Time is a valuable thing and, like money, can be traded among neighbors. Unlike money, there is no price placed on different kinds of service: An hour is an hour, regardless of the help given.

In other words, time banking is a bartering system for services, where people exchange services for time-based credits, rather than money. For example, you may provide an hour of your time helping someone cook in exchange for 1-hour of yoga lessons, or baby sitting, or something from the same or another person

We utilize hOurWorld to keep track of time.