Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a common unit of  exchange (without the use of money) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter

Bring clothes, toys, books, home baking, excess garden produce, skills anything you might be able to barter along to the Barter Tent at Féile na Samhna. The Barter Tent will be located at the end of Georges Street.

If you would like to consider different ways to exchange goods and services; Here is a list of Websites for various forms of community currencies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvtGyFcRpUs
Short video clip from TimeBank UK explaining how it works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_currency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgauer
Chiemgauer is the name of a REGIO community currency started in 2003 in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany. It is named after the Chiemgau, a famous region around the Chiemsee. Christian Gelleri, a high school teacher, started this project with his students who are in charge of designing and printing vouchers, administration, accounting, advertising and other services.

http://www.youngwales.com/wicc_eng_ENTRANCE.htm
Wales Institute for community currencies

http://www.feasta.org/documents/shortcircuit/index.html?sc3/c3.html
An excerpt ” Chapter 3 Cutting the Monetary Tie” from Richard Dowthwaites book “Strengthening local Economies for Security in an Unstable World

http://transitiontownkenmare.wordpress.com/
The Kenmare YOURO Irelands first pilot complimentary currency

How money works

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
The Crash Course seeks to provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you can better appreciate the risks that we all face. This series of videos is, the clearest and most straightforward explanation of how our economy, energy systems and environment interact — how we got to where we are today, and some reasonable expectations for the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lietaer

Bernard Lietaer (born in 1942 in Lauwe, Belgium) is an economist and author. He studies monetary systems and promotes the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or Complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYDhuLWUnE
Bernard Lietaer short interview

Alternative finance structures

http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/share_microcredit.html

SHARE makes micro-credit loans available at manageable interest rates to businesses that are often considered “high risk” by  traditional lenders-usually because of their credit ratings or the unique nature of their business ideas. Local SHARE members make interest-earning deposits in a local bank, which are used to collateralize loans for local businesses with a positive community impact

http://small-mart.org/action-lists
Small-Mart.org is a web resource for people interested in news, stories, people, innovations, and analysis concerning local business, social enterprise, self-reliant communities, and related policies. It grows out of the writings of Michael Shuman–The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition and Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.