Mum who earns £2,000 a month reselling vintage clothes funds dream Vegas trip and is now tackling her debt

A mother who makes £2,000 a month through her side hustle reselling vintage clothes has funded family holidays and a £10,000 trip to Las Vegas, and now plans to use her earnings to clear her £8,000 debt.

Lynne Matthews, a 52-year-old company secretary, left her full-time job in 2015 due to her father being unwell and turned to her hobby of reselling as a way to earn extra income.

Lynne, who lives in Wiltshire, began sourcing clothes from charity shops and car boot sales, reselling them on eBay to help fund school trips for her two sons and family holidays.

In 2025, she began buying bundles of wholesale vintage clothing on Fleek and reselling the items individually on Vinted and live selling platforms, such as Whatnot, earning around £2,000 a month.

Her success has even funded “once-in-a-lifetime” holidays to Las Vegas and Memphis.

Now, Lynne is focused on clearing her £8,000 debt by May while continuing to grow her business, which she runs from a shipping container.

Lynne told PA Real Life: “I put things on my credit card during Covid and it just snowballed.

“I plodded along with it, and just not really taken much notice of it, but I’m determined it’s going this year.

“I love reselling – I definitely get a thrill from when the phone goes ‘cha-ching’.”

After giving birth to her two sons in 2003 and 2005, Lynne decided to start selling clothes online.

She said: “I ideally wanted to be a stay at home mum, but I couldn’t really afford to, so I went back to work part time, but to make a little bit of extra money and not have to keep buying new clothes all the time, I used to basically sell their old wardrobe and then re-buy the next size up second hand.”

In 2015, she left her full-time job as her father became ill.

She then decided to focus on reselling so she had money “to put aside for the future”.

At the time, Lynne visited car boot sales and charity shops, focusing on picking up “well made and good quality” items to resell on eBay.

She said: “I just have the ethos, if I can make money on it, I’ll sell it – it doesn’t always have to be big flips.

“If I can make a few pounds and then use those few pounds to buy the next thing, I will, and then it snowballs.

“I like slow fashion. I love vintage Monsoon and I love the 60s aesthetic, but I would really pick up anything – like sleeping bags.”

Her reselling allowed her to fund her son’s residential school trips and holidays to Australia, Florida and Singapore.

In 2020, she began selling on Vinted, and in 2025 she discovered the reselling community on TikTok.

She began posting on TikTok under the handle @hustlelynne in November 2024 and has since racked up more than 18,000 followers.

She said: “I started showing people what I was selling on TikTok and it started to do well – I was so surprised as a more mature woman.”

Through TikTok, she discovered Fleek in 2025 – a platform where people can buy wholesale vintage clothes.

She then began buying bundles on Fleek and reselling the items on Vinted, and live selling platforms, making around £1,500 to £2,000 a month from her side hustle.

Last year, her sister-in-law wanted to go to Las Vegas for her 50th birthday – costing £10,000 including flights, hotels, a trip to the Grand Canyon, spending money and show tickets.

Lynne managed to save up for the trip through reselling alone.

She said her husband, Sean, 53, and friends were “very proud” of her success.

“I purchased loads of stuff through Fleek, they sell set bundles,” Lynne explained.

“I also found a vintage Beatrice von Tresckow jacket – that cost me £10 and they sell for about £600.

“Anything designer or hand embellished, I’ll take to the dry cleaners.”

She has also sold a lot of “Christmas novelty knit jumpers” that are made in South America and America.

She added: “They cost about £5 or £6 each on Fleek, and you can get £20 upwards on Vinted for one.

“I have a lot of high quality knitted jumpers made from alpaca – I repair them if there’s a hole and I get £50 or £60 on those.”

Lynne also purchases bundles of around 20 denim jackets and resells them for more than double the price.

“When it’s coming up to festival time I found that band t-shirts did really well, and embellished shorts,” she said.

“Denim waistcoats flew out too.”

She runs her side hustle from a shipping container in the office she shares with her husband.

Lynne spends around three hours a day running the business, and still sees it as a “fun hobby”.

She added: “I’ve got a lot of repeat buyers now – when I look through Fleek, I think I know that so and so would like that jumper, and I’ll buy it, and I’ll say to that person, ‘I picked up an amazing jumper for you’.”

Since going to Las Vegas in 2025, she has also travelled to Memphis, Tennessee, where she visited Graceland – the home of Elvis Presley.

Her reselling funded the entire trip, costing £4,000 in total, and £600 for the Graceland tickets.

Looking ahead, her next goal is to pay off her £8,000 credit card debt by May this year.

To others wanting to start reselling, she said: “Don’t be afraid to do it.

“If something doesn’t sell that you thought would make a lot of money, it just means that it wasn’t the right time for that to sell.

“Bundle it up, fill it with other things.

“There’s such a big reselling community out there – find your community and support each other.”

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