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I’m a shelf sweeper – I swiped M&S lasagne for 20p, they filled the freezer for a year… MUM says I’m out of order
A savvy mum-of-one has revealed she clears supermarket shelves of cut-price items and then sells them on for a massive profit.
Amy Ashton, 31, from Dartmouth, Kent, gets dirty looks from other shoppers as she sweeps bargains into her basket and even gets a roasting from her own mum.
Amy AshtonA savvy mum-of-one has revealed she clears supermarket shelves of cut-price items and then sells them on for a massive profit[/caption]
Amy AshtonAmy Ashton, 31, from Dartmouth, Kent, gets dirty looks from other shoppers as she sweeps bargains into her basket and even gets a roasting from her own mum[/caption]
But she says defiantly, “more fool you if you don’t do the same!”
Amy’s haul includes snapping up the entire Disney range of pyjamas in Primark when the clobber was reduced from £14 a pair to £1.
She nabbed twenty pairs, then sold them on Vinted for £10 a pop. She also cleared an entire Asda shelf of 10p nappy bags, which quickly found their way online too.
“My fiancé thinks I’m so embarrassing and people in the shops are never impressed, but if I don’t do it, someone else will”, Amy says. “I swiped every single one of those pyjamas in Primark and even my mum told me I was out of order.
She said, ‘Someone else could have had them’, well fine, but that someone else wasn’t there – I was! I’m not ashamed at all. Why would I be?”
Amy, who runs a children’s embroidery company, says she makes a full second income thanks to her side hustle, though sometimes she just likes to sweep the shelves for the sake of it.
“If I walk into a shop and there’s a deal on, I can’t resist,” she says. “Even if it’s something I don’t need. I once bought the whole shelf of lasagnes at M&S for 20p each.
“The only thing is, no one in my house eats lasagne. But they were 20p down from £4 so how could I not buy them all up?
“Eight lasagnes sat in my freezer for over a year untouched. I bought a bag of Gregg’s food that was about to go out of date too, £3 for a crazy amount of food.
“I dished it out to my family. I’ve got some sort of compulsive problem. If I spot a bargain, I can’t leave it there. I have to have it all.”
And Amy doesn’t feel guilty about denying other shoppers a cheap deal.
“Missing out on a pair of Primark PJs or a ready meal lasagne isn’t going to change their life, is it?” she argues. “Maybe I’m selfish, but we all have to make money.
“That’s the world we live in. More fool you if you don’t do the same.”
Amy AshtonShe’s even cleared an entire Asda shelf of 10p nappy bags, which quickly found their way online too.[/caption]
Amy AshtonAmy’s fiancé thinks she’s ‘so embarrassing and people in the shops are never impressed.’[/caption]
Even Amy’s long suffering fiancé Freddie begs her to stop, despite the fact he’s benefitted from her bargain hunting over the years.
“A few weeks back I walked into Office, the shoe store, and saw these great men’s shoes reduced from £80 to £7,” she explains. I knew Fred would love them, so I bought up every pair, in two colours and two sizes.”
And the ones that didn’t fit Freddie?
“I sold them to his mate for double the price,” she laughs. “Freddie says I’ve got too much front, but I don’t care! I’m not a charity!”
Amy doesn’t have a particular process when it comes to shopping – if she happens to be in a shop and there’s deal on she’ll take it. But she is aware of being trolled, so she’s conscious of how she sells her goods on.
“I’ll only list one thing at a time on Vinted. I won’t list 15 things at once or you’re asking for backlash,” she says.
And the canny shopper has her finger in other used pies too, with yet another side hustle…in dirty old prams.
She says, “I love buying prams, really dirty, grubby prams. I’ll buy them up for £20 at car boot sales, or Facebook Market place, clean them up at home – really polish them up – and sell them on for hundreds of pounds.
“I also buy stained baby clothes in bulk online. I can get the stains out of anything, so I’ll spruce them up, and sell them on again for double the price!”
A savvy mum-of-one has revealed she clears supermarket shelves of cut-price items and then sells them on for a massive profit.
Amy Ashton, 31, from Dartmouth, Kent, gets dirty looks from other shoppers as she sweeps bargains into her basket and even gets a roasting from her own mum.
Amy AshtonA savvy mum-of-one has revealed she clears supermarket shelves of cut-price items and then sells them on for a massive profit[/caption]
Amy AshtonAmy Ashton, 31, from Dartmouth, Kent, gets dirty looks from other shoppers as she sweeps bargains into her basket and even gets a roasting from her own mum[/caption]
But she says defiantly, “more fool you if you don’t do the same!”
Amy’s haul includes snapping up the entire Disney range of pyjamas in Primark when the clobber was reduced from £14 a pair to £1.
She nabbed twenty pairs, then sold them on Vinted for £10 a pop. She also cleared an entire Asda shelf of 10p nappy bags, which quickly found their way online too.
“My fiancé thinks I’m so embarrassing and people in the shops are never impressed, but if I don’t do it, someone else will”, Amy says. “I swiped every single one of those pyjamas in Primark and even my mum told me I was out of order.
She said, ‘Someone else could have had them’, well fine, but that someone else wasn’t there – I was! I’m not ashamed at all. Why would I be?”
Amy, who runs a children’s embroidery company, says she makes a full second income thanks to her side hustle, though sometimes she just likes to sweep the shelves for the sake of it.
“If I walk into a shop and there’s a deal on, I can’t resist,” she says. “Even if it’s something I don’t need. I once bought the whole shelf of lasagnes at M&S for 20p each.
“The only thing is, no one in my house eats lasagne. But they were 20p down from £4 so how could I not buy them all up?
“Eight lasagnes sat in my freezer for over a year untouched. I bought a bag of Gregg’s food that was about to go out of date too, £3 for a crazy amount of food.
“I dished it out to my family. I’ve got some sort of compulsive problem. If I spot a bargain, I can’t leave it there. I have to have it all.”
And Amy doesn’t feel guilty about denying other shoppers a cheap deal.
“Missing out on a pair of Primark PJs or a ready meal lasagne isn’t going to change their life, is it?” she argues. “Maybe I’m selfish, but we all have to make money.
“That’s the world we live in. More fool you if you don’t do the same.”
Amy AshtonShe’s even cleared an entire Asda shelf of 10p nappy bags, which quickly found their way online too.[/caption]
Amy AshtonAmy’s fiancé thinks she’s ‘so embarrassing and people in the shops are never impressed.’[/caption]
Even Amy’s long suffering fiancé Freddie begs her to stop, despite the fact he’s benefitted from her bargain hunting over the years.
“A few weeks back I walked into Office, the shoe store, and saw these great men’s shoes reduced from £80 to £7,” she explains. I knew Fred would love them, so I bought up every pair, in two colours and two sizes.”
And the ones that didn’t fit Freddie?
“I sold them to his mate for double the price,” she laughs. “Freddie says I’ve got too much front, but I don’t care! I’m not a charity!”
Amy doesn’t have a particular process when it comes to shopping – if she happens to be in a shop and there’s deal on she’ll take it. But she is aware of being trolled, so she’s conscious of how she sells her goods on.
“I’ll only list one thing at a time on Vinted. I won’t list 15 things at once or you’re asking for backlash,” she says.
And the canny shopper has her finger in other used pies too, with yet another side hustle…in dirty old prams.
She says, “I love buying prams, really dirty, grubby prams. I’ll buy them up for £20 at car boot sales, or Facebook Market place, clean them up at home – really polish them up – and sell them on for hundreds of pounds.
“I also buy stained baby clothes in bulk online. I can get the stains out of anything, so I’ll spruce them up, and sell them on again for double the price!”
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