Woman Receives New Home After Making Incredible Trade Starting with a Bobby Pin
The idea of trading up from something less valuable to something of great value is more common a pursuit than you might think. Vloggers have done it. An episode of “The Office” revolves around it. But one of the most…
The idea of trading up from something less valuable to something of great value is more common a pursuit than you might think. Vloggers have done it. An episode of “The Office” revolves around it.
But one of the most recent people to set themselves this challenge is Demi Skipper of San Francisco, who is a product manager for Cash App and has several side hustles. Starting in May 2020, her goal was to start with a bobby pin and trade her way up to a house.
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She called it the “Trade Me Project,” documenting each step of the way and each trade on Instagram and TikTok.
“I’m trading a bobby pin up until I get a house,” she said in her first video.
She used eBay, Facebook, Craigslist and other sites to advertise her trades and work her way up. Her first trade was for a pair of earrings.
“For this first trade, I went to several Facebook groups and posted that I was hoping to find a trade for a single bobby pin until I got a house,” she told the