What's the weirdest thing you've been offered as payment?

[MySideOfTheStreetIsClean]

Hi all,

I don't know if that question makes sense actually but what I mean is what have people offered you instead of cash for an item?

I'm selling a car for 2k and genuinely someone has messaged me saying they'll trade me the car for one of those XL bully dogs as apparently they're around the same price.

I politely declined but omg I was not expecting it but it also makes me feel sorry for the puppy, they obviously aren't bothered about where it ends up

Any similar stories??

A family member owed me money and offered to repay me with a "valuable" rocking horse which never appeared as it was being restored 😉

My nephew replaced a fence and I paid him with my only Volvo (which was about 20 years old - I think I got the better deal 😂).

Mine too 😂 I think they do that to make tourists happy.

Someone offered my dad a roll of scratchcards for some gardening work way back in the early 90s.

He took the scratchcards and won 5k in total. Not bad considering the work only came to around £600.

We did suspect the scratchcards were stolen though.

I used to work for them - the boxes of broken biscuits were lush although quite a few of them were swept up from the floor!

Not that I'd asked for payment, I was just helping a mate with divorce paperwork given I'd just gone through it, but i was 'paid' with a selection of French cheeses including a whole eppoisse, and an 18th century sword. Fun walk back from the pub.

My dad was a joiner and a sucker for a sob story. He used to come home from jobs penniless. One day he came home with a very worn communion dress instead of payment. We weren't even Catholic.

A friend who has a garage business was given packets of microwave rice in payment for a tyre.

I used to help my dad at weekends with his decorating job, someone once offered us a donkey in exchange for decorating their living room.

Her name was Mildred.

We did it, obvs - she seemed so lonely on her own on a tiny patch of grass behind their back garden. She lived very happily to the age of 35 with lots of space, spoiled absolutely rotten with my mam's other donkeys and goats.

Topsoil! Love it!

we’re looking for a load of gravel and I have an unworn Christmas party dress. I wonder if there is a website for these very odd swaps!

My dad was a painter and decorator. He quite regularly came home with an antique clock or painting instead of payment. I remember my mum saying "well I don't think I can go in kwik save and pay with that". Nothing was ever worth a fortune.

I swapped a Louis Vuitton bag for a car once, about 20 years ago.

Tree surgery in exchange for a car I wanted rid of.

Also, a brace of pheasants in exchange for helping out on a farm. (Took bloody ages to pluck).

So happy for Mildred!

My Dad was offered 10 sacks of fresh manure for our tiny back yard in exchange for some photography he had done.

Two points-
One - Fresh manual isn't much good , well rotted is much better

Two - I worked at a stables !

When I was about 10 years old I used to look after people's pets when they went on holiday, Most people brought me back a present or gave me some money. One neighbour came to thank me for caring so well for her two cats and two guinea pigs and said with a flourish that I deserved a treat, so... I could lick out the scraping from the bowl of raw cake batter that she had made for her family. I said no thank you and she looked very put out.

Same woman also invited me in when I was older to discuss babysitting her DC on a regular basis and made me a cup of tea. It wriggled in my mouth and I spat out an earwig. all she said was - 'Oh yeah, I thought I saw an earwig in one of those mugs.' Then she later sacked me from babysitting for giving her children a snack when they were hungry at night. I hadn;t realised how weird she was until I wrote this down!