Canadian blogger trades up from paperclip to house

Taking a paperclip and turning it into a house sounds like a cheesy magic trick or a phoney instance of resourcefulness on the 1980s TV show MacGyver. Canadian Kyle MacDonald, however, has pulled it off.

One year ago, the 26-year-old blogger from Montreal set out to barter one red paperclip for something and that thing for something else, over and over again until he had a house.