Trading has been a part of human civilization for hundreds of thousands of years. It was used to swap goods before money was invented, and it still exists in some form today. But along those millions of trades, what do you think was the strangest one?

In my opinion, the strangest one was not one specific trade, but a series of 14 trades from 2005-2006, and it started with one red paperclip to a two-story house.

Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian blogger, began a website documenting his trades, and they followed in this order:

• He traded a paperclip for a fish-shaped pen
• He traded the fish-shaped pen for a hand-sculpted doorknob
• He traded the hand-sculpted doorknob for a Coleman camp stove, fuel included
• He traded the Coleman camp stove for a Honda generator
• He traded the Honda generator for an “instant party”, consisting of a keg, an IOU for filling the keg with beer, and a neon Budweiser sign.
• He traded the instant party for a Ski-Doo snowmobile
• He traded the Ski-Doo snowmobile for a two-person trip to Yahk, in British Columbia
• He traded the two-person trip for a box truck
• He traded the box truck for a recording contract
• He traded the contract to Jody Gnant for a year’s rent
• He traded the year’s rent for an afternoon with Alice Cooper
• He traded the afternoon for a Kiss-branded, motorized snow globe
• He traded the snow globe to Corbin Bernsen for a role in the 2009 film Donna on Demand
• And finally, he traded the role for a two-story farmhouse. To this day, the farmhouse is a café.

This summarizes one of the craziest stories of recent history. It can show how one thing can lead to another, and so on. Now, if’n you please, I will go step-by-step to trade a small pebble for New York (not the city, the state)!