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Quest for home started with big red paper clip
"It's totally overwhelming, I'm not going to lie."
"If you say you're going to do something and you start to do it, and people enjoy it or respect it or are entertained by it, people will step up and help you."
- Kyle MacDonald, online barterer
"If you say you're going to do something and you start to do it, and people enjoy it or respect it or are entertained by it, people will step up and help you."
- Kyle MacDonald, online barterer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Kyle MacDonald had a big red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else -- and so on and so on until he had a house?
After a cross-continental trading trek involving a fish-shaped pen, a town named Yahk and the Web's astonishing ability to bestow celebrity, MacDonald is getting close.