SAN FRANCISCO -- Demi Skipper, a San Francisco woman, is on a mission, a very simple one: she intends to trade a bobby pin for a house. She came up with the idea while sheltering in place. "There was ...

Hi, I'm Demi. I started to trade me project in May of 2020 with a quest to trade a single Bobby pin for a house. The rules are simple. Find people who are interested in the item I have and are also ...

TikToker Demi Skipper is trading her way up to her dream house — and right now she’s got a tiny home worth $9,500. She obviously has quite a way to go, but when you consider that she started her ...

Life under quarantine in the age of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has given many people a commodity that was previously hard to come by: time. Some have used that time to read ...

In May 2020, Demi Skipper started with a one-cent bobby pin listed on Craigslist. Now, about two dozen trades later, Skipper has bartered her way up to an $80,000 house. The San Francisco resident ...