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Recycling, Barter & Self-productionRecycling, Barter & Self-production

 

Through the Module IV will be possible to propose strategies, solutions and useful technical information and best practices to make ends meet within the family.

We will emphasize the merits and benefits of using traditional cooking methods, the consumption of local, seasonal products, and new local family gardens to produce, acquire and exchange your produce, making bread and other now obsolete by-products such as detergent or soap from used cooking oil, perfumes and essences from wild plants and herbs, etc... In essence, install the motto: think globally to act locally.

We'll share the idea of time banks: exchange of household jobs between people, informal consortium of professionals who trade their work for those of others. A type of barter system that may be organised.

Other ways to benefit the household budget proposed are: the exchange of clothes for children and adults, the donation of other items such as unused toys and books, that can be done at a localised centre. The improvement of the management of family accounts, learning how to better understand and economize on existing bills. How to reduce or balance income with expenditures, etc. Other alternatives will be explored by the group.