Right, so we've just done the giveaway now - 25 Sep 2025 - (9,417 words) - Jaynes Baby Bank
Right, so we've just done the giveaway now.
Don't forget you need to participate to be in it guys.
I'm doing my mother's put together like sashes and ribbons.
She's got them all bundled together.
So I'm just pricing them and put them in a little box.
Right, listen now.
I've got a lady in Caerphilly that's willing to teach card making for the mothers, right, craft class.
And I've also got another lady's willing to teach crochet.
I might have one Pontipool way that's willing to do artwork.
Okay, so far.
So now I need a hub so we can start doing these craft classes for mothers.
They're not for kids.
Look at the kids.
It's time the mothers had a bit of space and enjoyed it.
They'll be free.
A lot of the stuff is donated anyway.
So, you know, so totally free for mothers to come and put these little bags and stuff for us guys and tubs and let me show you whatever tub I got.
Right, so I need a hub other than if we haven't got a hub, you'll have to do it in one of the shops.
But we I need at least like well two to three to start off with until they get comfortable with bigger groups, okay?
Well, you only get two to three in a blooming crafter in there, won't you?
Let's be fair.
Now keep, you know, like when you have the popcorn tubs and the flumpy ones.
Ideal for our blocks and stuff.
All right, so keep them for me guys.
Any little tubs like that or smaller.
Anything, because we can chuck a couple of the blocks and bricks in there or whatever and then go from there, see?
So we've got a couple of ladies now willing to do teaching.
So I mean crocheting is a lovely one, isn't it?
That'd be lovely.
She came in looking for buttons.
I was like, ah, hang on.
Let me have a look at this bag because my mother put some stuff in there.
Like did I notice there was like haberdashery in there?
So...
This is what you call haberdashery.
Bits of material like this and you know, remember when Sherlock said, oh you don't stock haberdashery?
Like hello, we're one of the biggest stockers of haberdashery in Wales.
Thank you very much, sustainable haberdashery.
Parking attendants on Pentriban Street.
Now two of them looking active.
Parking man, tell everybody quickly, quickly, quickly.
They've just walked up by there.
This is what you call haberdashery.
Now, it's usually stored in Pontypool shops.
So...
I don't know where to take these over to Pontypool.
However, they'll do a little stint here first.
It might be that we have to bring the haberdashery around the shops now.
Look, see like she's got, she's got a little...
My mum's come across these, look.
So she's gone well.
We won't bin them.
Now most people would bin them.
I won't because I might get a dressing gown in that hasn't got one.
A sash or a ribbon, right?
That's a lovely one with the little beads on in there.
We might get a dressing that I haven't got it on and we can put it with it.
Or somebody might come in and say, oh, I'm looking for a little bit of ribbon.
I said, oh, hang on.
We got a ribbon box somewhere.
All recycling in it, guys.
So, you know, we recycle a lot.
A lot of people are like, oh...
It's not just baby stuff, you know.
Our title limits us a bit, doesn't it?
You know, baby bank.
Because a lot of people think it's just baby stuff.
Even now, people still think it's just baby stuff.
And it's not.
We recycle a lot of stuff.
So that's good.
And then we're looking for a sponsor to sponsor a shipping container because we've got no room for stuff in the shop.
But we could be helping out the teams that go to Uganda quite a bit.
But I'm wondering if there's somebody out there that will help us sponsor it.
And then...
Because there's only, like, I've got to abide by the CE laws and the trading standard laws of this country.
As a retailer, even if you were just giving them out for free, you've still got to apply.
It's like, I tell you, a good example of this is the P. Louise pajama debacle that's going on at the moment.
She's selling 100% cotton pajamas.
And they're not 100% cotton pajamas.
They're viscose, 95% viscose.
But they are highly flammable and she hasn't got the right fire labels in them.
And they're 50 quid.
But the other thing is that all nightwear, all children's wear up to a year, all fancy dress, have to have specific fire labels in.
And if they are extra flammable, they have to have red writing in them.
Otherwise, you have to put a scissors through the outfit and destroy.
I couldn't even use it as fabric, so I couldn't even put it in my haberdashery section.
Has to be destroyed and disposed of, or sent into trading standards to do.
So just for you to be aware with that, okay?
But there are things like that, that I wouldn't be able to use in this country.
But other countries could take them.
You know, other countries will take car seats because they have no...
You know, when it's here, they have to be within so many months, I think.
You know, and whatnot.
Like, the police brought us one this morning, didn't they?
They probably had to go and check it, I expect, because they probably said, oh god, somebody left their baby.
But it looks brand new.
I can't see why somebody would leave that on the side of the road like that.
Either somebody's put it down and forgotten about it.
I can't see them just dumping it on the side of a road.
I'm sure they would have left that outside of a charity shop or something.
I know a lot of places won't touch car seats.
I think it's going through to a debate at the moment in here whether we can sell them or not in this country.
This is why I've thought about the Uganda appeal again.
Because I've had somebody buy in, buy a job, a lot of trainers for Uganda.
So I'd give them a deal.
Should have been 20 pounds.
But we get them for 10.
You know, he's a good customer.
He's been back and forth.
He's been over at Pontypool as well as Caerphilly.
And they're going for a good cause, aren't they?
So he probably had about 40 pairs for a tenner.
So that's good, isn't it?
And we got 10 pounds from him, you know.
So we're happy enough.
But obviously they're looking into other stuff now.
What can and can't be sold in the UK again.
So if they say, absolutely no way can you sell any car seat.
Then, or you can't sell any of this pram, or you can't sell any of this material, or you can't sell...
You know, they will still take them in other countries, which prevents them going to landfill.
And we know a family that take them in.
We've met them, you know, they actually drive the van into Uganda.
OK, she goes over there for a couple of months, Margaret, do.
I'd love to go over there as well.
At the moment, we're not looking for anybody to finance the trip because the trip is still going anyway.
And it's financed by the villages and communities in this country.
We're looking for somebody to finance the storage of the stuff because these car seats are big, bulky things, right?
And they all come with these fitting bits now as well.
You can't even lift them.
So they're difficult to store, you know.
So they, you know, I can't just have them sat around the shops because they're a nightmare.
And then if trading standards come in and they're like, oh, is this car seat for sale?
And I'm like, no, I could fill this shop in a year with car seats, right?
But then I've got a shop sat here doing nothing overnight with car seats I can't use in this country or bottles.
For example, social services came in the other day and brought those bottles in and they said nobody else will take them.
No other baby bank would take them.
And they're like mam bottles, you know.
They're like, you know, bottles that are good and they were good condition.
But sometimes they're not.
And sometimes we get millions in and they're just not selling.
