Red Guitar Pick! Inspiration

Labour Day Weekend 2008


In Honour of Kyle MacDonald's accomplishment & Kipling Sakatchewan's Paperclip Festival!



I have One Red Guitar Pick! - Want to trade?

Above is a photo of the pick that I used to write "If One Red Paperclip Could (One Red Guitar Pick Can!)", click the title to hear the song in raw form now.

Bigger & Better Trade Up Game: "Start with one small object and trade it for a bigger or better object. Repeat. Usually a kids game. More knocking on doors, less internet." Kyle MacDonald. Oh and it doesn't have to be an object as you will see by some examples from the 'Guinness World Record TM' famous OneRedPaperclip.com. I think we could beat it, we could. Ultimately this would be to combine the two trades of One Red Guitar Pick! and Model To Mansion. Adopting an orphan or few - home to their new digs, 'Mabel's Mansion'! AND TAKE NOTE: I'VE DECIDED TO INCLUDE OUR FIRST AND ORIGINAL GOAL OF TRADING UP TO A FAMILY RV WITH BUNK BEDS FOR THE KIDS! It will be easier for us to travel around to trade this way! What do you have around to trade to help make this dream to benefit many come true? tradeb2rv@yahoo.ca

Here are the revised lyrics to the song I wrote and actually offered for the house Kyle recently put up for trade:

"If One Red Paperclip Could (One Red Guitar Pick Can!)"

If One Red Paper clip could help a dream come true
Then One Red Guitar Pick Can make it too
If One Red Guitar Pick could make an orphan smile
Then we’ll have done better than a house in Kipling, hey Kyle?

If you can give more than you can get
Before the unforgiving day is done
Yours is the key to more than this town’s heart
“And - which is more - you’ll be a man - my son!”

Kipling, Kipling Saskatchewan
Where "If" Becomes Reality Kipling,
Kipling, Kipling Saskatchewan
Your greatest strength is people – it’s family!

If One Red Paper Clip Could help a dream come true
All things are possible, now we can do it too
If One Red Guitar Pick Can connect new friends
We’ll keep adding versus' to our song that never ends


Copyright 2008 John Stuart Carlisle Hetherington (SOCAN)

And then I read Kyle's book and realized all that he went through to make his dream trade up happen and had to apologize for only being able to offer a song.

As you may already know the original trade up inspired in part by One Red Paperclip began July 16th. Check out Model To Mansion and make your bigger and better offer!

Model to Mansion turned out to be a twin trade which has become the brand new, as of August 23rd, One Red Guitar Pick! Who will be the one to trade for this collectors item? Again, it's the pick that I used to write "If One Red Paperclip Could (One Red Guitar Pick Can!)" hear the song in raw form now.


You can help get the One Red Guitar Pick! trade rolling by making your unique offer via email: tradeb2rv@yahoo.ca

Need any ideas of what to trade? Feel free to ask. Feel free to offer something interesting that comes to mind.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

John