{"id":518,"date":"2006-04-14T13:57:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T21:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/trading-up\/"},"modified":"2006-04-14T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T22:00:39","slug":"trading-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/trading-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some dude in Canada has been using a <a href=\"http:\/\/oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">paper clip<\/a> to try to trade up to a house (eventually). He&#8217;s been doing a pretty good job at getting that goal&#8230; If you are into &#8220;MySpace&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/oneredpaperclip\" target=\"_blank\">this is him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Blogger+asks%2C+Wanna+trade+a+paper+clip+for+a+house\/2100-1025_3-6061438.html?tag=nefd.lede\" target=\"_blank\">C | Net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMacDonald, 26, currently lives in Montreal and has spent the last year doing odd jobs and traveling. But the project that began as a throwback to &#8220;bigger and better,&#8221; a game he and his friends played as children, has now become his full-time occupation. And it&#8217;s allowed him to spawn a Net cult following that&#8217;s hoping he&#8217;ll succeed. Popular blogs such as boingboing have been tracking his progress for months.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald&#8217;s trades have gone as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Paper clip for a fish-shaped pen<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Fish-shaped pen for a clay doorknob with a funny face on it<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Clay doorknob for a camping stove<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Stove for a generator<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Generator for an &#8220;instant party&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Instant party for a snowmobile<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Snowmobile for an all-expenses-paid trip to Yahk, British Columbia<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Yahk trip for a panel van<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Van for a recording contract<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Recording contract for the year of free rent in Phoenix\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty crazy and GOOD idea! <\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\" target=\"_blank\">News.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some dude in Canada has been using a paper clip to try to trade up to a house (eventually). He&#8217;s been doing a pretty good job at getting that goal&#8230; If you are into &#8220;MySpace&#8221;, this is him. An excerpt from C | Net: MacDonald, 26, currently lives in Montreal and has spent the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/trading-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trading Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-8m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}