Trading a Paperclip for a House – The Weird Side of the Internet
Written by Staff on October 9, 2024
Trading a Paperclip for a House – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
Kyle McDonald is a hero. Or perhaps the most expert negotiator in the world. He could trade a chance encounter on a bus into a marriage faster than you can say pre-nup. The reason I say this is because he managed an amazing feat of trading: he traded a red paperclip for a house.
Well, it wasn’t one trade, it was fourteen trades. That’s what makes it great. He started by trading the paperclip for a pen that looked like a fish, then that for a handmade doorknob, then that for a camp stove, then a 100 watt generator, then an empty keg and a Budweiser sign, then a snowmobile (from a radio station), then an afternoon with Alice Cooper, then a KISS snowglobe, then a paid role in a Corbin Bernsen movie, then, finally, a two-story famnhouse in rural Canada.
This was all because he didn’t want a job. I would argue that he has more than enough skill to get a job in sales.
I know what you’re thinking: why I didn’t I think of this first? Me too, me too. I imagine that when you tell people that you’re trying to trade a paperclip for a house, they probably give you cooler sh*t just to be a part of it.
This is just a really feel-good story for me. Like how anything is possible. In fact, couldn’t we all do this anyways? Does Kyle McDonald have to be the only one? I have a Fender finger exerciser, it’s got springs and you push your fingers down on it to strengthen them up. Who will trade me? What will you trade it for? It’s got to be more valuable to someone else, but something don’t really need or want, that’s the trick.
And I’ll trade you a die-cast muscle car, a pretty big one. I got a few.
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