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A blogger from San Francisco exchanged a hairpin for a car for free: how she did it

'04.08.2021'

Source: Medialeaks

The American woman bought a minivan without spending a cent of her savings. And this is exactly the case when you can say: "Sleight of hand, and no fraud," writes Medialeaks.

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Although in this case, it was not without ingenuity and the ability to bargain, especially when it was a challenge and the goal of exchanging a hairpin for a house.

Quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic has forced many people to look for new hobbies and try new activities. Someone, thanks to this, was able to bring himself into the form of Ryan Gosling, and someone - to visit a hundred locations without leaving their own yard.

A resident of San Francisco, 29-year-old Demi Skipper, decided to go further - to challenge herself and get rich. The essence of the challenge is simple: you need to exchange a hairpin for a house and it is possible to turn such an exchange. The main thing is not to forget that between the accessory and the home lies a large number of transactions and a test of your own ingenuity.

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The inspiration for Demi's challenge was the story of Canadian Kyle MacDonald, who in 2005 was able to exchange an ordinary red paper clip for a house through various transactions, of which there were 14 in total.

“During the quarantine, I think many of us went a little crazy trying to figure out what we were going to do with our life,” the blogger shares her thoughts. "Watching [MacDonald], I was really inspired ... I felt it was not an easy task to go from something so small to a whole house."

Demi began to take her first steps at the end of May 2020, and she shared all the results with people in the TikTok application in her TradeMeProject account, where more than 3,5 million users subscribed to her.

After the first video, published on May 19, she managed to make three exchanges in four days.

“I started with a hairpin and then traded it for earrings from a Facebook girl. Then these earrings - for four glasses for "Margarita". They're pretty pretty, ”Demi boasted in the video.

Over the next two months, Skipper consistently posted videos of her trades and showed the results. During this time, she managed to become (albeit briefly) the owner of an Apple TV, vacuum cleaner, Xbox, Apple laptop and much that she constantly exchanged for something larger and more expensive.

In one of the videos, a woman explained the rules of the challenge: she cannot use money in the process of transactions and cannot turn to friends and relatives for help, or exchange things with them. What she can do for sure is to find people, mainly through buying and selling services, and offer everyone interested an exchange.

To the surprise of the American woman, people made contact and barter quite easily.

Recently, Demi, as she admits, while away days writing messages to everyone who could potentially help her get closer to her goal. This is the part that brings negative notes to the entire challenge (besides the stress of constant negotiations).

But the blogger knows how to turn such disadvantages into something positive.

“I take screenshots of messages in which people say, 'You are crazy, why are you asking me this?' I joke that I'm going to frame these letters when I have a house, so that the whole wall in it is in solid phrases: “This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard,” she explained.

One of the last, without exaggeration, Skipper's deals happened on July 17, when Demi managed to exchange an iPhone 11 Pro for a Dodge Ram minivan, which was delivered to her from Minnesota, that is, it was transported almost across the country.

She did not have to rejoice for long, since she soon discovered that the car had a bunch of breakdowns, and at that moment it seemed to her that the challenge might come to a standstill. Fortunately, this did not happen, because her mechanic friend came to the aid of Demi, who was able to fix several malfunctions.

After that, the blogger managed to exchange the car for a new electric skateboard worth 2 thousand dollars, which she also plans to change - for something that will bring her closer to her dream home.

With each new deal and video, people's interest, judging by their comments, only grows, which motivates Demi to move on.

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