One Red Paperclip = A House
A Canadian blogger named Kyle MacDonald decided one day that he wanted to play a real world game of “Bigger and Better”. You know, that game you may have played as a child where you start with a practically worthless object and compete against other friends to trade it for some thing bigger and better. Then turn around and trade it again for something even better, and so on. The person with the biggest/best thing at the end wins.
Well this is the ultimate version of this game. Starting with a single red paperclip, this guy wants to end up with a house, by bartering for it. At first I thought, he would never come close but wouldn’t you know it as of 2 days ago he met his goal 1 year and just 14 trades later. The journey across the U.S. and Canada for these trades is much more entertaining than it sounds. His blog was the epicenter of the trades and he keeps a great journal of this wild story. It’s one of those “I wish I would have thought of that†ideas that was just crazy enough to work!
