Vier, your post reads as a weird contradiction of itself. What do you mean, shame on me? I *am* sitting here smoking (I always am, smoking, that is). Or are you feeling under-appreciated?
Please, give my previous question serious consideration before answering my question instead of the glib tone you appear to be taking. I have lived using barter. But I'm limited in what I have to barter with, as well as what I can get by bartering. For example, I've been able to get both electrical and contracting work (but not supplies) done in exchange for both services (aquarium specialties, housecleaning, and sewing) and goods (foodstuffs, aquatic animals, aquatic plants, clothing). But I can't pay my bills, for example my mortgage or rent or phone, with, say, a chicken, much as I may want to and much as that other guy working for the phone company may actually need a chicken.
The thing with money, whatever its form (because honestly, outside of its special uses in technology, it's mostly just been very, very pretty), is that it can take on an agreed-upon value and allow people access to that which they otherwise might not. I can't send my organic specialty lettuces across to New York in exchange for a pair of shoes, for example, because it won't last. I could possibly exchange that lettuce for something else, but I would have to be certain that it's a something else that someone in New York would want.
But people *always* want money, and I bet you use you some, too.
Oh, look! Pretty stone wheels.....