I used to swap Pogs at primary school when I was 7 or 8. i got some steals and I got burned now and again. I swap plants these days whenever I Barter (Use Bartery?). It still and always will serve a purpose to some extent I’m sure.
The only time that i can think of where i actually traded something in this way was when i was a teenager and i kinda laid claim on my dads electric guitar and refused to give it back. 
My dad eventually was kind to buy a new guitar which he offered me so he could have his back, i accepted… but thing is, my dad really preferred to play on the new one instead, and i really felt more at home with his guitar so we ended up switching back. That old Ibanez has been with me since then. Its standing right now in a guitar stand about 1 meter away and i play it every day, so yeah. If that isn’t the only barter transaction in my life, it’s definitely the best one i made. And i think it was fair. 
Uhh, traded pogs. Not barter really more gambling but can’t think of anything else …
I was writing short essays in russian and latvian literature, as well as completing homework in music for few of my classmates in exchange of explaining difficult math and physics modules to me. 
This was a great exchange, because nobody made a career of a literature, but they’ve got the good average grade out of school. The benefit happenned to me with math,too. I can count well now.
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- I cannot think of a barter trade as a child, but when first entering business I bartered my coaching services for organic marketing as opposed to marketing that had hard costs involved. In that in met a mutual need to look after cash flow while obtaining services that would enable growth it was deemed a mutually fair trade
I traded Pokemon cards as a kid. Started with a pack that my mother bought me. That pack had about 20 lame Pokemon cards. Managed to trade up so I got hundreds of cards and a whole bunch of impressive cards that would be worth a lot of money if I just kept the cards 
Wen I was a child, I did exchange repeated collectible cards for other cards that I previously didn`t own.
I remember that I change a Michael Jordan Collectible (repeated card), for a Dennis Rodman Card that I needed to complete a set. It was a fair trade.
I’ve traded my computer services for babysitting time from my sisters and I think I get the better deal
Can’t think that far back, but more recently a friend spent time helping me with some garden works in exchange for some tennis lessons. It was a good deal for me, as I would have done the tennis anyway.
The latest barter I can think of partaking in was giving my iphone 7 to someone in exchange for him helping me dismantle a kitchen, transport it in his van and also help me with some DIY work. I felt it was a fair trade. It would be great if we could do without all systems of money. All other life forms on this planet live without money. If we were not all attached to personally possessing and owning things and all served and gave of their time freely and unconditionally for the support the welfare and evolvement of the human species as a whole, would barter or money actually be required?
Currently I am doing freelance post production for a colleague in return for her connections to art curators that can assist me when I complete my collection. I do not know if it will be fair because the outcome has not occurred and its risky on my part. I have the time to take the risk, so in my opinion it is fair at the moment.
As far as Batering goes, I remember the pokemon Card fad. having to trade 2 or 3 cards for those shiny metallic because of their rarity and abilities that could be used in the actual playing of the cards.
I remember me trading a sandwich for an Inca-kola (a yellow soda, popular in my country)…think it was a good deal because i was very thirsty but not really hungry.
As a child i traded Pokemon cards at school. I traded an English shiny Charazard card for a Japanese Shiny Blastoise card. Both cards being rare but the Japanese card was unobtainable in the UK so I was clearly getting the better deal. At the time I knew that trade was unfair as the holder wasn’t aware of the value, being from Japan, but now looking back, maybe he saw my card as a rare item and had the same thought about the deal from his perspective? Lame story
I traded a surfboard for some musical recording equipment a few years ago. Even if the monetary value wasn’t exactly even, the exchange felt fair as I wasn’t using the surfboard anymore and found much more use for the recording equipment.
I had a gold digger girlfriend. Now I regret spending money on her instead of Bitcoin when it was 3 k
I exchanged doing 9th grade homework for an hour’s “rental-usage” of motorcycles after school –
(I paid the gas) I always felt I got the best ‘value’ from the barter b/c I could usually complete the
standard homework assignment in about 15 minutes, virtually always guaranteeing an A grade – and I’d barter for multiple hours of motorcycle rental time across multiple days for extended requirements such as term papers. My intention is to leverage this same dynamic with the coding knowledge of the blockchain across whatever contexts that capture my interest and attention.
Snacks & toys! not at all fair I just wanted to play football (soccer) so I traded my sisters dolls for a ball… Grounded for life
As a child, in the beginning of the new year, everyone wanted to get rid of their Christmas trees after the holidays. It was the local government’s job to collect all of those trees. They organized a ‘collection party’ where we as young kids, could collect those trees, tow them with our bikes to the government’s deposit site, and receive a coupon that could only be exchanges at the local candy shop.
So, by working hard, we could barber those trees for candy. Okay, we have to disregard the coupon which is an intermediate like the goldbacked dollar, but you could only buy candy with these coupons and nothing else.
It was a fun day, working in the snow and afterwards enjoying those sweet rewards!!
Those good old days 
It was a fair trade for both parties, because we were doing the community a service in helping the local government, the local candy shop got some revenue and we received a nice reward!
During 90’s, in my country, barter transactions of Panini football stickers was very popular among children. Usually transactions were fair: 1 sticker that you wanted for 1 sticker that other kid wanted…but sometimes, for those rare stickers that you needed really bad, you would give multiple stickers, sister’s candy or even your precious allowance. Looking back, I believe it was worth it because with each trade you improved your bartering/trading skills 