So we could put them in the container ready to go to Uganda, couldn't we?
So that's the plan with that, anyway.
But we'd like a company to sponsor us because the thing is, you know, it would probably be like 150 to 200 pound a month for a shipping container to put all these things in.
And we'll pack it in like Jenga, you know.
You see how much we get in our shops.
You can imagine what we could get in a sealed shipping container.
But I see if I've got to spare 250 pound and I can't justify that because I need to put it into the nappies or into the food banks or get half of another shop to be doing something useful and recycling like this.
So we're looking for a company to sponsor us.
Members of the public, you know, whatever's left over or if we get more, then we do two shipping containers or, you know, if we double the sponsor, we get two shipping containers or we help fund the trip to go over.
Because I always thought the, you know, cash for clothes and all of those.
I'm sure it's my cash for clothes to give us so much stuff because I always thought that they gave the clothes to Africa and places like that and third world countries, but they don't, they sell them.
And if they can't afford them, they end up in Africa's landfill.
If they can't sell them over there.
That's why I put the video on the other day because I found the video again.
So that's our plan.
But we need financial input with it for the shipping container.
You'll get receipts.
You'll have receipts for it.
This is, you know, there's, you know, I mean, the police turned up, you know, this week we've had social services turn up with donations and we've had the police turn up with a car seat this morning, you know, so you can have access to the shipping container and you,
you know, you can go in there and you can see how we're doing and you can have progress reports yourself and come over, fill it and stack it if you like.
I really know that bothered like, you know, but it'll be publicity for your company as well, helping others abroad.
And we also have backup families that we know ship to Uganda and places in Mumbai and places like that.
On standby, once I, I'm preempting, it'll take, well, it'd probably take less than 12 months to fill a shipping container with us.
But I'm preempting say a year before they go because they're due to go, you see.
So while we could help them fill this truck, if we're going to go into the new year and store, store items, we're going to need a shipping container separate to what we do to put it in.
Um, you know, but they, they struggle because they, they haven't got like cot mat, well they haven't got cot, so they, you know, they really, really struggle with these items guys.
So if we can help other mothers elsewhere, we can do it.
But like I said, we will need help financially with a shipping container.
Um, so there's an opportunity there for sponsorship.
Uh, and you can be involved as much or as little as you like.
You, you don't have to be, you can be anonymous.
You can be, and then obviously I'm going to start promoting the, um, our industrial washing machine GoFundMe that I got up as well because we could do with more washing machines.
We could do a two-week shop, if I'm honest.
We really could, uh, to save, keep saving stuff, especially this time of the year when stuff gets dumped everywhere.
You know, I got a now that needs all the covers off it need bigger drums.
We do bigger drums and they're very good.
The industrial ones, like the Dyson ones are very good cleaners that the little one that we got over Pontypool.
I mean, he's, he's been working for years, but, um, he had me off since we've had him, but we could do with more,
um, do with bigger, better industrial ones is what we need.
And I could do with two per shop because I had, I had a bag of washing from, well, one in whisker perhaps, but I had a bag of washing every day.
We've got a bag of washing.
I got a bag of washing out there now and trainers to wash and the trainers come up lovely, which means we can get more fundraising from.
So like I got a pair of Nike Jordans, I think now out there or whatever they're called white, but they're going to go in the wash, you know, and they'll come out lovely.
They will in the wash, but a GIF, but a GIF and stick them in the wash SIF now it's called an S, showing my age here, a GIF, you know, old draw, you can remember an oblong being called a rectangle.
What's that oblong?
Remember SIF and Marathon, remember Marathon bars?
What else?
What else?
Can you remember getting a pen and having to wind up your tape because it had all spilled out inside your machine, your Walkman, and you had to wind your tape back up, your music tape, or waiting on the radio to record the songs that you wanted on the radio.
Kids got no fun today, have they?
No fun, they just video themselves fighting now, don't they?
We used to have loads of fun, didn't we?
Go and build a camp, go down the river.
Loads of fun.
Set fire to something?
Set fire to something?
Save your friends from falling off a cliff?
We used to have loads of fun, didn't we?
Kids don't know them.
Well, they haven't got a clue today, have they?
I mean, yeah, we had like games like Frogger.
Remember Frogger and the other games we used to have on the computer?
Trying to get a frog before it died on the end of the screen.
One of the ones.
There was one on the Dragon 32 and it was called Kaleidoscope.
We just sit there and watch all the pixels moving around.
But they haven't got a clue today, have they kids?
I wouldn't want to be a kid today.
It looks so boring.
They're all Instagram and, you know, they've got this makeup for the kids and they're too young in there.
You know, they're buying like this drunk elephant and this Peel-A-Wee stuff in there.
You know, they're like five and six in there.
You know, they should still be playing.
Like, like the water bombs.
I had the water bomb thing yesterday and it had age eight, age eight on it.
What eight year old today is going to be wanting to play with water bombs?
Lucky if they're not carrying bloody knives.
It's like the, the Nerf guns.
We're getting tons of Nerf guns in, right?
And I think it's because they put the age up to like 14.
It's like what 14 year old would want a Nerf gun?
You know, stupidity in there.
But there we are.
There we are.
We're still, we're still taking the Nerf guns at the moment.
I haven't had anybody object to me taking guns and selling plastic guns as of yet.
But if what we've decided is plastic knives and obviously if we get any like paring knives in or fruit knives, like we've had remember there, like sometimes you get like fishing knives in, then you'd have to be, well, I think we said 25.
I don't know if it's 21 or 25.
I can't remember, but I, they got to be 25 an ID.
That's what I said to the boys.
And what happened with that was his father come with him and he said, Oh, you've been after this knife.
He said, so am I okay to buy it?
I said, well, that's up to you.
As long as you're buying it and you got your ID.
You know, you're not an axe murderer.
You can have it.
Okay.
I've also got a little update about the, remember the issue in Risca library and the police asked me to take it down because he was vulnerable.
Social services have contacted me as well.
And I've explained to him that it was me actually confessed doing it too.
Not, he didn't, didn't rape me, but he confessed raping a 10 year old girl to me.
Yeah.
I'm the one that made the police complaint contacted the staff and everybody else.
So don't tell me no complaints have been made about him because I know they have.
Anyway, anyway, what they said in the end was they are having trouble locating a victim.
Yeah, whatever.
You described it in full detail.
Anyway, anyway, social services are fully aware of what happened and they're fully aware that he's still gravitating around toilets in public spaces, like libraries and warm hubs.
So they are going to just address that from their point of view as well.
But there's no concern in us being involved in it in any way, shape or form.
We know because he confessed it to me and then he worked for another charity shop in the area and they contacted us and said he isn't allowed around babies and children.
