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- 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. It was all part of Skipper’s "Trade Me Project" on TikTok, which ultimately led to her trading her way into a new home.
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Jan 12, 2022 · Ellen welcomed Demi Skipper, who started with a bobby pin and 28 trades later, took full ownership of a house. She shared some of the items she traded along the way, what she plans on...
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May 3, 2022 · TikToker Demi Skipper (@trademeproject) tells Drew and Ross Mathews how she was able, through a series of trades, to trade a bobby pin for a house. She's a m...
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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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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 14, 2021 · In a TikTok video documenting the big reveal, Skipper is seen running up to her brand new house and breaking out in tears in her front yard. “Oh my god,” she says in the video. “I can’t...
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Dec 19, 2021 · When Demi Skipper set out to trade a bobby pin for a house, she became a social media sensation. Scott Detrow talks to her about her unconventional journey to become a homeowner.
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.
