A TikTok user has documented her "surreal" journey of swapping her way to a house after starting with a hairpin worth 3p and trading 28 times in 18 months.
Demi Skipper, 30, from San Francisco, California, started the Trade Me Project on TikTok and Instagram in May last year.
Since then, she has swapped a bobby pin, marysol earrings, four margarita glasses, Bissell vacuum cleaner, a Vision snowboard, an Apple TV 4K, Bose noise-canceling headphones for an Xbox One, two games, two controllers, and a Kinect sensor bar.
She then swapped this for a Macbook Pro 2011 which she then traded for a Canon camera set, Off-White x Nike Blazers, Off-White x Nike Hypderdunks, Nike Jordan 1 Reverse Shattered Backboards then an iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Then, things got serious, she swapped the phone for a 2008 Dodge Caravan, that for a Boosted Board V3 Plus, then a 15" Macbook Pro 2017, Electric Bike Food Truck, 2006 Mini Cooper Convertible, Diamond and sapphire necklace, Peloton V3 Bike, 2006 Ford Mustang GT Deluxe, 2011 Jeep Patriot, Wildbound tiny cabin then a Honda CR-V.
She swapped this for three tractors which she then swapped for a Chipotle celebrity card then an Off-the-grid trailer with Tesla Powerwall 2 and finally, ended up with a house in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaking to NBC News, Demi, who also has a full-time job as a product lead at Cash App, said the whole thing has been “so surreal.”
She said: “People really have doubted me, and I certainly did at times during the journey, too.
“But I learned a lot about myself in the process, and I was really amazed by my ability to stick with it.”
On the day after Thanksgiving, she made her 28th and last trade, securing the house. A video she uploaded on Saturday shows the moment she saw it for the first time.
Demi says: “Oh my God. I can't believe this. A year and a half of trading a single bobby pin until I get a house, and I've done it.
“And look at it, this just shows you — it's possible!”
No mortgage was taken out and she paid no fees for the property.