And he is trying to volunteer with you.
And we feel that we need to tell you this because he volunteered in another charity shop, you see.
I can't say which one.
But when the pet one refused to take him on, he chucked all their clothes off the rails and threw them all on the floor from.
Because they said, no, no, we don't want to volunteer in here.
True, he went nuts and threw all their clothes off the rails because it's pretty annoying.
You've spent all day putting them up and then you've got a clown like that checking them on the floor.
But that's the update anyway, is they've asked me not to post the name, locations, things like that, because he could be at risk.
But social services are aware that I've made a concern about him gravitating around toilets again.
The thing is that the coffee and all were by the toilets, but I know him from old because he tried coming into Blackwood shops and he tried...
Oh yeah, all right, it's all half price, but we only take card and contactless.
So yeah, he tried coming into Blackwood shop and then wanted to use the toilet.
And we were like, no, you're banned.
That's what he likes to do.
I'll turn you around in a minute, guys, because we've got customers in.
Oh yeah, loads, always something to do, isn't it?
Always something to recycle, always something to do.
I'm sure it breeds overnight.
I got part of the stuff in my car.
I have no idea where this come from.
I know, I have no idea where the stuff in my car have come from.
No idea at all.
I think that's part of that.
I think it's a part of the bow for the dress.
Let's put it all in one.
Sorry, guys, I'll be off in a minute.
Oh, congratulations on you won the giveaway.
I get it sorted for you because it's still in the house.
It's not ready today.
I bought some sellotape from Old New Woolies.
Good sellotape.
I don't like the pound shop sellotape.
It's rubbish and breaks.
Right, so I've got a pile of ribbons and sashes here now.
Ink and filly shop, guys.
And then I've got a lady who wants buttons, but she's also a crocheter, so she's willing to do a crochet class.
So that's lovely.
Oh, we've got a nice bag.
What's that?
That's a...
Just check it because you never know what's in these things.
So this Tesco car.
I don't even know when this was donated because I pulled this at the back room.
False nail.
Someone put it in there to stick back on it.
Okay, that's a nice bag.
I'll show you the bag now.
It's got a nice handle, look.
Sparkly's on the front.
I don't know what brand it is, but I think it's like one of these bag shop brands, you know.
I don't think this is... it was probably expensive in a bag shop, but we won't put it up expensive.
Make sure the zip works.
Moda, it says, but I don't think this is mega expensive.
Oh, I'm still finding bits.
A kind of YSL lipstick.
And I'm not sure if that's a cheap one or a Lady Gaga, maybe.
Possibly a Lady Gaga one, lip gloss.
I can't remember.
Just put it in the free box.
This one is quite full.
I don't know whether it's a cheaper version of the Lady Gaga, House of... is it House of Gaga or House of something else?
I don't know.
Probably put it in the free box for a month.
It's up to somebody else then, if they want them in there.
If not, we'll just recycle them.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah, nice to see you guys.
Ta-ra.
Oh, we've got a little charm in there, look.
No, it says Mum.
I don't know if you can see it.
I'm trying to bring it in.
No, I'm still focusing.
There's a little charm in the bag, look.
Can you see it?
It's got like a peridot, I think, on it.
How would I know if that's like a Pandora one or a cheaper version, guys?
Any idea?
Well, good luck for me.
I'm not doing it justice at the moment, because it's got a little sparkly on the top there.
Excuse my nails, guys.
I'm not money laundering from our entity, so I can't afford to have my nails done.
I can do it myself.
I've got a machine.
I've got a... I'll try and do it myself with a UV thing.
I ain't got time to rush off to Turkey and have all this plastic surgery and teeth done like the rest of them.
Too bloody busy.
So it's a lovely little charm.
Looks like a Pandora one, but I don't know if it is a Pandora one.
Somebody have a look for me, guys, and let me know.
It's a lovely little one, though.
It's not really doing it justice on you.
I don't know how much the charms would be in Pandora if it would be one.
So I don't know.
A few walkers by today.
A few new customers.
We need plenty of customers in, guys, because we're getting tons in now.
I don't want to get to the point where I've got to refuse the stuff.
This is why you always check a bag, see?
Oh, 5p.
5p for the retirement fund.
Go in the box for the food bank.
Lots of bits in it.
Oh, I got chocolate or something.
Where's the white one?
We hope it's chocolate.
I think it is.
It's got a little bit of stuff on it, but you've got to check today because you don't know what's in a bag today.
And the last thing you want to do is give a bag out and it could have something dodgy in there, couldn't it?
Like a bag or something.
Daniel had bags left outside the shop.
Ponty pool today as well.
We're not opening risk of guys who've got sickness.
Unfortunately, it's just that time of year.
We're going to try and come in tomorrow, they said, and dose themselves up and come back in.
Where is my free box?
I had a free box, I told you, please.
Yeah, here we are.
So I put that in there.
That can go in there as well.
See, it's like, look, I've got that.
Look, it's half full and then that one's half full.
That one is half full.
I've got a few of them.
That's been sent to us by Kearex.
This is like three bucks.
And it comes in.
Send it in.
If in doubt, right, send it in.
Because worst case scenario, we're giving it out for free and the packaging will be recycled.
So like, there's only a bit in there.
Somebody might want it for free.
You can see.
That is all half price.
If a customer wants something, they can have something, can't they?
Right.
What next?
I have a bag, but it has a nasty mark.
Oh, it's a River Island.
Can we get it off, guys?
If we can get the nasty mark off, it should be a nice little bag.
It might come off.
The River Islands are quite good.
We usually get about 20 to 30 for a River Island, sometimes even 40, depending on what it's like.
Sorry, I know you can't see me.
I've got another customer in.
I'll try and put him up there.
I'll get his mark off, I am.
It's a nice one.
It's a bit sparkly.
Let's check inside.
So at least the problem from risk there is on the reader.
Yes, on the reader.
Back on the reader and make sure it's kept on it.
For 40, we'll probably get 20 for him, guys.
It's come off all right.
So River Island, we do really well with that.
Nothing in the River Island bag.
I probably can't afford to put anything in the River Island bag after you buy it.
Yeah, come on, guys.
We need customers in because we've got customers, but we need more people.
I need you to spread the word because I'm getting so much in.
I mean, that lad from next door gave us three pairs of shoes as I was turning up.
Yeah, when I don't, you know, three, one was, I think two were, two were nice, good too.
And one was steel, two caps, all good shoes, you know, I could have said I want to go in a room, but they're all good shoes, aren't they?
Oh no, where's the best pen?
I don't think the best pen is here, but what have I been using to write with?
The red one was down risk, wasn't it?
Got those cabinets in.
So where's the pen from here then?
