One red paper clip
Posted on July 12, 2006 - Filed Under Philosophy |
The ingenuity of some people never ceases to amaze me.
Have you ever heard of this guy? Amazing. This guy, Kyle MacDonald, started a quest to obtain a house using a red paper clip. His grand plan was to barter up. If he traded, it was for something more valuable. So he traded his paper clip, via craigslist.org, for a fish pen.
I won’t go through the whole story but he got his house. Along the way, he got to hang out with Alice Cooper, Corbin Bersen; got a recording contract (for an album); a year of free rent in Phoenix, AZ; appeared on multiple national news networks; and my favorite - a fully functional KISS snowglobe. Talk about an adventure!
This actually encourages me. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Of course this made me smile. Many people have complained they can’t buy a house because they don’t have enough money. Maybe I should give them a paper clip?
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