How a paper clip was traded for a House online: intersting Story!

This is a small and Very very interesting story I read a few days back while I was lazying around on the web. It’s about Kyle MacDonald – A Canadian Blogger who traded a Red paper clip to a House ultimately, through a series of Online trades.

MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, 2005. He reached his goal of trading up to a house with the fourteenth transaction, trading a movie role for a house. This is the list of all transactions MacDonald made:

On July 14, 2005, he went to Vancouver and traded the paperclip for a fish-shaped pen.

He then traded the pen the same day for a hand-sculpted doorknob from Seattle, Washington, which he nicknamed “Knob-T”.

On July 25, 2005, he traveled to Amherst, Massachusetts, with a friend to trade the Knob-T for a Coleman camp stove (with fuel).

On September 24, 2005, he went to San Clemente, California, and traded the camp stove for a Honda generator.

On November 16, 2005, he made a second (and successful) attempt (after having the generator confiscated by the New York City Fire Department) in Maspeth, Queens, to trade the generator for an “instant party”: an empty keg, an IOU for filling the keg with the beer of the holder’s choice, and a neon Budweiser sign.

On December 8, 2005, he traded the “instant party” to Quebec comedian and radio personality Michel Barrette for a Ski-doo snowmobile.

Within a week of that, he traded the snowmobile for a two-person trip to Yahk, British Columbia, in February 2006.

On or about January 7, 2006, the second person on the trip to Yahk traded Kyle a cube van for the privilege.

On or about February 22, 2006, he traded the cube van for a recording contract with Metal Works in Toronto.

On or about April 11, 2006, he traded the recording contract to Jody Gnant for a year’s rent in Phoenix, Arizona.

On or about April 26, 2006, he traded the one year’s rent in Phoenix, Arizona, for one afternoon with Alice Cooper.

On or about May 26, 2006, he traded the one afternoon with Alice Cooper for a KISS motorized snow globe.

On or about June 2, 2006, he traded the KISS motorized snow globe to Corbin Bernsen for a role in the film Donna on Demand.

On or about July 5, 2006, he traded the movie role for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan.

I have listed all transactions that have ended this small idea into a great end. Find the original source of the article in Wikipedia at the link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

Related Articles You Are Probably Interested In:

1. Making money online – The ‘unconventional’ way!
2. An Intersting Advertising concept: RefreshLinks
3. Yahoo Also finding Twitter intersting !! Launches Sideline
4. Do You Want to Create a “Make Money Online” Blog? Intersting article
5. How to sell your website or Blog online
6. Tips to improve Google adsense income – My Story
7. HopDiary : Vacation & Travel resource online
8. List of the best online photo or image editing website tools

3 Responses to “How a paper clip was traded for a House online: intersting Story!”

1. nike dunk sb shoes says:

   June 10, 2010 at 10:41 am

   Hhe article's content rich variety which make us move for our mood after reading this article. surprise, here you will find what you want! Recently, I found some wedsites which commodity is colorful of fashion.
   http://www.thegy.net

   Reply
2. Honda Generator says:

   September 28, 2010 at 10:45 am

   nice story about clip

   Reply
   • admin says:

     September 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm

     yes its intersting and heard to be true !!

     cheers
     Joshu

     Reply