Oh, we have a blue one here, look.
See, somebody gave me a pile of colored ones.
Posh, I'm just so well in the shop.
Hey, are you all right?
It's all half price.
But we only take card and contactless.
All right, just for you to be aware, we don't take cash.
We do it for staff safety.
Well, no, I can understand that.
Yeah, there's too many weirdos about now, importantly.
And it stops them from coming in.
They don't come in, you know, because we don't take cash anymore.
They're not in here.
No, that makes sense.
Yeah, but we had some hanging around at the end of the day and, you know, wouldn't go and things.
No, that's the last thing you want.
No, and sometimes the mothers come in and they got their little hands with them.
Oh, yeah, the hands are over everything then.
Yeah, it's quite easy for them to pick up stuff and just walk out.
Well, not so much that because that happens is you don't get the weirdos in.
No, you're right.
Yeah, like things are lovely, aren't they?
No, they are.
I'm looking for stuff.
I love the red and what have you.
They're beautiful.
So that'll be 350 for the two.
Do you need a bag?
No, thank you.
I'm fine.
They're lovely and nice.
No, they are.
So nice.
It looks so drab after Christmas, doesn't it?
I know.
When you put a thing back and then we get...
I left my ornaments.
I had a load of like animal Christmas ornaments.
I just left them up.
I don't blame you.
I love Christmas though.
No, it's a special time of year and sadly I won't be seeing my son because he lives away and they're going away for Christmas.
Where are they going?
Spain.
We ran away last year for the first time.
It's the only time.
My son is 24.
He got everything.
I got everything.
It's not worth spending the money.
So we might as well just spend it on experience.
And I don't know whether it's really busy abroad because I've never gone Christmas time.
No, it's just nice.
Instead of having all the headache of getting the food on the table Yeah, it was nice and then you could go in the pool and stuff like that.
And we went to Egypt so we went on a stargazing excursion with the big telescopes and they took you out into the desert.
It was lovely and we had a big tepee fat on the floor.
My niece has just done that in Dubai.
Oh, it was well worth it and it wasn't mega expensive to do that.
No, but it's one of those once in a lifetime experiences, isn't it?
Especially if your son's all grown and he's doing his own thing.
He's interested in it all and you know they had the big...
So we've seen Saturn and I can't think of something else.
We've seen the rings around Saturn because they had the big telescopes.
Wow.
It must have been amazing.
Yeah, it was a good excursion.
So you're staying at home this year?
No, no, we're going to Fort Ventura this year.
I can't remember where.
I just booked it.
Just enjoy being away.
It's nice to have a week off and just not do anything.
That's the difference between going abroad for a holiday is that you leave everything behind.
All right, you've still got the stresses and strains but you're away from it.
Yeah.
Can you have a complete break?
We enjoyed it.
I like Christmas.
I like a traditional Christmas.
Yes, of course.
But yeah, we needed a break.
No, especially if you're working flat out all the time.
Yeah, we do.
It means so much.
Yeah.
Oh, well, lovely to meet you.
And you.
Yeah, and let everybody know we're up here.
We'd be on half price till after Christmas because I got so much stock.
We're half pricing it all.
It all might suck, doesn't it?
Yeah, that's it.
And I don't want to say no.
No.
Because it's all good stuff.
So I got to keep it going.
Oh, that's right.
Keep it rotating, you know.
That's right.
Right, see you again.
Yeah, ta-da.
Lovely to meet you.
There you are.
Nice customer again, guys.
Happy with the purchases.
They were lovely, weren't they?
I got a bit of spare paper in here.
I'll get that out.
Got a little folder now.
I'm going through a folder.
Somebody's brought it in a folder, but all that work is in it, you know.
I left it here for a bit just in case somebody comes in and says, oh, my folder, my posture.
Just in case, but nobody's claimed it.
So I've taken it out now and been it.
There's a NVQ level tool or something.
That's got to do with that.
So I'll get rid of that, but there's no...
I'm reading some of the notes, isn't there, as well?
And then, otherwise, it's still a nice little folder, you know, for somebody from school or college or something.
Oh, yeah, I've got a couple of customers in here.
I have got a sign up that I know I need, so I do know where I'm alive when they come in.
But, yes, we need a hub now.
Need a hub for these people to come in and do the classes for us, because I've got a couple of people now that can do them.
Oh, sorry, I never met that.
And she could do, like, Zumba or Jumba, maybe.
I don't know, it was an exercise one.
Because I have no knees.
I have zero knees left.
Right, what's in these boxes now?
Earrings and brooches.
Checked.
Price.
Sent in some more stuff, by the look of it.
Keep on working, you guys.
Keep on going.
Keep on busy.
See you.
A lot of OAPs, they appreciate the fact that we give them roles to do, because they've got nothing else to do.
So we get lots of...
There's always something.
Somebody can always do something.
I could have a little box, but I think it might be too little.
Oh, she's been up too.
Bop, bop, bop, bop.
Turn it back around now.
If you see anything online, mind to say it, because we are pricing and putting stuff back in boxes and putting them away.
Right.
Oh, these are nice.
Look at them.
350.
They'd be half price, guys.
Clip-ons.
We don't get a lot of clip-ons.
They're beautiful.
Ooh, what should we do if you've got some nice stuff here?
They've cleaned it all up.
See, it's all sparkles.
There we are, little pearls.
Another set.
Oh, look at these.
They're lovely, aren't they, guys?
Does they be £1.75?
And then she's got some brooches.
And then if they're missing a stone, my dad will try and get it back in.
Look at that one.
Jane's Sustainable Accessories.
You are.
We got a vintage red noseday.
09.
Can you see it?
My little pin.
That looks like a vintage breast cancer one, doesn't it?
Lovely one.
Oh, that's pretty.
Sparkly.
All right, a bit of a music theme going on, yeah?
What's that, a French horn?
Oh, this is nice.
It's like a bit like the Cardiff Bluebird sign, isn't there?
It is a bluebird, but it could be Cardiff Bluebird.
Could wear that on your hat or something.
She's got a little bowie one.
Keeps them busy.
See, guys, see, they've cleaned it and then they've cable tied the ring on.
It's like a plastic-y one.
It's like Dawn, look.
Dawn said, was there clip-ons?
Dawn, we don't get a lot of clip-ons, so we've done well with these.
Dawn said, she said to me, I thought I...
Oh, these are nice.
She thought I was done.
I was done in for.
That was it.
There was nothing left for me to do.
I know she's our book manager.
She sells a lot of books when she's in store, too.
She's very...
Because she knows the authors, see, and she talks about the authors and then another plastic ring, fashion ring.
And like I said before, I haven't always got time to talk to people.
