Story of the Red Paper ClipHow to trade a Red Paper Clip for a House
How it all began …On July 12, 2005, while living in Montreal, Kyle Macdonald
launched an unlikely sequence of online trades which would earn both him and the town of Kipling Saskatchewan Canada places in the Guinness Book of World Records.
This is Kyle Macdonald
Starting with …a single red paper clip, the young entrepreneur
began “trading up”
This is Kyle’s red paper clip
Kyle traded …the paper clip for a fish-shaped pen
This is Kyle’s fish-shaped pen
The fish shaped pen for a …unique door knob
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The door knob for a …camp stove
This is Kyle’s camp stove
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The camp stove for a …generator
This is Kyle’s generator
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Which was traded for a …keg party !
This is Kyle’s keg party
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Other trades were for …a snowmobile, and a snowmobiling
adventure to Yahk British Columbia Canada
This is Kyle’s snomobile adventure
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And it continues …A cube van, a recording contract, a year’s
condo rental in Phoenix, Arizona USA
This is Kyle’s cube van, and recording
studio and condo
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And then … for a day with Alice Cooper !
This is Kyle and Alice Cooper
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Next …The entrepreneur arranged for a double switch
with Actor-Director Corbin Bernsen, an avid collector, who agreed to accept a “KISS” snow globe in exchange for a role in an upcoming Hollywood movie
This is Kyle and Corbin with the snow globe
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An offer …The movie role was offered online and Bert Roach, who was
Kipling’s Economic Development Officer at the time, proposed to Council that an offer be made.
This is Kipling Saskatchewan
Canada
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The Final Trade …After some negotiation,
Kipling traded the house at 503 Main Street in exchange for the movie role. That final trade was made on July 12, 2006, one year to the day after Kyle Macdonald had begun his world record trade sequence with a single paper clip. The house itself is now most often referred to as “The Red Paper Clip House”.
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With terms …As a part of the terms of the trade, Kipling
also erected the World’s Largest Red Paper Clip, which was unveiled July 12, 2007.
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See Kipling’s Story … In .ppt format by Pauline Jaworski entitled
“Kipling Saskatchewan and the Red Paper Clip” and find out how a small town grew and grew because of one man, Kyle Macdonald.
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This is Kyle and his paper clip
And that is the Story of the Red Paper Clip
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