<P> One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who bartered his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year . MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better . His site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions . "A lot of people have been asking how I've stirred up so much publicity around the project, and my simple answer is:' I have no idea"', he told the BBC . </P> <P> MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip for a fish - shaped pen, on July 14, 2005 . He reached his goal of trading up to a house with the fourteenth transaction, trading a movie role for a house . This is the list of all transactions MacDonald made: </P>

Guy who traded a paper clip for a house