It's nice to talk to people, but I haven't always got the time to do it.
These are nice.
Proper glamorous, these, isn't it?
Whoever donated these.
Lovely.
Could always just sew them on as embellishments, too, see, on a dress or something, couldn't they?
Need some more jewellery stands now, like Claire's.
They're nice.
Look at them.
I'm sure these have come off.
Sammy might remember.
Remember we had a lady and she had a load of stuff because she used to go on cruises and they give us tons of stuff and she had loads of posh outfits.
Beautiful stuff we had, I bet.
I bet that's where they've come from.
I think they're pierced.
If you like anything, guys, you want it, just message me.
I'm going to pay in advance for that and keep it till the end of the day.
However, I would recommend you pay in advance and just pick it up then.
I think that's elephants.
Probably an L or an M then, if it's fitting me.
That one you could adjust.
Almost in the middle of the thing then.
That's nice with the stars in there.
Yeah, I need some more jewellery stands to launch our sustainable accessory brand.
My mother could be doing this, couldn't she?
My poor father went to have his urine check-up and they've given him kids' urine aids.
He's had kids' urine aids for about eight years.
I wonder if he's had trouble urinating.
Now he's got adult urine aids and now he's like, Josh, Josh, you're all too loud.
And we're like, we're not.
But he hasn't been able to urinate properly and he's had urine aids and we've been like, you know, put your urine aids in.
He's like, no, they don't work.
They don't work.
And for about, it's got to be five years, he's had child's pay.
There's some child out there where my father's urinating.
I don't know.
I'm grateful for the NHS, like, you know, but...
I think they should be grateful for us too, as well, sometimes, with some of the stories we hear.
Oh, look at that.
Star and moon.
Celestial 90s pattern.
That's nice, isn't it?
It's lovely.
My mother'd be good in the shop because she could sell sand to a builder's merchant, right?
Honestly, my mother is a good seller, but she's, she hasn't got the confidence to be in the shop since Covid.
She lost all her confidence, you know, she won't go out anywhere, unless it's like to the hospital.
Oh, so you're facing them, that's good.
Oh, and these are nice.
Trouble is I haven't got enough stands and hooks to put them on now, so you can't see them, they're all in a box.
And some more like the tourney stands, like we've got.
What is happening with Claire's now?
Are they gone or have they been saved?
Because I went in to ask them and they said, oh no, we're not going now.
But I didn't want to upset them and ask too much, because it's not very nice.
You know, if you're going about to lose your job or whatever, they're lovely in there.
So pretty.
Good condition, these and then.
A bit of the glue on there.
See, and this is where the fundraising goes.
We buy, they buy the cards and they have the glue and the glue gun.
And sometimes we get glue, glue bits come in and sometimes we get cards come in and that gets ring fence.
And you know, all of this, these little bits cost money and my parents give up their time to do it.
Plus they have the sanitizer.
Oh, they're nice.
I like them.
Nice gallery on them to let the light in.
They're lovely, they are.
So, you know, all these, it doesn't cost as much to do this and we get the return anyway with the jewelry.
But, you know, not everything we get is free.
We have to pay for stuff.
We have to pay for the electric, you know.
Don't pay for a lot of the food and the stuff.
We get it dirt cheap or it gets gifted to us.
Like the two glass cabinets we had last night gifted to us, you know.
Got loads, I got a bag full.
Oh no, I think she's done some CDs.
She's been busy.
Oh, look at them.
Oh, they're nice, aren't they?
Thing is, you could put it on, either clip it onto a tie or you, because it's a clip-on, or you could sew it onto a dress or sew it on, if you're getting married, sew some of these onto a dress, spark up your dress or onto a, one of those sash things I just had.
Because the belts for those dresses are mega expensive.
Look at them.
So lovely in there, guys.
If you wanted to give a sustainable Christmas present, now is the time, I think, to start saying to people, I'm only doing sustainable Christmas presents.
Like it all in a bit.
Now is the time.
Oh, look at those.
They just keep getting better, guys.
And they've cleaned all of those that have gone through it.
Cotton buds, sanitizer, and then mounted them on the cards.
Oh, you wait to see these.
It's like Morganite.
£1.75, we'd put £3.50 on them.
And then obviously we're on half price, so they'd be £1.75.
Jewelry is a good seller.
These are all in Caerphilly shop at the moment.
So we've got another plastic fashion ring.
Because we've got a lot of jewelry to suit a lot of different people as well.
Oh, this is nice.
Somebody will like this.
It's a bit bigger than an L and an M.
Like QVC are in here today.
Might fit.
Yes, it fits on my thumb.
Make a nice thumb ring, wouldn't it?
The clamp it's been arrested yet.
They told the police I beat them to with an inch of their lives with an health and safety sign.
That's what my CCTV shows.
Let's take a look at the flower.
Don't want to push it right down because they've cable tied it up.
But of course, you know, again, the fundraiser would I mean, they're not very expensive.
These mini cable ties, you know, but it just secures the ring on there.
Don't know.
Oh, it's another nice one.
I think I know I won't fit on my thumb.
I even like big massive sparkly things.
Oh, I like delicate things.
Sometimes we have a delicate day.
I love jewelry, but I never get a chance to wait.
Oh, this doesn't look like this looks like it should be on a scarf or something.
All right.
But they've put it on there.
So it's like a V.
So you could use it for a scarf or you could sew it on something or use it as a bag charm.
Something like that.
Or on your key rings.
You could put it on your key ring, couldn't you?
It's a big, it's a V.
Could be an A.
You could get away with an A, but I think it's a V.
Oh, that's a nice one.
Like an old kid.
It's a brooch.
They're heavy.
Clip arms.
Lovely.
I think these are cufflinks.
Cufflinks they are.
They still go now and again.
Cufflinks pierced ones.
Oh, it's a nice string.
Oh, I think he's missing some stones.
I'm going to put him back in the box, guys.
He's missing a stone or two.
Sometimes in transit they come out.
Sometimes my dad will stick them and a little plastic one.
It will definitely come to us if you're looking to buy jewellery.
And all our shops carry the jewellery.
Now with the CDs, they clean the CDs.
They put it in a CD cleaner.
Right, so they clean them all and then put them in.
Now they do listen to some of them as well to see if they're okay.
But all our CDs are guaranteed.
Because we were getting them nicked from Blackwood Shop and they were leaving the cases.
So my mother seals them all in.
So I'll show you the CDs now.
She cleans them all.
So that one there now, Tom Jones, right?
He'd be £2.50.
She's sealed him in there and they've put it through a CD cleaner.
Any problems with the music.
Vintage music, CDs, one of our top sellers.
We get minimum £2.50, £1.75, right?
