Here are three things you have to admire: initiative, creativity and chutzpa. I may be the only one who hasn’t
heard of Kyle MacDonald, who, using the Internet, is somewhere in the process of trading an oversized red paper clip for a house.
MacDonald apparently advertised the paper clip at an online barter site, and exchanged it for a fish-shaped pen, which he traded for a ceramic doorknob, which he traded for a camping stove, on and on, always bigger and better, beer parties, a snowmobile, a van, and finally into a year’s rent on a place in Phoenix, not too many trades away from a home.
“If you say you’re going to do something and you start to do it,” MacDonald says, “and people enjoy it or respect it or are entertained by it, people will step up and help you.”
