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WSJ Your Money Briefing

How Young Entrepreneurs Earn Thousands Selling Clothes Online

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This is a special bonus episode of Your Money Briefing. We’re calling it Keeping it Money, where we'll share personal stories that offer even more insight on your money habits and goals. We’ll take a deep dive into ways that you can make some extra cash.  In this episode, host Ariana Aspuru speaks with online resellers who use platforms like Depop, Poshmark and WhatNot to turn items like old clothes into additional income that helps support their lifestyles and even pay down student loans.  Tell us what you think of this episode! Send us an email to [email protected].  Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Race the rudder, raise the sails, raise the sales!

0:05.0

Captain, an unidentified ship approaching. Over.

0:07.0

Roger that. Wait, is that an enterprise sales solution?

0:13.0

Reach sales professionals, not professional sailors.

0:17.0

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0:21.4

To get £100 off your first campaign, go to LinkedIn.com slash lead to claim your credit.

0:26.7

That's LinkedIn.com slash lead. Terms and conditions apply.

0:35.2

Some of this is new inventory that I've sourced but haven't gotten around yet to listing, taking photos,

0:41.5

and really going through the process of how I'm going to price these items and what prices I think they should sell for.

0:49.1

That's Angelina Licari. This is what it sounds like when she's sorting through racks of clothes to sell online.

0:55.5

My eyes are going to that, like, bright pink number. What is that?

0:58.6

This one is going to be a kind of high-low, maxi dress that is a wrap style with the ruffles in the front.

1:07.5

Kind of a tulip hemline is what we call them. And the brand on this one is actually

1:12.2

Young, Fabulous, and Broke, which is sold on Revolve and also, I feel like, describes my life

1:18.3

very well. And despite that little joke, this is actually how Angelina finances her life.

1:25.0

Selling clothes used to be a part-time side hustle to help pay for college.

1:28.9

But now it's her full-time gig. At this point, she's not just selling her clothes. She's sourcing her

1:34.7

own inventory. Most recently, I had this beautiful maxi dress and it was an off-shoulder maxi,

1:43.0

very flowy. And when I looked it up and did my research on how

1:47.1

to price it I realized that it's sold out everywhere because it was really popular this year for

1:52.8

maternity photo shoots and so the dress that originally retailed for 600 something dollars I

2:00.2

sold for 600 and that's just not very common.

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