile & laugh when “playing” with your “funny money”.
How to get started:
--Pay a small amount to a local artist for the ArtWork. Or make your own.
--Set aside an amount of cash to pay the “reward” for the return of the ArtWork. (You also may barter for the ArtWork with services or product.)
--Write or pay a writer to add:
1. Your business & slogan & offerings.
2. Your area of “good within ___miles of your place of business”.
3. Expiration date. Usually 3-6 months.
--Give your ArtWorks away.
1. You can only spend ArtWork other than your own.
2. Offer as a thank you to: Regulars, High pay customers, Bonuses &
Perks, Friends & Family, Lovers.
When the ArtWork is presented back to you
--Give cash or
--Give services or
--Give a product.
Keep gifting it out until closer to the expiration date.
_____________________
ARTIST instructions
1. You may
--Make your own ArtWork to advertise you and your business. OR
--Be commissioned to make ArtWork for someone else to advertise.
--Do one or the other because the Kindly-Tizing ArtWork is Open Source, meaning the ArtWork is not copyrighted. K-TAW believes in a gift society and a healthy local economy.
2. If you are commissioned to produce an ArtWork for someone else:
--You may sell your labor and supplies. Once a business, person, or a not-for-profit owns the ArtWork then the ArtWork totally belongs to them. They must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date.
3. If you create the ArtWork for yourself to advertise yourself:
--You are the owner. When you own the ArtWork, you are the one who must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date. The Owner must give ArtWork away as a gift to the community economy.
--You may take the cost of ArtWork off your income for advertising.
4. The Owner of the ArtWork must give/gift it away during the time period.
--Because if you sell the ArtWork, you
1. must pay taxes on the sale and
2. cannot deduct ArtWork as advertising.
5. ALL THE POINTS FOR THE BUSINESS OWNER APPLIES.
When I ask people "what is the most precious asset in the world", they always reply Gold! Money! Oil! .... wrong. The most valuable asset is TIME. It's the only thing that once it's gone you can never get back. Time is the only thing you can't purchase more of.
The barter system is 100% the way to go.
Money is energy. Its called curren(t)cy for a reason. What is crucial is what system do we want to use to run our curren(t)cy through? We have an oppprtunity now to change the very basis of "money". Its more personal than most of us realize. Right now we use an ancient Babylonian system used to defraud & enslave, not for the upliftment & assistance of mankind. What system do we want to switch to?
Reinette, I love your boundless energy! Great idea and a pure way to engender kindness and exchange. I sent it out to our local group Citizens for Freedom and the Common Good in Mendocino for implementation.
Great thought provoking article.
I'm a 67 year young guy in Scarborough Ontario CHINADA whose family came here from 2 WWs last century.
We are Dutch.
My Grandparents on both sides all went through the two horrible world wars as children in the first one and as parents in the second one.
How did they make it?
Lots of bartering and tough self sufficiency.
I've learned much from those stories but still honestly I'm not nearly as tough and able as they were.
Growing up in the 50s and 60s and 70s as a youngster I saw how my Gransparents ,uncles and aunts and Dad and Mom did so many things themselves.
Big gardens in the family where we had surplus vegetables and fruits.
Everyone fixed their own cars and homes and helped others do the same.
My Dad bought our home in Oshawa Ontario in the early 60s with Gold he brought from Holland.
I think many including my kids and nieces and nephews are going to be in shock when they can't "tap" to get their hamburgers delivered by drones.
😆.
We've been trying to teach them for years and even now as you know waking folks up is still a bitch.
We'll see when the sports stadiums are closed and shelves are emptying I suppose.