We quit our cleaning & delivery jobs at 20 and now make up to £20k a MONTH from easy side hustles – how you can too

A SAVVY 20-year-old couple made £20,000 in revenue in just one month after turning two easy side hustles into their full-time jobs. Shae Spice and Jake Davis have now ditched their cleaning and delivery driving roles after their reselling business and property side hustle took off. Shae Spice and Jake Davis, both 20, have ditched their cleaning and delivery driving jobs and now make up to £20k a month in revenue from side hustles Credit: SWNS When Shae met Jake in September 2024, he was working as a delivery driver Credit: SWNS The ambitious pair, who live in Manchester, have always had an entrepreneurial streak. Shae was washing cars in her neighbourhood aged just seven before starting a cake-making business at 13, while Jake spent his school years buying and flipping clothes. Sign up for the Money newsletter Thank you! Shae also completed a T level in carpentry and joinery. When the pair met at college in September 2024, she was running her own cleaning business and Jake was working as a delivery driver and an aspiring musician. Read more on small businesses Wanting to build something bigger together, they moved into Jake’s parents’ house in January 2025 to save cash and figure out a business plan. Jake says: “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.” Most read in Money Taking the gamble Their reselling business journey – The Unfiltered Store – began in June 2025 Credit: SWNS They buy stock from vintage wholesalers in the UK – including Ralph Lauren shirts, baggy cargo shorts and carpenter trousers Credit: SWNS The couple quit their jobs in May 2025 and decided to target two business ideas: reselling clothes and subletting a property on Airbnb. In the meantime, they got on financially with low costs from living at Jakes’ parents. They did not have to pay rent or bills, and only needed money for food shopping, which they were able to gather through a mix of savings and the reselling business. “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.” They risked £5,000 of their combined savings to get started in May 2025 – spending £3,000 on a six-week online course by Dash Properties about setting up a property side hustle. This included video training with different modules talking through how to pitch to landlords, sales skills and how to find and stage a property. They also had weekly calls with mentors and access to a discord channel to ask questions. In June 2025, they also launched their own reselling business – The Unfiltered Store – investing a further £1,500-£2,000 in the business by buying stock from vintage wholesalers in the UK – including Ralph Lauren shirts, baggy cargo shorts and carpenter trousers. Jake said: “We invested, used savings and were risking it all. The total investment was £5,000, which was a ballsy amount to be fair. “At the start, it was hard. From June to September, we made basically no money. We were selling clothes and reinvesting every penny back into the business. “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”. Over the past nine months, they’ve made between £10,000 and £15,000 in revenue per month. The simple switch that led to £20,000 revenue Since starting to buy and sell stock, they’ve had to upgrade their storage facilities to keep up with demand Credit: SWNS They now live sell on platforms like Tiktok, eBay Live and WhatNot Credit: SWNS After starting out on Vinted, buying items for £5 to £10 from wholesalers and selling them for £20 to £40, they have shifted their focus to live-stream auctions on TikTok, eBay Live, and WhatNot. While these come with up to 12% fees, Jake says there are “no real costs” to the method. “The fee is automatically deducted from each sale and is similar on other platforms,” Jake said. “It’s a scalable, trending way of selling e-commerce. “For people just getting started Vinted and Depop are a good way to make money online. Jake says: “We’re basically doing live selling now and it’s the focus for the rest of the year. “Platforms host live streams. 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 now selling more vintage designer bags. “We spend £30 to £60 per bag and look to sell it anywhere between £80 and 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 session. The live selling switch has paid off – in June 2026 alone they brought in £20,000 in revenue. In September and October, they had to upgrade from a £250-a-month storage container to a unit double the size for £500 a month to keep up with demand. Finding their property to sublet In the meantime, the property gamble has paid off too. In August 2025, trusting their business would take off, they secured a three-bed home in Manchester with a combination of savings and the money they had already made from reselling. With the landlord’s permission before they signed the contract – a so-called company let agreement – they started to rent it out on Airbnb. “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 we 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 on it. “It’s very passive, we literally spend a few hours on it each month. 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 – and now consistently make around £2,000 a month in profit. ‘We’re eyeing £100,000 monthly revenue next’ Since then the side hustles have grown, but the couple admits they “scrambled” through the year’s first business quarter. In January 2026, they moved into their own rental flat in Manchester. The couple have also expanded their income streams by releasing an e-book for £30, which explains the blueprint of their business model and how to resell. Plus, they’ve added social media as brands pay them to collaborate with other people through affiliate commissions. 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: “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”. “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 houses 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. “We don’t really go out, we don’t really party, we’re locking in right now to build for our future and enjoy the rest of our lives so we don’t have to stress”. Comment now