one red paperclip

My name is Kyle MacDonald and I traded one red paperclip for a house. I started with one red paperclip on July 12 2005 and 14 trades later, on July 12, 2006 I traded with the Town of Kipling Saskatchewan for a house located at 503 Main Street. (Click on pictures below to read about each trade!)

The Dark Side

In order to stand out in a crowd, you need to either beat your chest louder than the rest, innovate, or take off all your clothes and trade them for booze. We all knew this was bound to happen. For a bunch of reasons, mostly to keep this blog accesible to younger readers, I'm glad I took the high road with one red paperclip. But I'm also more than happy to see someone emulate one red paperclip to create something they believe in. Whether you morally agree with it or not, I'm willing to bet that part of every single one of us is intriged by the idea of turning a stack of porn into potentially vast amounts of liquor. The fact that the press has started to line up doesn't surprise me one bit. I truly believe there's nothing better than old-fashioned straighforwardness and the desire to turn something you don't want into something you do want.

one red papercip now has it's Dark Side counterpart.

FAQs here.

enjoy - kyle

5 Comments:

TMPP said...: Thanks, Kyle!

The first round at Ye Olde Paperclip is on me.

~TMPP; August 03, 2006
Vile Blasphemer said...: Boy, this certainly is one hell of an entertaining story.; August 03, 2006
Maggi said...: Hi! I've seen your story in one of our daily papers here. It was definitely a novel idea, and I congratulate you for your new house. ;); August 04, 2006
Not Adam Sandler said...: I blog extensively on the topic of the Dark Side.

If you are interested, visit
Ultrarealism

:-)

Yay paperclips that are red!; August 06, 2006
Andrew said...: I'm surprised Mom didn't comment on this post as she did about the FCUK letters in the more recent post.

Or perhaps the image scared her from entering into the "Dark Side".; August 08, 2006

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On July 12th, 2005 I posted a picture of

on this website. I traded my one red paperclip with Rawnie and Corinna for

which was exchanged with Annie for

that Shawn saw and bartered his

that was then swapped with Sgt. David J. for

that Marcin eyed and switched it for

that I traded Michel for his

that Jeff upped to

and then swapped with Bruno for

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that Mark switched for

that Corbin turned into

and was finally traded for

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