Move over, Dwight Schrute, there's a new swapper in town: Her name is Demi Skipper, and she has singlehandedly proved that it actually IS possible to get something for nothing...well, almost nothing, anyway.

About a year and a half ago, in May of 2020, Skipper decided to give the old-fshioned art of the swap a try, starting a viral TikTok campaign when she announced that it was her goal to trade her single, humble bobby pin all the way up to a house.

It worked.

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Starting out simple by just sharing her story online, Skipper got her initial bite in the form of a pair of earrings (and an invitation to the eventual housewarming party) from a sorority Facebook group, and with that, she was off to the races.

"I thought it was going to take five years," Skipper said. "A year and a half and 28 trades isn't nearly as bad as I thought."

Some of these trades were fascinating, like the time Skipper managed to get a Chipotle Celebrity card, entitling her to free Chipotle for life (only to turn right around trade it to Canada's number one Chipotle fan).

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The final trade on her journey was with a realtor who flips houses: She traded a solar-powered trailer for a home in Clarksville Tennessee, worth about $80,000.

Skipper plans to move from her current home in San Francisco to renovate the new house - but the best part is, she intends to sell it at exactly the price she paid for it: One paperclip.

That's right, Skipper has no intent to keep the wealth she's so craftily accumulated: She's just going to change someone's life - and then she's going to turn around and start all over again!

Yes, that was ANOTHER twist in this story: Instead of trading her find in for magic beans, she's going to trade back down to a paperclip and go right back on trading for more homes. You can follow her continued journey on Tiktok, where she goes by the handle @trademeproject.