Video: How an American blogger exchanged an ordinary invisible hairpin for a house in just 14 moves
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In 2005, a Canadian blogger became famous all over the world for exchanging an ordinary red paper clip for a two-story farmhouse in 14 deals. Now his "feat" has decided to repeat the 29-year-old Demi Skipper from San Francisco. And she also wants to domain home. The essence of the experiment is that you exchange a cheap thing for a slightly more expensive one, and the next one for an even more valuable one. And so on until you have something that you can easily exchange for a whole house.
Demi started off with a simple invisible hair clip. As crazy as it may sound, but since mid-May, when she announced the beginning of the experiment on TikTok and posted her first "lot" on the Internet, she has already made 18 transactions, bringing her "financial chain" to MacBook, and is not going to slow down revolutions.
And now it's worth telling what items and what she was able to exchange. So, the woman exchanged invisibility for earrings, and for them, in turn, she bought a set of glasses for "Margarita". She managed to exchange these glass glasses for a whole vacuum cleaner. Maybe someone will consider such an exchange to be unequal, but as the subscribers noticed in the comments, if used improperly, vacuum cleaners of this model tend to light up. Perhaps the former owner knew this and hurried to get rid of the capricious equipment, or maybe he just loves "Margarita" more than home cleaning.
Demi gave the vacuum cleaner to someone who dreamed of getting rid of a snowboard with bindings (worth $ 95), but for a long time this board did not lie with her, because after a couple of days she informed her followers on Instagram that she now has an Apple TV worth 180 bucks and she is ready to change further.
Further in this chain were headphones, a game console with two remotes, a 2011 MacBook, a Canon camera with interchangeable lenses, alternately three pairs of expensive sneakers (as Demi was exchanged for more and more expensive models) and the iPhone 11 Pro Max, which she exchanged for a used car Dodge Caravan worth just over a thousand "green".
Naturally, it would be too shallow for Demi to remain the owner of the car, because she dreams of a home. Therefore, she quickly changed the car for a cool Boosted Board V3 Plus longboard. And the board is again on the MacBook, but already in 2017, which costs, as stated in Demi's ad, $ 1,400. So far, this is her last deal.
Demi is not a swindler at all. She works in the restaurant reservations business and runs a wedding dress rental company. However, the young woman claims that by nature she has always been a born adventurer.
By the way, such a barter trick has long been known in folklore. Tales of such exchanges in different variations are found in the cultures of different countries - for example, in the Japanese Buddhist Legend of the Straw Millionaire, which tells the story of a poor man who became rich through a series of successive exchanges that began with a single bundle of straw.
By the way, about Japan. It is still not known exactly did the shaman queen Himiko actually exist, about which ancient legends are composed.
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