KEEP TRADING UNTIL YOU’RE EMPORER OF THE GALAXY

Who says hair-brained schemes don’t work? Definitely not Kyle MacDonald, the Montreal man who set out to trade a single red paperclip for bigger and better items until he finally scored a house. And now, one year and 14 trades later, MacDonald is the proud owner of a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan. Check out the full report at OneRedPaperclip.com, where Kyle kept a record of the trades that led to his ultimate prize. The 14 trades went something like this: red paperclip, fish-shaped pen, handmade doorknob, coleman stove, 1000W Generator, one neon Budweiser sign and a keg of beer, snowmobile, all-expense paid trip to Yahk, B.C., cube van, recording contract, one year rent paid in Pheoniz, Arizona, one afternoon with Alice Cooper, KISS snowglobe, a role in a movie, two-storey farmhouse. Success!