When I was child I remember to exchange my bubblegum stickers to different things like brick game and others.
For that time bubblegum stickers was valuable especially for the ones who collected it. So because it has particular value at that time and probably at the region where I lived, that is why it was fair exchange.
- I would barter soccer cards in primary school (Matchattax) for marbles, spinning tops or other Matchattax cards. Looking back I would only barter the cards I had doubles of and others too would only barter what they wanted to get rid of so in most cases I was happy to get rid of something I already had in abundance for something new.
Burning man Israel siting on a spongy pink bench with a friend he gives me some acid I give him mushrooms 
super fair we both had an inflation in our current currency 
Great course super important and interesting!!!
Describe a barter transaction that you’ve been a part either as a child or adult.
List the two items in the barter transaction and, looking back, did you think it was a fair exchange and why?
I remember trading marbles as a child.
Ha,ha. Long time ago. We would all hoard the bigger glass marbles or the metal ones (which i later found out were nothing more than ball bearings!!!) and the more beautiful multi-coloured ones too. Plain red tinged marbles were of the lowest denomination and were abundant.
A perfect example of Greshams Law!!!
I traded tomatoes and cucumbers for fresh fish It was fair because i wanted fresh fish and the other party wanted the fruit. I had many tomatoes and cucumbers and no fish and he had many fish and no tomatoes and cucumbers so we both had a well rounded meal that night.
Ok this one is weird but I once exchange laundry soap for a chicken. My neighbor was raising chickens and I wanted one and I had a lot of laundry soap that she liked. At that time since I had stored a lot of the laundry soap, we can say it was in abundance in my house 
And on her side she had an “abundance” of chickens. For both of us it was a good deal and so it was done.
When we were kids we collected a lot of basketball cards. And then we used it as money while playing basketball. We played to get “experience points”, we had to challenge it. The cards were both XPs and money, as it turned out later.
The cool guy won the most and gained fame with it. We often competed with each other, it was kind of a tournament over the years.
Later, the cards were worth a lot more money than we used to buy them for a long time. So that it later became a good investment, I think I would say it is a fair trade.
My last barter was 1 ounce goldcoin and I recived 100 ounce of silver. Think that the gold/silver ratio is very manipulated and I belive in the future that that ratio will be better. With other words, I think that this gap will not be so wide looking forward and that I then can get more gold for my silver.
When I was a child, they were these round coin like game collector item called Pogs which every kid would be collecting. They had different pictures and as always you had the ultra rare shiny ones which everyone wanted to get when you open up the packet. We used to trade and barter how many Pogs we would swap for the shiny ones. At the time marbles was also very popular, so I would swap a few marbles for those sweet shiny Pogs token
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My sister hated cleaning, and I hated cooking (always burned the pots). So she would always make me my favorite egg sandwich after school and I would clean her room on weekends. It was such a pleasure having that burden of cooking for my self lifted off of me. I didn’t mind cleaning because I loved physical activity while listening to music.
When I was a child I remember trading a holographic pokemon card (Charizard) for a bunch of other cards and a common holographic. Needless to say I got ripped. Reason being that the value of my card only appreciated with time as it was a popular card.
I remember in my teens exchanges of football players pictures that we used to collect in scrapbooks. There was at the time a sort of consensus within the kids collecting these pic cards on the “value” of each of them.
My fiancee does barter transactions all the time - she trades our children’s clothes or toys for clothes or toys from other parents she knows. Regarding myself, when I was a child I used to trade things with my brother all the time, I am the youngest so I normally got had and ended up giving over much more value than what I got back - at the time I thought I was getting great value - my brothers are good at selling an idea haha.
I have also traded my time for a 6 pack from my mate. He wanted some help in his garden, I told him he’d get a couple hours work from me, but it would cost him a 6 pack at the end of it. Fair deal I think, time for beer - good deal.
The primary barter I experienced during childhood was Pokemon trading. You get an under-trained legendary pokemon for a decent high level ordinary pokemon from another trainer
In the Marine Corps, they give us MRE’s the while we’re in the field. In those (Meals Ready to Eat), comes a variety of foods, condiments, drink mixes, and desserts. Skittles were the most valuable dessert in my opinion. At some point in my 4 years, I
bartered a cinnamon bun for skittles and skittles for $100.
Trading Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Trading the cards based on the in-game abilities and rarity
Also trading cadet MRE’s. Lord knows that sante fe style rice and beans is the best meal pack, but everyone wants pop tarts and apple sauce. Its an easy trade
Describe a barter transaction that you’ve been a part either as a child or adult.
List the two items in the barter transaction and, looking back, did you think it was a fair exchange and why?
My sister and I would exchange candy as kids on Halloween. It was a fair exchange because we both got candy that we preferred from the other.
My last barder transaction was a few weeks ago. I was about to fill my new aboveground pool with water.
I gave a bottle of wine to my neighbour, so that I could use his garden hose incl. water.
The pool was filled in half of the time.
It was a fair deal because I could take a refreshing bath the same day and he could drink a good glass of wine 
I’ve been part of a barter transaction on day one of a festival. We had everything except a mallet so we set out to trade a couple of beers for use of one from our neighbours. Considering the festival was in England, which can get rather windy and our tent was not secured, I consider this a good deal.