Trading a Paper-Clip For a House

O.K., so it wasn't quite that simple. But Kyle MacDonald did start out by trading his red paper-clip for a pen, and then he traded the pen for a door knob, and so on up to a Hollywood movie role. His most recent achievement is a house on Main Street, Kipling, Saskatchewan (one town away from Kennedy, Saskatchewan, my husband's home town). I had no idea trading could be so productive. Would anyone like a silver paper clip? Via Boing Boing.