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The Trade Me Project: How a Bobby Pin Became a House
By Demi Skipper
Hardcover
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By Demi Skipper
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Can you turn a bobby pin into a house?
This is the question Demi Skipper set out to answer in May 2020, when she posted an ordinary bobby pin to trade on Facebook Marketplace. She had two rules: no trading with anyone she knew, and no spending her own money on trades. Twenty months and 28 trades later, she completed the final trade and took possession of a house.
How did she do it? It wasn’t luck. Hard work, ingenuity, and a talent for negotiation were essential to executing the series of tr...
This is the question Demi Skipper set out to answer in May 2020, when she posted an ordinary bobby pin to trade on Facebook Marketplace. She had two rules: no trading with anyone she knew, and no spending her own money on trades. Twenty months and 28 trades later, she completed the final trade and took possession of a house.
How did she do it? It wasn’t luck. Hard work, ingenuity, and a talent for negotiation were essential to executing the series of tr...