I'm Trading The One-Red-Paper-Clip House

I started with one red paper clip on July 12th, 2005, which I posted on the Internet to see if anyone wanted to trade. I ended up trading the red paper clip for a pen shaped like a fish. Then I traded the pen for a doorknob, and the doorknob for a camping stove. Over the course of a year, I traded 14 times and wound up with a house in Kipling. Now, I’m looking to make a trade with someone for the house.

A few days ago, I posted my intention to trade on my blog. I'd like to keep trading and see where it takes me. We’ve lived in the house off and on for the last couple years, but I haven’t been able to spend as much time in Kipling as I’d like because my family is elsewhere. I really don’t want the house to sit empty.

The house is a two-story farmhouse on Main Street. It’s a smaller, older house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, fully furnished. We redid the wood floors and painted it, and it’s got a giant red paper clip on the front lawn. The house itself is quite important, not only to me but to the community of Kipling as well. I guess it has a bit of notoriety because it’s the house some guy traded a red paper clip for! Just around the corner there is the world’s largest red paper clip, which the town of Kipling put up last summer. It's now in the Guinness Book Of World Records.