On July 12, 2005 I posted a picture of a red paperclip on my blog and in the barter section of craigslist and asked if anyone wanted to make a trade for something bigger or better.  A few days later I traded the paperclip for a pen shaped like a fish.  Then I traded the pen for a doorknob.  And so on, each time trading for something bigger or better.  Once all the dust settled, I'd made 14 trades and wound up with a house located at 503 Main Street in Kipling Saskatchewan.

It was an amazing year.

How did I trade up to a house in a year?  It's a long story, and inside the house in Kipling I sat down and wrote an entertaining book about the whole adventure, with plenty of behind the scenes and never-been-told-before stories!  It goes a little something like this: