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How To Buy A House With A Paperclip
January 5, 2014 | Posted by Barnaby under Self-Improvement |
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Not long ago, a Canadian named Kyle McDonald wondered about the power of bartering.
More specifically, he wondered just how far you could go by “trading up” a little bit at a time, starting with something that had practically no value at all.
So he started his experiment with a simple red paperclip. He traded that red paperclip for a fish-shaped pen. Then, he traded the fish-shaped pen for a hand-sculpted doorknob. Then he traded the doorknob for a Coleman camp stove. And so on…
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