What to offer to memebrs of Greater Niagara PETR?
Here's an Inspiration List of just a few of the many thousands of items and services that have been traded through LETS. It may give you some of ideas about the kind of things you could trade. If you can't think of what to offer, or what you want, take a look at the list and think again.

============== Arts and Crafts: ==============

Art and craft afternoons
Batik, Fabric painting
Cartoons & illustrations
Marketing of arts/crafts
Pottery commissions
Paintings, sculptures
Silk screen printing

============== Home and Domestic: ==============

Extra help when you're ill
Helping choose presents
Returning Library books
Slave for the day
Use of washing machine and/or dryer
Washing up
Electrical repairs:
fridges, stereos
Electrician, emergency call out

============== Trades & Services:==============

Central heating
Builders mate, big and brawny
Cement mixer for hire
Household repairs,
Joinery, carpentry
Plastering
Tools, ladder hire
Walls, fireplaces built

============== General handyman or woman: ==============

Furniture Kit assembly, desks, cupboard organisers, cabinates, etc
Hedge Planting
Household Moving help
Shelves Installed
Mowing & digging, general yard work
Window cleaning

============== Specialty offers or knowledge: ==============

Cookers cleaned
Voice, Dance lessons
Help with kids' parties
Plant care during holidays
Pet Care while your’e away from home.

============== un-classified below ==============

Storytelling, comedian
Pianos moved
Band seeks practise room
Curtains made up
Drapes hanging and removing for cleaning.
Garden design
Colour and style advice
Harvest help
Mending jeans
China repairs
Wanted buttons pre 1960
Waiting in for tradesmen
Fabric crafts, bags and hats
Food:
Garden gang to fix your garden
Recording studio
Best recipes, tips
Fence erected
House portraits
Vegetarian freezer
Chicken House built
Candles and jewellery
Garden vegetables
Logs chopped and delivered, firewood
Use of kiln / wheel, molds, ceramics
Candle lit dinners
Chain saw
Video Camera and / or operator hire
cooking and shopping
Plumbing
Models for life drawing
Jams, preserves, canning bottled fruit
Architectural design
Guitar, Piano, singing
Food mixer for sale
Saws & chisels sharpened
Poems for birthdays and readings
Home baked bread
Gutters cleaned
Revamp your wardrobe
Celebration and Specialty Cakes
Advice & Tuition:
Clothes swap parties
Home cooked Meals
Energy saving advice
Costume making
Allotment vegetables delivered
Video recorder advice
Skis, ski boots to rent
Caribbean Cookery
Gardening advice
Patchwork finished
Local honey, beeswax
Help you with math tutoring
Greeting card buying service
Personal greeting cards
Hand made greeting cards
Dinner Set, preserving
Talks on nature
Old picture frames wanted
Accommodation:
Learn how to cook
Tie dyeing
Garden and barbecue hire
Help filling in forms
Darkroom and studio share
Tarpaulin for stall
Fundraising advice
Photography
Camping, back garden
Help with your family tree
Papermaking
Caravan, temporary site needed
Valuations of antiques
Disco/Band hire
B&B for single non smoker
Guitar tuition
Trips to the theatre or cinema
Shed/garage to rent
Drama coaching
Theatre group seeks extra
Marquee
Help understand your computer, system help, tutoring
Audio tape copying
Settee for overnight stay
Drum making workshops
Hire & Share
Grazing for horses
Use of petrol lawnmower
Health & Care:
Gardening tools
Hairdresser in your own home
Garden plants
Mountain Bike
I’ll look after your pets while away
Massage therapy
Ladies bike in good condition
Carpet cleaner
Acupuncture
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Electric hedge trimmer
Chiropodist
Radiator 3’ wide
Long ladders
Help with Candida
Hundreds of plant pots
Wallpaper stripper
Yoga classes
Jam jars
Car battery recharger
Advice on stroke recovery
Childrens toys
Car roof rack
Painless hair removal
Pushchair
Leg waxing
Sulplus Paint pots (have been partially used)
reflexology
Christmas Trees

============== Goods for sale: ==============

Slide projector hire
Land for growing vegetables
3 piece sofa
Stereo 50W
Skis & stuff
Tents & camping gear

Office & Communication:
Computers:Gifts:
Typewriter (Electric)

Making the most of Niagara LETS

This worksheet will help you to prepare your Directory entries and get you thinking about your wants and offers - both are equally important!
Read through the Inspiration List and jot down your initial ideas - then polish the wording before completing the enclosed membership form.

Think of things you LOVE doing or are SKILLED at doing e.g. painting, organising things, cooking, writing, growing plants and write them below:






Now think of things you’d like DONE for you e.g. cleaning windows, filling out income tax forms, car repairs, shopping, cooking etc. and write them below:







Think of any ITEMS that you have, which you could SHARE with others e.g. your lawn mower, washing machine, fax, computer, videos, bike, spare room, tent etc..





Think of any ITEMS which you might wish to SELL on LETS - garden produce, crafts, unwanted clothes, books, toys, equipment, bric-a-brac, furniture etc..







Now think of any ITEMS you may wish to BUY or HIRE with LETS and note them too:







And finally, circle the six items which you feel will be of most interest to other folk or those that you require most and go on to complete the membership form. (Remember you can always modify your entries in each future Directory - trying different offers and wants at different times of the year.)

Please note that this is an adaptation from the New Moray LETS worksheet and appears here with permission.