We do really well on CDs.
So if we've got any CDs, guys, bring them in.
Tapes, VHS, VHS are one of our top sellers.
I don't know.
I don't know if she's put a price on these.
Oh, I'd probably put 10 on the set and it'd be five then.
It's lovely in there.
Probably peachy pink.
Should we even put the accessories now?
We've started doing the accessories.
That's where I need the jewellery stands now.
She's gone through that.
She's wiped it all over with a sanitizer wipe just in case somebody's had it on their head as well.
Lovely, isn't it?
Grand reveal.
Oh, it's similar.
Oh, similar, but different.
Completely different.
That's a nicer one, isn't it?
So that would be five.
These would be five kind of sets in the boxes, guys, today.
That's our bigger box here.
Oh, it's got a chunkier chain.
We still do it for five, I guess.
You know, because it's only fashion, don't we?
Oh, somebody's having a sort out.
Yes, please, Sophie.
Somebody just messaged me.
Yes, please.
I am not...
I can't...
I can't check your message a minute.
Oh, but I've just seen part of it.
So yes, please, Sophie.
Oh, they sound like greens.
Got like a rope chain.
Greens and a bit bluey as well, I think.
Okay, we were blue with that.
Bootsy foot.
These are all donated, guys, by the public.
Don't listen to the website and whatever.
Look at the donations we're getting off, people.
You've seen now, people have messaged me.
You've seen a guy this morning when I...
I've had the pleasure this morning bringing me a donation.
You know, social services next door.
Interrupted me to give me donations.
Don't listen to them online, guys, right?
They're jealous because they know how popular we are.
Look at the beautiful stuff we've got coming in 24-7.
Where's all this stuff like this?
All these other groups and all these charges.
Where's all this stuff like this?
You don't see it.
It's scurried away, doesn't it, guys?
Well, I'll just put this charm back on if anybody's there.
Have a look, see if this is like a Pandora one or just like a cheaper version or something.
It looks like a pair of dough and like a cubic zirconia at the top.
I think there's one in the top.
I don't know whether it's my eyesight.
Have a look, guys.
Is it Pandora?
It's got mum on it.
Or is it just a bog standard?
How would I know?
Oh, she does this with her big necklaces and then I mess them up.
I have to send them back and have a round because I can't appear.
This string was donated.
It was a bit rough that she uses it.
I have to keep these together.
Oh, look, a little knitted poppy.
It's a brooch.
Again, that would be £1.75.
I'm going to go to the...
I'm going to go to the space in the box now.
There's not much more jewelry, I don't think.
Oh, that's nice, isn't there?
That's lovely.
Again, that would be £1.75.
Look at that.
Ready for our sparkle appeal because our sparkle appeal is bring in all your sparkly stuff for Christmas.
Shoes, bags, everything.
Anything you don't want because then if a mother is struggling for a Christmas party and can't afford an outfit because we know what the bitchy girls are like.
She wore that last year.
Yeah, we're not like that year.
We loan them out an outfit.
All they've got to do is bring it back.
We did about...
I want to say 12, but I'd have to check the figures because I know I'm being monitored by specialist people to get everything right.
I want to say 12 mothers we helped last year with outfits and then they brought them back and everyone was returned.
Shoes, bags, and some of our mothers got two jobs.
So they have to go to two Christmas parties, you know, and they, you know, because sometimes your employer pays for the Christmas party.
So you really got to turn up, I mean, turn up and look half decent.
Is that missing bits or is it a different colour?
I don't know if it's a different colour or is it missing a few diamantes?
This one looks quite old fashioned.
So I think it's missing a couple.
So I'd probably send that one back, but it's... this is nice.
Something like this I would have.
Just like little delicates and drop, drop leaf, a droplet, droplet type thing.
But I think it's missing one or two.
I can't see.
I'm getting old now.
My eyesight's dreadful.
Oh, we've got some nice ones here.
Oh, is that bigger one?
I think she put the bigger one up there.
I'll show her.
It's like a big owl.
She put him up there because she said it was much bigger than everything else we've ever had.
So a choker.
Lovely, like an 80s choker.
That's nice, isn't it?
I can't believe they're still stalking me on Facebook.
I can't make anything better to do.
I tie them all up so you don't mess them up.
And then we have a demonstration.
And this is how you have to untangle them.
They always tangle for me.
Right, got this one off.
This is nice.
This is so pretty.
You could wear that on your hair if you were getting married.
Or a prom, or a necklace, couldn't you?
Like, what's the one?
She's got one on her head.
The princess with the dog.
Never ending story.
It's a bit like that with our website.
Never ending story.
Get a life Sherlock.
Oh, my viewers went down when I started singing then.
Sorry, guys.
Yes, but you could wear that on your head, couldn't you?
Or, again, sew it onto a dress.
That's beautiful, that one.
This is nice, like a Celtic-y one.
On a rope.
Oh, I've got another one of these chokers.
This one feels heavier than that one.
This one's mega heavy.
Really heavy, that one.
Looks brand new.
Some of these look brand new.
Oh, this is the one she's put up dearer.
She didn't know what to put on this one.
She's left him out for me to do.
It's a long chain, but it's a massive owl.
He's huge, like he's massive.
So she didn't put 350 on him.
So we'd probably put him at 10 and he'd probably go for 5.
He's quite big.
You could have him as a bag charm or a necklace.
Or you could attach it to a belt and have it dangling off your jeans.
That'd be nice.
It is big.
I don't think we've ever had a necklace that big.
That one looks a bit damaged.
They get a bit damaged in the box.
Oh, I think there's one left.
One left and then the rest.
Oh, we've got a Hollywood boulevard.
Disney key ring.
And then a chunky bracelet.
And I think the rest are just CDs.
Yeah, the rest are CDs.
Hey, guys.
So what have we got for dinner today?
I think we're having spag ball tonight.
We had that lovely cheese that we had from the church.
But I can't find that particular cheese.
So I've.
Just a very similar one to have it delivered.
We're going to have spag ball.
Our mince was three pound odd.
Because I was expecting to pay a fortune for mince because people have been putting their pictures on of the prices they're paying on the mince.
But I still had mince for about four pound five hundred grams.
Just under.
I don't know what quality is.
I didn't have a look.
But I think there was one cheaper, but I didn't have that one.
I think I was like the Morrison Smart price or whatever it is.
And I've got pasta there and.
They had to get sauce.
I didn't have any of the tomato sauces, you know, the jars.
And what else did I get?
I got the cheese and then I got some nibbly snacks.
Because I'm one of these people you see come midnight.
Like full charcuterie board, full charcuterie board, two meters long, you know, plus a fondue.
I'm like, what can I eat now at 12 o'clock at night?
