8 October 2026 · 8 min read
Book Swap UK: How to Trade a Box of Books
Swap the shelf you have finished with as one box, and the thing that comes back need not be books at all.
Writing
Swapping, written up.
Pieces about swapping one real thing — a tub of LEGO, a box of books, a bike in the shed — and what each one can come back as. Written for somebody who has already decided to swap and wants to know how it goes. If you are still deciding, the swap guides are the better place to start.
7 October 2026 · 8 min read
What are old toys worth? More than a shop pays
A shop and a family with a child the right age give the same bag of toys two very different answers, and the gap between them is where a swap fits.
6 October 2026 · 8 min read
What to do with old LEGO: swap the tub
Gather the loose bricks, the part-built sets and the instructions into one lot, and expect the best pairing to come from outside the toy box entirely.
5 October 2026 · 8 min read
Bike Swap: Trade a Bike You Stopped Riding
The bike in the shed is easy to describe and wanted by someone specific, which is what makes it one of the better things to put up for a swap.
3 October 2026 · 8 min read
What Could I Get for This? A Band Beats a Price
A swap is a comparison between two objects, so the useful answer is a position on a shared scale rather than a number.
2 October 2026 · 8 min read
Clothes Swap in the UK: Where It Works Best
A clothes swap works best in a room with the clothes in your hands, so this is the honest account of where our model falls short and what people are swapping online instead.
1 October 2026 · 7 min read
Swapping farm machinery and kit in the UK
The smaller end of the yard swaps well goods-for-goods, while anything with a cab on it is still better served by a dealer or an auction.
Where to go next
Every post here is about one kind of thing. If you want the shorter practical version for your own category, the swap guides cover sixteen of them. If you simply want to know where something sits before you decide, the swap checker answers that with no account and no sign up. And if you would rather just look at what people have put up, that is the browse page.