Francisco
Francisco Life story
Francisco Javier Rodríguez Vílchez, known simply as Francisco, is a Spanish footballer manager and former player. He is the current manager of Rayo Vallecano. His career was closely associated with Almería as both a player and manager, and he started coaching the first team at the age of 35.
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TikToker Demi Skipper trades up from a hairpin to a house
Imagine if all you needed to own your own house was a worthless hairpin.
Well that is exactly the feat Demi Skipper has achieved - by Trading Up items on TikTok.
She started the Trade Me Project in May 2020 and swapped various things along The Way , including a pair of earrings, an iPhone and three tractors.
And the 30-year-old, from San Francisco , California, is now the proud owner of A House in Nashville, Tennessee.
Inspired by Kyle MacDonald, who traded His Way from a single red paperclip to A House , in a series of online trades in 2006, Ms Skipper swapped the hairpin for a pair of cheap earrings.
From there, she upgraded to four margarita glasses And Then a vacuum cleaner, trawling sites such as eBay, Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist to find The Right types of items.
Her first few trades were done In Person around San Francisco .
Later trades were made through road trips across the US.
And along The Way , Ms Skipper uploaded videos asking for trades to TikTok and Instagram and explained how her ultimate aim was to get to A House .
The vacuum cleaner turned into a snowboard, to headphones, to a laptop, to a camera.
She then swapped various pairs of Nike trainers before acquiring an iPhone And Then a 2008 Dodge Caravan.
The Vehicle 's owners drove it all The Way from Minnesota to San Francisco - and Ms Skipper's followers grew in number as the story of her Trade Me Project became more exciting.
From there, Ms Skipper got a Mini Cooper Convertible - and a couple of weeks later, she traded The Car for a necklace she thought was worth $20,000 (£15,000), which turned out to be worth less than $2,000.
Free foodAfter a frustrating Two Weeks of searching, Ms Skipper traded the necklace for a Peloton exercise bike worth $1,800.
The Peloton bike was traded up to a Mustang - and by last December, Ms Skipper had traded up to a tiny woodland cabin.
The Cabin became a Honda CRV, then three tractors, then a Chipotle celebrity card entitling her to a year's worth of free food and a catered party.
Ms Skipper managed to trade The Card for a $40,000 trailer with a Tesla Powerwall And Then , finally, she made her last trade by swapping the trailer for her very own house near Nashville.
A video she uploaded shows The Moment she saw her house for the First Time .
More Than five million people have followed her journey.
And in January, Ms Skipper and her husband plan to move from California to Tennessee to renovate their new Home .
Source of news: bbc.com
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