I always eat late.
Like I haven't had anything to eat today other than bits of sugar from the sugar bag.
Keep me going.
But now I start feeling hungry.
So I don't know what the time is.
Oh, yeah, about one.
And I think I got bread, bread, with bread and knocking my table.
So you can hear the word.
It looks like wood.
And I think I got butter and jam.
Real butter.
So I don't know if we've got a toast drink, if any.
I'll have to have a look.
If not, I'll just have bread and butter.
And jam on it.
But I ordered some like crackers and some cheese and then some dippy things to go with it.
Just bits.
I haven't done a shop for the house for ages because we literally live on as much gone off stuff as we can because I don't check it out.
So this is the first time I've done a shop in ages for the house.
But prices have definitely gone up, haven't they?
I was going to get a pile of stuff for stew, then we add the spag.
We're going to have the spag ball.
So I try and split that over two nights.
Cook it all up, but split it over two nights.
And then that'll take us like Thursday, Friday.
And then we'll probably be in the shops on the weekend.
So it might be takeaway, might get a takeaway.
But I don't have a big takeaway now because if I have a takeaway, it'll last me two to three nights anyway because I can't eat it all in one go.
So I've been having chicken balls and sweet and sour sauce.
Dan usually gets cheesy chips and he might get chicken balls as well.
But last time they gave us prune crackers.
So my one takeaway meal was prune crackers and sweet and sour sauce.
And I just ate that in two sittings.
So that I had one sitting in a couple of hours later and some more.
And then I had the chicken balls in two sittings the following day.
So it lasts, it lasts me a while because I sort of eat now.
I'm like small but often sort of thing.
But I was going to get like stuff for stew.
And I, but I think I got lettuces in there because the church had a pile of lettuce.
I don't know if it was food waste.
They said in there.
So I can either give those to the rabbits and the guinea pigs or they'll probably have half of them anyway.
But I think I got a couple of tomatoes there.
One tomato and a couple of lettuce.
I don't mind a bit of salad like that.
I'll do.
It's not brilliant.
But I was going to do a stew.
But then I thought I'll have to buy beef on top then.
Beef or lamb in there.
Dig out the slow cooker.
Because I've been watching all your slow cookers.
Pictures you've been putting on.
And look, lovely.
One girl put cheese on top of her slow cooker or on top of her stew.
When the rest of us think of that.
Cheese on your stew.
So yeah, Dan will do the cooking.
He's a good cook.
He's good with his seasoning and stuff.
Right, so I'm going to go and do some toast now.
And what have you, I think.
Very few people back and forth today.
A few little sales.
I think he's doing...
He done well yesterday in Pontypool.
Some big sales went.
So thank you for that, everybody.
Some big items went as well.
So it's always nice when something big goes.
So I got to deal with this.
Empty the rest of this bag.
Price them up.
So I'll have a bit of toast and come back to you guys.
Don't forget you need to participate to be in it guys.
I'm doing my mother's put together like sashes and ribbons.
She's got them all bundled together.
So I'm just pricing them and put them in a little box.
Right, listen now.
I've got a lady in Caerphilly that's willing to teach card making for the mothers, right, craft class.
And I've also got another lady's willing to teach crochet.
I might have one Pontipool way that's willing to do artwork.
Okay, so far.
So now I need a hub so we can start doing these craft classes for mothers.
They're not for kids.
Look at the kids.
It's time the mothers had a bit of space and enjoyed it.
They'll be free.
A lot of the stuff is donated anyway.
So, you know, so totally free for mothers to come and put these little bags and stuff for us guys and tubs and let me show you whatever tub I got.
Right, so I need a hub other than if we haven't got a hub, you'll have to do it in one of the shops.
But we I need at least like well two to three to start off with until they get comfortable with bigger groups, okay?
Well, you only get two to three in a blooming crafter in there, won't you?
Let's be fair.
Now keep, you know, like when you have the popcorn tubs and the flumpy ones.
Ideal for our blocks and stuff.
All right, so keep them for me guys.
Any little tubs like that or smaller.
Anything, because we can chuck a couple of the blocks and bricks in there or whatever and then go from there, see?
So we've got a couple of ladies now willing to do teaching.
So I mean crocheting is a lovely one, isn't it?
That'd be lovely.
She came in looking for buttons.
I was like, ah, hang on.
Let me have a look at this bag because my mother put some stuff in there.
Like did I notice there was like haberdashery in there?
So...
This is what you call haberdashery.
Bits of material like this and you know, remember when Sherlock said, oh you don't stock haberdashery?
Like hello, we're one of the biggest stockers of haberdashery in Wales.
Thank you very much, sustainable haberdashery.
Parking attendants on Pentriban Street.
Now two of them looking active.
Parking man, tell everybody quickly, quickly, quickly.
They've just walked up by there.
This is what you call haberdashery.
Now, it's usually stored in Pontypool shops.
So...
I don't know where to take these over to Pontypool.
However, they'll do a little stint here first.
It might be that we have to bring the haberdashery around the shops now.
Look, see like she's got, she's got a little...
My mum's come across these, look.
So she's gone well.
We won't bin them.
Now most people would bin them.
I won't because I might get a dressing gown in that hasn't got one.
A sash or a ribbon, right?
That's a lovely one with the little beads on in there.
We might get a dressing that I haven't got it on and we can put it with it.
Or somebody might come in and say, oh, I'm looking for a little bit of ribbon.
I said, oh, hang on.
We got a ribbon box somewhere.
All recycling in it, guys.
So, you know, we recycle a lot.
A lot of people are like, oh...
It's not just baby stuff, you know.
Our title limits us a bit, doesn't it?
You know, baby bank.
Because a lot of people think it's just baby stuff.
Even now, people still think it's just baby stuff.
And it's not.
We recycle a lot of stuff.
So that's good.
And then we're looking for a sponsor to sponsor a shipping container because we've got no room for stuff in the shop.
But we could be helping out the teams that go to Uganda quite a bit.
But I'm wondering if there's somebody out there that will help us sponsor it.
And then...
Because there's only, like, I've got to abide by the CE laws and the trading standard laws of this country.
As a retailer, even if you were just giving them out for free, you've still got to apply.
It's like, I tell you, a good example of this is the P. Louise pajama debacle that's going on at the moment.
She's selling 100% cotton pajamas.
And they're not 100% cotton pajamas.
They're viscose, 95% viscose.
But they are highly flammable and she hasn't got the right fire labels in them.
And they're 50 quid.
But the other thing is that all nightwear, all children's wear up to a year, all fancy dress, have to have specific fire labels in.
And if they are extra flammable, they have to have red writing in them.
Otherwise, you have to put a scissors through the outfit and destroy.
