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A mum ditched her "demanding" £43k teaching job to become a vintage reseller - and now earns more a month selling old clothing on Vinted and eBay.

Jess Morton, 27, has been a primary school teacher for the last six years but started to find the job "unmanageable" and felt she couldn't be her "full self" with her family because she was so exhausted.

The mum-of-three fell in love with reselling when she listed her old size 24 clothes on Vinted after losing eight stone.

Now she has made £30k in just 10 months - an average of £3,000 a month - and says she is now matching her teacher salary per month and has money leftover to put back into her business.

She began by selling unwanted clothes given to her by friends and family, before buying and reselling vintage from the charity shop.

It was a side hustle until she began making £1,500 a month from it, which is when she realised it could be financially viable as a full time and she quit her teaching job in May.
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00:00I'm Jess. I resell vintage clothing for a living. I used to be a primary school teacher and I taught
00:08for about six years and after I had my third child I realised that the profession no longer
00:16worked with my family life. So I started reselling vintage clothing as like a side hustle while I
00:22was working as a teacher and I discovered I really really enjoyed it. I first started by
00:28selling my old clothing because I lost about eight stone in weight and a lot of my old clothing didn't fit me anymore so I stuck it on vintage and then I realised there was a market for it so I started investigating a little further and I went to charity shops and I found clothing to resell that way. I reached out to family members asked if they had anything that they wanted me to sell either for them and I'd take a commission or just if they were going to get rid of it anyway. As I started selling I realised what sold
00:58what sold well, what didn't sell well. I started researching niche brands and things like that. I went into American Pro Sports and an area I'm really enjoying styling at the moment is women's Y2K. So the blenny jeans, nice skirts, juicy coachella, that sort of stuff.
01:18I found it, meant for everybody.
01:23I found leather shirt and clothing like that. I found old vest lugar mmm 19
01:28I think I bought my shirt as I shared care of myself because these are very cultivated.
01:30It was my full body strip coats, and it is amazing.
01:33So I started selling lovely � найm. Old vest, I became a star of a magical beauty in tow, I never did.
01:39It was very candid but I turned around to make my hair and I cut.
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