Which are the barred chords you use? Sometimes there are ways and means without barring (the obvious one is playing an F using the thumb to fret the 6th string, but there are others). I almost never use barred chords, mainly because I think they sound 'wrong' in folk music - about the only one I do use is Bm but it's fairly rare.
Apologies if I'm teaching granny to suck eggs! :-)
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