G'day Jill, here is the deal -
I tell you a news,
You pay all my bills
Or buy me 10 litres of milk.
As I showed a great zeal,
And only demanded a few,
I am sure you will,
Agree with the deal.
* Giggle * Giggle *
Okay, here comes the news "Man trading up from paper clip to house". It is about a 26-year-old Canadian guy called Kyle MacDonald who had a red paper clip and a dream: "Could it be possible for me to use the community power of the Internet to barter this paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else - and so on and so on until I got a house?"
As you can tell from the headline, he actually started to carry out his plan in last June and close enough to make his dream come true, after a cross-continental trading trek involving a fish-shapen pen, a small ceramic doorknob, a camping stove, a generator, an "instant party package" to a snowmobile.
Okay, here comes the news "Man trading up from paper clip to house". It is about a 26-year-old Canadian guy called Kyle MacDonald who had a red paper clip and a dream: "Could it be possible for me to use the community power of the Internet to barter this paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else - and so on and so on until I got a house?"
As you can tell from the headline, he actually started to carry out his plan in last June and close enough to make his dream come true, after a cross-continental trading trek involving a fish-shapen pen, a small ceramic doorknob, a camping stove, a generator, an "instant party package" to a snowmobile.
And then, his "deed" was known by people and was invited onto Canadian television, he was asked if there was anywhere he would not go to trade the snowmobile. He spit it out, "Yahk, a hamlet in the Canadian Rockies."
After that, a snowmobiling magazine dramatically offered him an expense-paid trip to Yahk in exchange for the snowmobile. He did not go for the trip but transferred it to a manager and in return he got a van that had been planning to sell. He then gave the van to a musician that works at a recording studio, arranged a recording contract, with studio and a promise to pitch the finished product to music executives. Later than that, of course, he sold this contract to someone else ... Jody Gnant, a singer in Phoenix who owns a duplex. And that is how Kyle MacDonald has turned a paper clip into a year of shelther for free in Phoenix.
As MacDonald said, he will keep going until he gets his very own home and I guess, he will get there soon, as he actually got an offer from Hollywood studios to turn his story into a film! <-- Huge amount of money is gonna jump into his pocket -->
Well, I am not saying whether you should make an "investment" like MacDonald ... He just gave me an idea on how we can get to success - Set your goal, make it clear, work on it, move towards it bit by bit and surely you will get there at last. For example, there is an 2,500-word essay due in 5 days which seems to be a lot of work ... but if you can find 2 really good references and write 500 words a day, you will be able to finish it on time with 10 references in the bibliography. *Chuckle*
MacDonald's blog - http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/
2 comments:
You wish!
10 litres of milk, are you crazy?
I'm going to give you 10 litres of air.
Great story!
Nice Entry.
Keep on Bloggin"
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