Like many in May 2020, Demi Skipper was looking for a distraction in the middle of quarantine. As she was racking her brain, Demi remembered a TEDx Talk she'd heard where a man traded a red paperclip for a house. Demi thought, "Maybe I could do something like that." Around the same time, she began to document her journey on TikTok...
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030447867/how-to-trade-up-from-a-bobby-pin-to-a-house