One Red Paperclip
Author(s): Kyle MacDonald
This might not surprise you, but this is a picture of a paperclip. It is red. This red paperclip is currently sitting on my desk next to my computer. I want to trade this paperclip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. If you promise to make the trade I will come and visit you, wherever you are, to trade. So, if you have something bigger or better than a red paperclip, email me. Hope to trade with you soon! Kyle PS: I'm going to make a continuous chain of 'up trades' for bigger or better things until I get a house. Kyle MacDonald wanted his own house. The problem was he didn't have a job and he didn't have any money. Thinking back to his childhood he remembered the game he loved to play - Bigger and Better. It was a way of trading your old stuff to get bigger and better new stuff. Legend had it, some people managed to trade an old biro for a brand new car! This got Kyle thinking. If that kind of entrepreneurial spirit could turn tiny objects into big ones, then why not try trading up to a house? And then he saw it.
Product Information
One man's attempts to trade a paperclip for a house. A global adventure in the style of Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace.
General Fields
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- : Ebury Publishing
- : 27034
- : 0.345
- : 28 June 2007
- : 217mm X 134mm X 25mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 320
- : Paperback
- : Kyle MacDonald