'We don’t really go out' Couple in 20s ditch day jobs and take on side hustles to make £100,000 a month

A savvy 20-year-old couple made £20,000 in one month from two easy side hustles - and have now ditched their cleaning and delivery driving jobs.

Shae Spice and Jake Davis from Manchester have always been entrepreneurial and took a £3,000 online course together to learn about setting up a property side hustle.

Alongside it, they launched their own reselling business – The Unfiltered Store – investing a further £1,500-£2,000 in the business by buying stock.

It made "no money" for the first three months but then took off and they have made between £10,000 and £15,000 per month over the last nine months, buying items for between £5 and £10 and selling them at £20 to £40.

They have recently transitioned to selling items – specialising in vintage designer handbags - through live auctions on sites like WhatNot, eBay Live and TikTok – making £20,000 revenue in their first month.

In August 2025, they started subletting a three-bed home in Manchester, with the landlord's permission. They pay £1,800 on rent and bills – consistently making around £2,000 profit monthly for around “four hours” of work.

Jake, a company director, from Manchester, says: “Always throughout school I was selling clothes and turned it into a little business of buying clothes and then selling them.

“At the end of secondary school I got a job and got fired from that job. I got fired from all the jobs I worked. I met Shae and we put our side hustles and businesses together."

Shae, also a company director, had also had an entrepreneurial upbringing, washing cars in her neighbourhood aged just seven, and went on to start her own cake making business aged 13. She also completed a T level in carpentry and joinery.

When the couple first met during college in September 2024 Shae was running her own cleaning business and Jake was working as a delivery driver and an aspiring musician.

They both decided they wanted to join forces and lived at Jake’s parents’ home whilst they figured out their business plan.

“We had two business ideas – the Airbnb and reselling vintage clothes,” Shae says. “I really like interior design. Before we met each other we looked into Airbnb separately but nothing really came of it."

After taking their online course to help start up their property side hustle, they “doubled down” on reselling clothes in June 2025.

Jake says: “We invested, used savings and were risking it all. The total investment was £5,000 which was a ballsy amount to be fair. From June 2025 to the end of August and September – we made basically no money, it was hard at the start. We were selling clothes and reinvesting everything back into it. After month two we’d only made between £1,000 and £2,000.

“Our first £5,000 month was in October at the start of Q4 and by the end of December we made £12,000”.

The pair started by reselling clothes on Vinted but now use WhatNot and TikTok to do live streaming auctions.

Jake says: “We’re basically doing that now and it’s the focus for the rest of the year. Platforms basically host live streams. Basically you hold up the item to show the audience and they can bid on that item.

“We’ll just go live and whilst people are scrolling on TikTok and social media it will pop up, they can join our livestream if they like what we’re selling – we're selling now more vintage designer bags.

“We spend £30 to £60 per bag and look to sell it anywhere between £80 an multiple hundreds.

“If it’s Gucci or Louis Vuitton it could be £400 plus”.

The couple estimate they are selling 50 to 100 items per livestream, which they do multiple times per week earning up to £5,000 in revenue per stream.

The rented out a self-storage shipping container for £250 per to house their stock, before upgrading to a place double the size in October 2025 for £500 per month.

Trusting their business would take off they secured a home in Manchester with a combination of savings and the money they had already made from reselling to rent out on Airbnb in August 2025.

They rent out their place to a “mix” of clients, including tourists, builders housed by their employers whilst working nearby and even had somebody book out a three-month block through their insurance as emergency accommodation after a leak in their home. They charge anywhere between £150 and £300 per night depending on the season.

“We got the coach to Manchester, collected the keys and spent seven days in Manchester setting up an empty three-bed house and turning into a luxury-style Airbnb,” Jake says. “We are paying them [their landlord] £1,300 on top of that with bills it's £1,800 for us.

"We know need to hit that £1,800 figure every month to break even and any sales after that is profit. In December 2025 we were making an additional £4,000 profit off that singular unit via Airbnb. It's not like that throughout the year but we've never lost money it. It's very passive, we literally spend a few hours on it each month.

“In September and October our reselling picked up and we were running out of storage space at the unit and upgraded to a place double the size. December was the first month we did £12,000 profit."

They made £8,000 from reselling and £4,000 from their Airbnb.

And since then the side hustles have grown but admit they “scrambled” through the year’s first business quarter. They quit their jobs in May 2025 and moved into their own flat in Manchester in January 2026.

“From then it’s been a slow trajectory upwards,” Jake says. “Basically we decided in May to transition towards a different way of selling. We’re doing live selling on WhatNot and TikTok where you can bid on live streams to buy items. It’s a new way of e-commerce. In June we made £20,000 revenue from the new live selling angle.

“Another revenue stream we’ve added is social media and brands paying us to collab with other people through affiliate commission. In March we released an e-book, a digital product for £30 literally explaining the blueprint of our business model and just explaining how to resell.

“Me and Shae make a mood board every year. On the mood board, last year’s one, all the things we wanted to happen came true. The way we’re going I can say the business will make £100,000 revenue in one month”.

Their aim is now to hit a £20,000 monthly profit which they expect to make this month, and work towards making £100,000 revenue monthly.

Jake says: “Long term wise I’ve always said I wanted to retire my parents early and that’s the same for Shae and her mum. We want general financial freedom, we want to live abroad and travel the world – maybe have a few different house in different countries and raise a family.

“In our twenties we’re focusing on building that quote on quote generational wealth that can be something to last us that period.”