Turning a Red Paperclip into a House
Meet Kyle MacDonald.
I would put him in the same category as Alex Tew – the creator, as you may remember, of the Million Dollar Homepage.
Kyle has been making some trades with people. He started with a red paperclip, then traded for a fish shaped pen, then traded that for a smiley faced doorknob, which he traded for a Coleman camping stove. For every trade he made, he took the item and traded it for something else. The trades continued for things like a snowmobile, a vacation to Canada, and a record recording contract.
Now he has traded up to a one-year lease for a duplex in Arizona. Now remember, this is all from making trades from that original red paperclip. Pretty cool, eh?
