From one red paper clip to a skidoo!?

[gman]

http://zane.typepad.com/ccuceo/2005/...d_paper_c.html

Escape Velocity in its post, One Red Paper Clip, profiles Kyle. Kyle wants a house. But all Kyle has is a red paper clip. But Kyle's smart. So he trades his paper clip to a vegetarian who had a fun fish pen. And he kept swapping stuff until 4 transactions later he had 1000W power-generator.

Kyle still wants a house.

But now Kyle has a website with 10s of thousands of visitors every day. And he's got sponsors; And he's going on talk shows; and the NY Times is interviewing him.

All this from:

One Red Paper Clip. And a willingness to be creative.

http://www.oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

[hyperion]

Interesting, but I still don't get it. People seem to be doing it just for the publicity..but maybe he thought of that when he started with the paper clip.

[felixdd]

Interesting, but I still don't get it. People seem to be doing it just for the publicity..but maybe he thought of that when he started with the paper clip.

It's kinda like that secret item sale thing we had going on last year...where UrbanPoet started, I was 2nd...etc.

Who has the package now anyways?

[Dirty_Larry]

useless thread!

[Headhunter]

It's interesting as a guy's blog, but how did this get on the news?

[gman]

useless thread!

Yep! You got the idea. You will beat that guy by start trading a useless thread to get a house.

[NDman]

And now he's getting loads of publicity (talk shows, radio interviews, etc etc), and he's doing well! Global news even did a coverage on that last week

[Mehrtens]

They showed this guy on the news, it's old stuff.

[drucillica]

Brilliant!!

[tyleratwork]

Well, he did it. "on July 12, 2006 I will trade with the Town of Kipling Saskatchewan for a house located at 503 Main Street." http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

[CSR]

I remember when I was small, I traded my crappy hockey cards until I had a good set..... by ripping other ppl off. haha

[jayisthebest88]

damn it..Why didnt I think of this

[blainehamilton]

Excellent work!! Kipling is actually a pretty nice farming town, my mom grew up in Stoughton, which is about 20 minutes to the southwest of Kipling.

That is so cool all the popularity the town is getting out of this. Red Paperclip Day, with Corben there too to pick someone for the new role. Awesome!


http://www.townofkipling.ca/welcome.htm

[blainehamilton]

http://www.1redpaperclip.com/news/Page01.pdf


Here's the story that let the cat out of the bag!

[blainehamilton]

Looks like they are throwing a huge party at the house to celebrate for the long weekend.

Looks like a possibility Alice Cooper might show up too...

Even Dick Assman has been invited! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Assman

Might be interesting to see if they could get Letterman there too since he was the one who discovered Dick...