A San Francisco woman who started with just a bobby pin and spent a year and a half trading it up for increasingly bigger and more valuable items has finally reached her goal — and is now the proud owner of a house in

A San Francisco woman who started with just a bobby pin and spent a year and a half trading it up for increasingly bigger and more valuable items has finally reached her goal — and is now the proud owner of a house in . 

Demi Skipper, 30, started the Trade Me Project on <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website and <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website May 26, 2020 with the plan of making multiple trades to turn her worthless bobby pin into her own home — upgrading the bobby pin to shoes, electronics, and even cars along the way.

By last December, she’d traded up to a Wildbound Tiny Cabin — but she had her hear set on a bigger, more permanent home, and continued to trade up for a Honda CRV, three tractors, a Chipotle celebrity card, and a $40,000 trailer with a Tesla Powerwall 2.

Finally, on the day after Thanksgiving, she made her final trade, swapping the trailer for her very own house near Nashville which she and her husband will soon call home. 

Demi explained on TikTok that she was looking for something to do during the pandemic when she was struck with the idea. 

‘I’m trading a bobby pin up until I get a house,’ she said in her inaugural video.

Using platforms like Craigslist, eBay, and Facebook, Demi is offering to trade one item at a time, with the intent of trading up little by little and eventually ending up with a house — all from that single bobby pin.

Over the course of 28 trades, she went from a bobby pin to earrings, to an Xbox One, to several cars, to a tiny cabin to the penultimate trade: a $40,000 trailer.

More recently, she made it up to some seriously big-ticket items, including three red tractors, which she traded for a Chipotle celebrity card in a sponsored video that helped get her closer to her goal.

She then traded that card — which netted a year of free food, plus a catered party — for a $40,000 trailer with a Tesla Powerwall 2.

Millions have followed her story, and late last month, she got a message from man who flips houses in Tennessee.

He said he had been watching her trading up and would like to end her journey by giving her a house for the trailer.  

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