Mum makes £5k reselling second hand car boot sale finds

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A mum has made £5,000 reselling car boot sale clothes - including hunting out a designer Mulberry bag worth £360 for 30p.  Emily Zervakis, 38, started her side hustle after clearing out clothes from her home and making £350 in profit selling them online.  After seeing how easy it was to make some cash from reselling, she decided to reinvest the £350 buying clothing from car boot sales and charity shops.  Emily has found items such as a Mulberry bag for 30p and is selling it on for £360, and a Jellycat plush toy for £1.50 which she resold for £75.  Over the last 10 months she has spend £2,500 and made £5,000 - which she has reinvested back into her side hustle.

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00:00What brands that make the best profit? I tend to buy things I like.

00:03I'm Emily and I buy secondhand items to resell for a profit.

00:07Give me a follow if you want tips and tricks.

00:09When you start off reselling, I actually think it's probably a good idea to start off with things that you like

00:14and new things that you sort of know will sell, other people will want.

00:17So I actually went to Bootsales and I picked up just anything that was good quality.

00:23If it was 50p or under, I just bought them and tried them.

00:26Brands that are always out there to be found cheaply, I would definitely say M&S and Next sell really well.

00:33Roman sells well as well, if you ever see Roman.

00:36Also, look out for labels that look expensive, you can sort of tell if something looks expensive.

00:41That is another thing I always do.

00:43And then check on eBay, sold for prices, like the brand, to see if they sell well.

00:49And honestly, you just sort of learn as you go, I've just been learning and picking it up.

00:53I find Fat Face sell really well.

00:55Vintage Next, especially Y2K stuff, so anything that looks very year 2000s,

01:00sort of think Paris Hilton, sort of that sort of stuff, sell really well.

01:06And for good money, especially if it's vintage, like I've sold some Next, vintage Next cargoes for £18

01:13because they were Y2K style.

01:15I find items that are quirky and a little bit different, a bit like the mountain t-shirts that I sell,

01:20I find there's a market for them, and definitely stuff like that.

01:24But on your journey, you will figure out what things you like to sell and what you don't like to sell

01:29and what will work for you, because I do think everyone has sort of different tastes

01:33and different ideas of what will work for them.

01:37If you watch my videos where I sell items, you can see what I sell and how much for.

01:42That is another good way to sort of get a little insight on what you can get for items.

01:46You're ready to see my thrifted haul from the Jumble Slug I got on Saturday.

01:50I got all these and all the shoes and bags I showed yesterday.

01:54Check out my other videos if you want to see them.

01:56All that cost me £25, which is mad, and I'm going to show you the clothes today.

02:00You ready? Do this as quickly as possible.

02:02So we got these Pull & Bear trousers.

02:08This is some sort of vintage dress. I'm not sure exactly, but I thought the buttons look really cool.

02:16I got this vintage Wallace dress with a little bead in.

02:23As you can see, this pretty Zara top. I love stripes.

02:29I got this, this next top, size 14.

02:35If you're reselling, these are something that you should definitely be looking out for.

02:39I purchased three of these on a store in a boot sale that was free for a pound,

02:43and they are vintage, year 2K, as you can see.

02:47Cargo trousers, look at that.

02:52So they cost me less than a pound each, like mad.

02:56They're Vintage Next, that's like a Vintage Next label.

02:59And one of these went for £18 and one of them went for £16.

03:04And there's another one that I've already sold.

03:06I can't remember now, it was a couple of weeks ago, and that sold for about £14.

03:09And these went quite quick. They probably sold within about three weeks.

03:12So keep a look out for Vintage Next cargo pants.

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