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- Demi Skipper, who runs the popular TikTok account Trade Me Project, revealed Sunday that she had accomplished her goal of trading a bobby pin in a series of increasingly large exchanges leading up to a house. Skipper, who began her quest in May 2020, finally received a fixer-upper house in Tennessee after 28 trades, according to The Guardian.
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Dec 13, 2021 · It began with a bobby pin. In May 2020, Demi Skipper offered up a lone hair accessory for trade on Craigslist. Eventually, the trades got bigger, from a small diamond necklace to a car.
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Dec 16, 2021 · Inspired by Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house, in a series of online trades in 2006, Ms Skipper swapped the hairpin for a pair of cheap earrings.
Jan 3, 2022 · I traded my way from a bobby pin to a house and gained 5 million TikTok followers in the process — here's how. Demi Skipper and her husband in front of the final trade, a two-bedroom...
Dec 23, 2021 · Demi Skipper of San Francisco now owns a house in Tennessee after starting a trading journey that began with a bobby pin. She runs the @trademeproject account on Twitter.
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She was an architecture student at the University of Virginia. She took a job designing computer maps at Apple, and she moved to San Francisco. While doing her day job, she got the idea to buy used wedding dresses and rent them out. That side hustle was so successful it became too much. She said she stopped doing it after she rented more than a tho...
The comments on her social media posts were less than encouraging. People wrote that she was stupid, and this would never work. They accused her of being a scam artist. But she kept going. There were 28 trades in total, all done on top of her 8 to 5 job. Eventually got a pair of Air Jordans, which she flipped for an iPhone 11 Pro Max. Things didn't...
That's when she tried to reach Paris Hilton. Would the television star/former it girl/mega rich socialite want a year's worth of Chipotle? In the email exchange with Hilton, Skipper pointed out that, at the time, she (Skipper) had more TikTok followers and this could boost Hilton's credibility on that platform. Hilton declined. So Skipper swapped t...
Demi Skipper learned some things about herself. "I have to stop saying I'm lucky," she said. "I have to give myself credit." With every trade, she learned something about people. "I put so much trust in random strangers," she said. "People are pretty good." Now that she has a house, in which renovations will be done in April or May, she's got anoth...
Dec 13, 2021 · After a year and a half of pouring blood, sweat and tears, Demi Skipper has successfully taken one single hairpin and traded it up all the way to a house. In May this year we spoke to her after...
Dec 13, 2021 · To reach her end goal of owning a home, Skipper said she kept trading up after swapping her humble bobby pin for a pair of earrings, which led to a set of glasses, and later a vacuum.
