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The paperclip that Kyle MacDonald used to start the series of trades by which eventually he traded for a house. One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. [1]
About 15 years ago, he had the idea, starting with one red paper clip, to trade his way up to owning a house. For 29-year-old Demi Skipper, inspiration came by way of a TED Talk and a red paper ...
Dwight Schrute attempts to walk away with the most expensive item by trading smaller items with his office mates beginning with a thumbtack (a reference to One red paperclip) and continuously trading up from table to table. One item on Jim and Pam's table that piques his interest is a packet of "miracle legumes."
In 2006, Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald successfully parlayed one red paperclip via a series of trades into a house in Kipling. [5] The town commemorates the story with the Guinness World Record certified World's Largest Paper Clip, 15 feet tall and weighing 3,043 pounds.
And if his name doesn't ring a bell, perhaps his ticket to the national spotlight will: one red paperclip. If you were paying any attention to feel-good news stories three years ago, you might ...
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I disagree that articles should be merged. Both are clearly separate entities - Kyle MacDonald is likely to remain interesting outside the context of the 'one red paperclip' project.-- I second your thought! Keep Kyle and One Red Paperclip separate. Kyle's got lots more ideas that have yet to manifest, separate from this project. I've merged ...
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