http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_MacDonald
(apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere on curezone...)
The website one red paperclip was created by Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian blogger who bartered his way from a single paperclip to a house in a series of trades spanning almost one whole year.
MacDonald began with one red paper clip on July 14, 2005. By July 5, 2006, a chain of bartering had ultimately led to trading a movie role for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan. On July 7, 2006 — almost exactly one year after MacDonald began his experiment — the deed to ...
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