{"id":36553,"date":"2022-01-20T08:31:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=36553"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:31:49","slug":"this-tiktoker-started-with-a-1%c2%a2-bobby-pin-and-bartered-it-all-the-way-up-to-a-house-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/this-tiktoker-started-with-a-1%c2%a2-bobby-pin-and-bartered-it-all-the-way-up-to-a-house-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"This TikToker started with a 1\u00a2 bobby pin and bartered it all the way up to a house | WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Demi Skipper<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco resident started her \u201cTrade Me Project\u201d with the goal of trading her way to a new home, and \u2014 as she revealed earlier this month on her\u00a0TikTok\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram accounts \u2014 she says she\u2019s finally done it, also picking up millions of social media followers along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 28 trades and all the ups and downs, I finally did it,\u201d Skipper says in a Dec. 12 video post, which shows her beaming outside the front door of a two-bedroom detached house near Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CXWj4JHjkbX\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link<\/p>\n

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The home was exchanged for a trailer, she says, which was preceded by trades that included tractors, a Peloton bike, jewelry, MacBooks, a snowboard and a set of margarita glasses, according to Skipper.\u00a0(Though CNBC Make It could not independently verify the trades, they did match against reseller site listings.)<\/p>\n

Bored during the pandemic, Skipper was inspired by a\u00a0TED Talk given by Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian who bartered his way to a home in 2006 starting with only\u00a0one paperclip. \u201cThe moment I realized no one else had done this since, I was like, \u2018OK, I have to do this,\u2019\u201d Skipper says.<\/p>\n