Can a bobby pin be traded up to a house? A woman on TikTok is trying to find out

[Rusty_Blazenhoff]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/27/can-a-bobby-pin-be-traded-up-t.html

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[SteveKiwi]

Just to be clear, I will NOT trade her my packet of miracle legumes. Unless she has a telescope.

[bunkyboar]

I’ve got an idea…I’ll make a web page with a million pixels on it and sell each one of $1…on TikTok.

Or maybe I’ll make a web page with a button that goes away when people stop pushing it ever few minutes…on TikTok.

[Pensketch]

I read this and planned on saying, “Hopefully she can avoid Jim and the magical beans.”

So I said it anyway.

[Franko]

meh - it’s been done.

[Blamp]

To her credit, she immediately mentions One Red Paperclip in that first video.

[knoxblox]

I love these trade-ups and the people who make them succeed. I hope she meets her goal.

[anon75430791]

Remember that guy who traded one red paperclip up to a house in Saskatchewan? Well, now there’s an anonymous Bay Area woman

Upping the difficulty I see. From possibly a $100k house to a $1mm+ house.

[ludd]

I wondered when Pixel Marketing would revive. Now I want to see a reincarnation of “The Amazing Send-Me-A-Dollar Website”. Just haven’t figured out how to divert it to my account.

[Sigmund]

I wonder if that brings any tax implications on capital gains. Or could they claim the house essentially has the same value as the paper clip?

[Keith_McClary]

https://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-houses-for-1-dollar-2012-2#a-single-family-two-bedroom-on-forestlawn-st-6

[CarlMud]

This was my immediate thought. People who own a house but it’s not valuable or in an in-demand location and the property taxes and maintenance they’re not doing are too expensive. Be careful what you wish for.

[jerwin]

Good call. That red paperclip is probably worth a lot more now that it’s internet ephemera.