Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who bargained his way from a solitary red paperclip to a house in a progression of 14 online exchanges throughout a year. MacDonald was propelled by the youth game Bigger, Better. His site "One Red Paperclip" got a lot of notice for following the exchanges. "Many individuals have been asking how I've worked up such a lot of exposure around the undertaking, and my basic answer is: 'I have no clue'"
MacDonald made his first exchange, a red paper cut for a fish-molded pen, on July 14, 2005. He arrived at his objective of exchanging up to a house with the fourteenth exchange, exchanging a film job for a house. This is the rundown of all exchanges MacDonald made...
July 14, 2005, he went to Vancouver and exchanged the paperclip for a fish-molded pen.
He at that point exchanged the pen the exact day for a hand-etched door handle from Seattle, Washington.
July 25, 2005, he made a trip to Amherst, Massachusetts, with a companion to exchange the door handle for a Coleman camp oven (with fuel).
September 24, 2005, he went to California, and exchanged the camp oven for a Honda generator.
November 16, 2005, he headed out to Maspeth, Queens and exchanged the generator for an "moment party": an unfilled barrel, an IOU for filling the barrel with the lager of the carrier's decision, and a neon Budweiser sign. This was his subsequent endeavor to make the exchange; his initially brought about the generator being briefly seized by the New York City Fire Department.
December 8, 2005, he exchanged the "moment party" to Quebec entertainer and radio character Michel Barrette for a Ski-Doo snowmobile.
Inside seven days of that, he exchanged the snowmobile for a two-man outing to Yahk, British Columbia, booked for February 2006.
January 7, 2006, he exchanged the second right on target the Yahk trip for a crate truck.
February 22, 2006, he exchanged the container truck for an account contract with Metalworks in Mississauga, Ontario.
April 11, 2006, he exchanged the agreement to Jody Gnant for a year's lease in Phoenix, Arizona.
April 26, 2006, he exchanged the year's lease Phoenix for one evening with Alice Cooper.
May 26, 2006, he exchanged the evening with Cooper for a KISS mechanized snow globe.
June 2, 2006, he exchanged the snow globe to Corbin Bernsen for a job in the film Donna on Demand.
July 5, 2006, he exchanged the film job for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan.
This red paper clip sculpture was installed in 2007 at Bell Park in Kipling as a monument to the series of trades made by MacDonald. At the time, it was the world's largest paper clip.
