Barter a Paperclip for a Home - Trading Up with Craigslist (GALLERY)

Kyle MacDonald was a bum. He had no job and was mooching off his girlfriend for a place to live. He thought he needed to do something about his predicament, so rather than go out and get a job, he started trading objects using the Craigslist classifieds website. He had a red paperclip, which he traded up for a fish shaped pen. He traded the fishy pen for a doorknob. The doorknob for a camping stove. On and on it went until he traded into a home in Saskatchewan.

Kyle turned his story into a bubbly book destined for best-sellerdom. One Red Paperclip is published by Three Rivers Press and was released on August 21, 2007.