The Trade Me Project

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