According to British media reports, Demi Skipper, a 30-year-old woman in San Francisco, usa, successfully exchanged a hairpin for a house in 18 months.
Skipper reportedly launched the "Swap with Me" project on May 26, 2020 on TikTok and Instagram, with plans to turn a hairpin into a more valuable item through multiple transactions.
First, Skipper exchanged his hairpin for a pair of earrings worth $10. Then, the pair of earrings was exchanged for a set of wine glasses worth $24 (about 153 yuan). Then, this set of wine glasses was exchanged for a vacuum cleaner worth $60 (about 382 yuan).
The story doesn't end there, skipper is still continuing her "Swap with Me" project. Skipperskipper exchanged a vacuum cleaner for a $95 (605 yuan) ski worth a carpet cleaner, which he exchanged for an Apple set-top box worth $180. At the time, Skipper said in a video on TikTok: "This deal is one of my most valuable deals to date." ”
Thus, after 28 transactions, Skipper acquired a house in Nashville, Tennessee. And Skipper also gained 5 million followers on TikTok because he constantly recorded this "barter" journey, becoming a million Internet celebrities. Not only that, but Skipper also has hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram.
Skipper then found someone who "really wanted an Xbox" and was willing to exchange it for a $400 MacBook Pro 2011. Skipper didn't stop there, but exchanged the MacBook Pro 2011 for a $550 Canon camera...
In a recent video uploaded, Skipper showed his final result to netizens and said, "Oh my God! I couldn't believe it took a year and a half to be able to swap a hairpin for a house. You see, I did it! This also shows that this practice is feasible! ”
Currently, Skipper and her husband are planning to move from California to Tennessee and plan to start over, exchanging the house for something more valuable.
According to reports, the plot of the Japanese fairy tale "Straw Rich Man" is the same as Skipper's experience. "The Straw Rich Man" describes a poor man who, using the straw he first got, repeatedly bartered for money, finally became a monopoly.
And this is not the first time that fairy tales have been illuminated into reality, after an American man Kyle Macdonald once exchanged a red paper clip for a house that was free of rent for one year.
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