{"id":1457,"date":"2021-05-12T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T06:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/trading-up-one-womans-quest-to-swap-a-hairpin-for-a-house\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T06:52:40","slug":"trading-up-one-womans-quest-to-swap-a-hairpin-for-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/trading-up-one-womans-quest-to-swap-a-hairpin-for-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading up: one woman\u2019s quest to swap a hairpin for a house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demi Skipper would like a new house, but she\u2019s not buying one. Instead she\u2019s planning a daring strategy of trades \u2013 and millions are following her journey<\/p>\n<p>While many of us were still finding novelty in group Zoom calls last May, Demi Skipper decided she was going to get a house. But not using money. Instead, she was going to trade items.<\/p>\n<p>Now the owner of one of only a few Chipotle celebrity cards in the world, and hoping to reach a house by the end of summer, the 29-year-old\u2019s journey started where many voyages do: in a YouTube hole.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/may\/12\/demi-skipper-bobby-pin-trade-house\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4a090f89e8d9f4eb7f985c1e93431bcf6420b1dc\/0_302_4032_2419\/master\/4032.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=df84b0650bf42b4438b8d2ca612ae3cf\" title=\"Trading up: one woman\u2019s quest to swap a hairpin for a house\" \/>Demi Skipper would like a new house, but she\u2019s not buying one. Instead she\u2019s planning a daring strategy of trades \u2013 and millions are following her journey<br \/>\nWhile many of us were still finding novelty in group Zoom calls last May, Demi Skipper decided she was going to get a house. But not using money. Instead, she was going to trade items.<br \/>\nNow the owner of one of only a few Chipotle celebrity cards in the world, and hoping to reach a house by the end of summer, the 29-year-old\u2019s journey started where many voyages do: in a YouTube hole. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demi Skipper would like a new house, but she\u2019s not buying one. Instead she\u2019s planning a daring strategy of trades \u2013 and millions are following her journey While many of us were still finding novelty in group Zoom calls last May, Demi Skipper decided she was going to get a house. But not using money. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/trading-up-one-womans-quest-to-swap-a-hairpin-for-a-house\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trading up: one woman\u2019s quest to swap a hairpin for a house<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}