Canadian man barters his way from a paper clip to a house

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Bartering blogger gets his house
By Brian Bergstein, The Forum
Published Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Taking a paper clip and turning it into a house sounds like a cheesy magic trick or a phony instance of resourcefulness on the 1980s TV show “MacGyver.”

Kyle MacDonald, however, has pulled it off.

One year ago, the 26-year-old blogger from Montreal set out to barter one red paper clip for something and that thing for something else, over and over again until he had a house.

Today, the quest is ending as envisioned: MacDonald is due to become the proud owner of a three-bedroom, 1,100-square-foot home provided by the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. MacDonald and his girlfriend, Dominique Dupuis, expect to move there in early September.

“This is such a cool community project. It feels right,” MacDonald said. “And now that I think about it, I can’t believe that another small town didn’t think of it. It will literally put them on the map.”

More at: http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=132750

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1. I really wish I had a red paper clip.

Just think of all you could do with one...

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2. Houses around there are dirt cheap

Southern Saskatchewan; I go here often to check out property and businesses and there are some nice places for nest to nothing:

http://www.pin.ca