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- Demi Skipper offered up a single bobby pin for trade. A year and a half later, she made her final exchange: a solar-powered trailer for a house.
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Dec 11, 2021 · Demi Skipper began her journey in May 2020, offering a bobby pin for trade on Craigslist. This month, she was offered a house in Tennessee
- Neelam Tailor
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.
- Wilson Wong
Jan 3, 2022 · Demi Skipper, 30, is a product manager in San Francisco who started the Trade Me Project. In a year and a half, she went from a pair of earrings to a Chipotle Celebrity Card to a trailer. Here's...
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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 22, 2021 · In May 2020, Demi Skipper started with a one-cent bobby pin listed on Craigslist. Now, about two dozen trades later, Skipper has bartered her way up to an $80,000 house.
- Mike Winters
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Dec 23, 2021 · December 23, 2021, 11:17 am. A San Francisco woman's mission to trade a single hairpin for a house is officially complete. "After 28 trades and all the ups and downs, I finally did it," said 30-year-old Demi Skipper in a video posted on TikTok to mark the milestone. "I can't believe this!"
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.
