Couple who quit their jobs aged 20 now make up to £20k each month from side hustles

A young couple who ditched their old jobs are now raking in tens of thousands of pounds a month from two easy side hustles and are now on their way to making six-figures.

Shae Spice and Jake Davis, both 20, say they have always been entrepreneurial and took a £3,000 online course together to learn about setting up a property job.

Alongside it, the former cleaner and delivery drivers launched their own reselling business, named The Unfiltered Store, which sees them invest up to £2,000 in their business through buying stock and selling it on to customers.

The pair said it made 'no money' initially, but then rapidly took off. They have since made between £10,000 and £15,000 every month through buying items for between £5 and £10 a piece and selling them at £20 to £40.

Now they have transitioned to selling items, and specialise in vintage designer handbags. They flog them through live auction sites like eBay Live and TikTok, and made £20,000 revenue in their first month.

Their additional money comes on top of thousands they are already making from subletting their three-bed home in Manchester. With their landlord's permission, they are making around £2,000 profit every month for what they say is 'four hours' of work.

"We made basically no money... it was hard at the start"

Jake, a company director, from Manchester, said: “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.

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 explained. “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 began the reselling of clothes in June 2025. Jake explained: "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. Jade added: “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”.

Couple now rake in thousands a month

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.

They 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 said.

"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.

Jake and Shae say they made £8,000 from reselling and £4,000 from their Airbnb. Since then, the side hustles have grown but they 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 said. “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."

The pair said they make a 'mood board' every year and that everything from last year's list has come true. It is predicted they could make £100,000 of revenue in one month with 'the way the business is going'.

Jake said: “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. 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”.