Check out this pretty interesting article on CNN about a guy who started out with a big red paper clip and plans on trading and bartering his way up to a house.  He’s made some incredible progress already and if I had to make a guess I’d say he ends up suceeding.  If you are too lazy to read the article,  the just is he trades the paper clip for something he thinks has more value and then takes that item and trades it for something that is of more value, etc. etc.  Kind of like value investing is some weird twisted way.