Book description
Kyle MacDonald wanted his own house. The problem was he didn't have a
job and he didn't have any money. Thinking back to his childhood he
remembered the game he loved to play - Bigger and Better. It was a way
of trading your old stuff to get bigger and better new stuff. Legend
had it, some people managed to trade an old biro for a brand new car!
This got Kyle thinking. If that kind of entrepreneurial spirit could
turn tiny objects into big ones, then why not try trading up to a
house?
And then he saw it. One red paperclip, sitting on his desk, holding
the pages of his CV together, ready to go out into the world and help
him find the job that would eventually get him a house.
But that didn't sound nearly as much fun as trading. So he wrote an
internet advert hoping to trade one red paperclip and suddenly his
inbox filled with responses: the trading had begun.
Did he get the house? Well, you're about to find out! One thing's
for sure, he did a lot of trades and met a lot of very interesting
people. One small paperclip was the beginning of a great big adventure.
My name is Kyle MacDonald. I'm from Belcarra, British Columbia,
Canada. I like to do things. Doing things is the best. I've planted more
than one hundred thousand trees, delivered more than one thousand
pizzas, but eaten only one scorpion. I've also traded one red paperclip
for a house only once.
