Its Official: Golden Paperclip Traded for Canoe

At 9am today, Saturday August 30th, 2008, the first trade took place in the golden paperclip experiment. It is official, Donald Trump's Golden Paperclip goes to Doug in Columbia. In exchange, Doug trades his family's giant 16foot skinny canoe! One golden paperclip for one canoe. Its official. Doug saw my ad on Craigslist and said he must have the paperclip to give to his friend as a gift. Apparently his friend is a big Donald Trump fan and he was looking for a unique, one of a kind gift to give him. Well this is one of a kind alright! That means item #2 is now on the clock. I will trade the canoe in September so get your offers in now to jason@goldenpaperclip.com or you can text them to 816-918-7118. I am working my way up to an SUV and am well on my way thanks to Doug. Be sure to comment below to let me know what you think about the trade and what I should try to get next. I am off to canoe the rivers of Missouri!

Trade #1 Goes Down Saturday, August 30th, 9am CST

Goodbye Donald Trump's Paperclip, Hello Trade #1! What am I getting to give up my beloved golden paperclip? Trade Number One Goes down at 9am Central Standard Time on Saturday, August 30th. Check here for an update this weekend to see who the first winner is!

Almost Decision Time

We are down to the final few days of the first module of the Golden Paperclip Experiment. I have received lots of good offers that range from the weird (Chinese Stars, Throwing Knives), to the unique (picnic in the park, unicycle) to the just plain wrong (live Shih Tzu dog with crazy eyes). I will make my decision this weekend so click on the comment button below to tell me what I should choose.

Trade offers are pouring in!

Lots of trade offers over the last few days for Donald Trump's paperclip. I have the useful (fax machine/printer/copier all in one machine), the unique (unicycle) and the weird (picnic in the park with no food, just champagne and orange juice). I love picnics as much as the next guy but I think there should be chicken involved. Robert says he does not eat or serve anything with feelings. Don't plants have feelings? I learned about some sites that do bartering (www.barterzap.com). Apparently there is a whole community of barterers out there. The guy who is offering this unicycle traded a Saturday Night Fever record for it straight up. Nice! Keep the trade offers coming and post your comments to this post below.

Let the trading begin!

Okay, site is done! I am ready to start trading. Special thanks to my coworker Jeff for helping me with the html stuff but a lot of it I did by myself. I was pretty impressed with myself. The website even has a goat page! (With Sounds!) Email your trades people jason@goldenpaperclip.com. You can click on the comment button after this to tell me what you think about the site. I think I will post another picture of the paperclip goat on here just so you can see him.

The Beginning of the Golden Paperclip

Today is day one of the blog! I start my expriment tomorrow, August 15th. I am excited. I got a paperclip from Donald Trump (finally) and now I am going to trade it up until I get a five pasenger vehicle. My game plan is to do a trade on the 1st and 15th of every month. Should be fun, if I can just figure out this website stuff. This HTML is a whole new level of dorkiness. If anyone has a trade they want to make email jason@goldenpaperclip.com