A SAVVY schoolgirl has made £200 in just weeks by selling handmade jewellery in the hopes it will be her ticket to see her favourite stars in concert. Daisy Donaghy-Gibbons, 12, from the West Midlands , buys the beads to make bracelets and phone charms for £2-£3 from e-commerce site Temu, which is enough to make around 40 accessories. She sells roughly six bracelets a week for for £4 each on her Instagram page, beads.
byboo, while phone charms go for £10 each. Daisy first started selling her jewellery in June last year as a way of filling her time during the school holidays, and was delighted when she earned £200 in just a few weeks. Daisy is one of hundreds of thousands of children using side hustles as a way to top up their savings, new data shows.
A recent study of 300,000 children by Natwest found 40% had said they made extra money by getting paid to do jobs or picking up a side hustle. "I've always loved fashion and accessories, and I also wanted to earn some extra pocket money, so beaded bracelet business was an easy place for me to start," Daisy said. "I love being creative, so being able to earn some extra money as well as doing something I enjoy has been great.
" After trying a few methods of flogging her wares, Daisy quickly found social media is the best place to sell her accessories and has now employed some savvy tactics to get her business noticed. She told The Sun: "Sales have become easier since my mum helped me to use social media like Instagram to advert.