nows thats called trading up

bbc
But Canadian Kyle MacDonald has achieved exactly that and will see his new home for the first time on Wednesday.

It took Kyle exactly a year of 14 internet trades to move from the paper clip to a house on Main Street in the tiny town of Kipling in Saskatchewan province - a place he has never been to before.

Now the 26-year-old is planning to write a book about the venture which saw him trade up through a novelty doorknob, a camping stove, a snowmobile, a recording contract, and an afternoon with rock star Alice Cooper.

"I knew it was possible," he said on the BBC's

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One red paper clip
Novelty pen
Ceramic doorknob
Camping stove
1,000-watt generator
Beer keg with neon sign
Snowmobile
Trip to Yakh
A large van
One recording contract
One year rent-free in Phoenix
Afternoon with Alice Cooper
Snow globe
Hollywood movie role
House in Kipling

i would have taken the movie role and bought a better house and something else to trade

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I guess the old saying " a sucker is born every minute" is correct

That's so cool!

I'm been to Kipling a few times. I used to take my aunt to the doctors office there because Glenavon (population 300) doesn't have one. Kipling, at a bustling 1,100 residents, is far more cosmopolitan.

that is awesome yea, I just saw it in the newspaper yesterday, man this is a great idea, but you best be a good pitchman..... ahhahahah