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Paper Clip traded for a house!
« on: July 16, 2006, 06:37:00 AM »
I heard about this like a month ago on Bob and Tom and was reminded of it today, when I heard the kid finally got his house.  I can't believe it hasn't made it here yet.

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July 14, 2006 -- What is one red paper clip worth?

For Kyle MacDonald, 26, the question is simple, but the answer is more complex and more inspiring than anyone could ever imagine.

Starting with one red paper clip, MacDonald wondered whether it was possible to make enough trades to eventually get a house.

His inspiration was a childhood barter game called Bigger and Better.

"It would be cool [if] instead of getting the job to buy the house, I just played Bigger and Better till I actually traded up to the house," MacDonald said. "That's when I looked down at my desk and saw one red paper clip and said, 'I'll start with that.'"

From there, MacDonald blazed a new trail in Internet trading from his computer in Montreal, making incremental trades until this week — a year and a day since he began his adventure — when he made his 14th trade for a house in Kipling, Saskatchewan.

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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2006, 12:38:03 AM »
No one responds to your crappy post!
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2006, 05:14:35 AM »
You did.  What's that say about you, me foine bucko?
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2006, 07:55:14 AM »
Quote from: frog on July 22, 2006, 12:38:03 AM
No one responds to your crappy post!

You here to make enemies or something.  I would have responded but I just didn't read it.  But yet I will respond to anything so that isn't really saying much.
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2006, 08:15:58 AM »
if you make a fourm on paper clips, you have to expect for there to be posts about random people doing weird things with them/
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2006, 11:45:08 AM »
Quote from: silentneep on July 22, 2006, 05:14:35 AM
You did.  What's that say about you, me foine bucko?

Shit, I wasn't prepared for this eventuality. Uh.... do you like sports?
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2006, 02:21:47 PM »
I like pie.
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2006, 05:06:18 PM »
Quote from: silentneep on July 22, 2006, 02:21:47 PM
I like pie.

Oh, that's pretty neat. Can I hold your hand?
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2006, 07:26:36 PM »
Quote from: silentneep on July 22, 2006, 02:21:47 PM
I like pie.

I like cookies, and this site leaves plently of them.
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2006, 08:20:40 PM »
I actually thought that was pretty amusing, actually!  It's a really neat concept, although I doubt it'll ever happen again.  ^_^
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Re: Paper Clip traded for a house!
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2006, 09:17:12 AM »
I don't know, I  think if you found the right people this would work again. Actually I'm going to start that right........as soon as I finally manage to get up and log off... Seriously I've  been known to sit in front of my pc for days in a row.... I wonder if I could do the same thing but starting with a used pop can or an old McDonalds sack....o.0.....Anyone here want my used Pepsi can?
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