I couldn't even use it as fabric, so I couldn't even put it in my haberdashery section.
Has to be destroyed and disposed of, or sent into trading standards to do.
So just for you to be aware with that, okay?
But there are things like that, that I wouldn't be able to use in this country.
But other countries could take them.
You know, other countries will take car seats because they have no...
You know, when it's here, they have to be within so many months, I think.
You know, and whatnot.
Like, the police brought us one this morning, didn't they?
They probably had to go and check it, I expect, because they probably said, oh god, somebody left their baby.
But it looks brand new.
I can't see why somebody would leave that on the side of the road like that.
Either somebody's put it down and forgotten about it.
I can't see them just dumping it on the side of a road.
I'm sure they would have left that outside of a charity shop or something.
I know a lot of places won't touch car seats.
I think it's going through to a debate at the moment in here whether we can sell them or not in this country.
This is why I've thought about the Uganda appeal again.
Because I've had somebody buy in, buy a job, a lot of trainers for Uganda.
So I'd give them a deal.
Should have been 20 pounds.
But we get them for 10.
You know, he's a good customer.
He's been back and forth.
He's been over at Pontypool as well as Caerphilly.
And they're going for a good cause, aren't they?
So he probably had about 40 pairs for a tenner.
So that's good, isn't it?
And we got 10 pounds from him, you know.
So we're happy enough.
But obviously they're looking into other stuff now.
What can and can't be sold in the UK again.
So if they say, absolutely no way can you sell any car seat.
Then, or you can't sell any of this pram, or you can't sell any of this material, or you can't sell...
You know, they will still take them in other countries, which prevents them going to landfill.
And we know a family that take them in.
We've met them, you know, they actually drive the van into Uganda.
OK, she goes over there for a couple of months, Margaret, do.
I'd love to go over there as well.
At the moment, we're not looking for anybody to finance the trip because the trip is still going anyway.
And it's financed by the villages and communities in this country.
We're looking for somebody to finance the storage of the stuff because these car seats are big, bulky things, right?
And they all come with these fitting bits now as well.
You can't even lift them.
So they're difficult to store, you know.
So they, you know, I can't just have them sat around the shops because they're a nightmare.
And then if trading standards come in and they're like, oh, is this car seat for sale?
And I'm like, no, I could fill this shop in a year with car seats, right?
But then I've got a shop sat here doing nothing overnight with car seats I can't use in this country or bottles.
For example, social services came in the other day and brought those bottles in and they said nobody else will take them.
No other baby bank would take them.
And they're like mam bottles, you know.
They're like, you know, bottles that are good and they were good condition.
But sometimes they're not.
And sometimes we get millions in and they're just not selling.
So we could put them in the container ready to go to Uganda, couldn't we?
So that's the plan with that, anyway.
But we'd like a company to sponsor us because the thing is, you know, it would probably be like 150 to 200 pound a month for a shipping container to put all these things in.
And we'll pack it in like Jenga, you know.
You see how much we get in our shops.
You can imagine what we could get in a sealed shipping container.
But I see if I've got to spare 250 pound and I can't justify that because I need to put it into the nappies or into the food banks or get half of another shop to be doing something useful and recycling like this.
So we're looking for a company to sponsor us.
Members of the public, you know, whatever's left over or if we get more, then we do two shipping containers or, you know, if we double the sponsor, we get two shipping containers or we help fund the trip to go over.
Because I always thought the, you know, cash for clothes and all of those.
I'm sure it's my cash for clothes to give us so much stuff because I always thought that they gave the clothes to Africa and places like that and third world countries, but they don't, they sell them.
And if they can't afford them, they end up in Africa's landfill.
If they can't sell them over there.
That's why I put the video on the other day because I found the video again.
So that's our plan.
But we need financial input with it for the shipping container.
You'll get receipts.
You'll have receipts for it.
This is, you know, there's, you know, I mean, the police turned up, you know, this week we've had social services turn up with donations and we've had the police turn up with a car seat this morning, you know, so you can have access to the shipping container and you,
you know, you can go in there and you can see how we're doing and you can have progress reports yourself and come over, fill it and stack it if you like.
I really know that bothered like, you know, but it'll be publicity for your company as well, helping others abroad.
And we also have backup families that we know ship to Uganda and places in Mumbai and places like that.
On standby, once I, I'm preempting, it'll take, well, it'd probably take less than 12 months to fill a shipping container with us.
But I'm preempting say a year before they go because they're due to go, you see.
So while we could help them fill this truck, if we're going to go into the new year and store, store items, we're going to need a shipping container separate to what we do to put it in.
Um, you know, but they, they struggle because they, they haven't got like cot mat, well they haven't got cot, so they, you know, they really, really struggle with these items guys.
So if we can help other mothers elsewhere, we can do it.
But like I said, we will need help financially with a shipping container.
Um, so there's an opportunity there for sponsorship.
Uh, and you can be involved as much or as little as you like.
You, you don't have to be, you can be anonymous.
You can be, and then obviously I'm going to start promoting the, um, our industrial washing machine GoFundMe that I got up as well because we could do with more washing machines.
We could do a two-week shop, if I'm honest.
We really could, uh, to save, keep saving stuff, especially this time of the year when stuff gets dumped everywhere.
You know, I got a now that needs all the covers off it need bigger drums.
We do bigger drums and they're very good.
The industrial ones, like the Dyson ones are very good cleaners that the little one that we got over Pontypool.
I mean, he's, he's been working for years, but, um, he had me off since we've had him, but we could do with more,
um, do with bigger, better industrial ones is what we need.
And I could do with two per shop because I had, I had a bag of washing from, well, one in whisker perhaps, but I had a bag of washing every day.
We've got a bag of washing.
I got a bag of washing out there now and trainers to wash and the trainers come up lovely, which means we can get more fundraising from.
So like I got a pair of Nike Jordans, I think now out there or whatever they're called white, but they're going to go in the wash, you know, and they'll come out lovely.
They will in the wash, but a GIF, but a GIF and stick them in the wash SIF now it's called an S, showing my age here, a GIF, you know, old draw, you can remember an oblong being called a rectangle.
What's that oblong?
Remember SIF and Marathon, remember Marathon bars?
What else?
What else?
Can you remember getting a pen and having to wind up your tape because it had all spilled out inside your machine, your Walkman, and you had to wind your tape back up, your music tape, or waiting on the radio to record the songs that you wanted on the radio.
Kids got no fun today, have they?
No fun, they just video themselves fighting now, don't they?
We used to have loads of fun, didn't we?
Go and build a camp, go down the river.
Loads of fun.
Set fire to something?
Set fire to something?
Save your friends from falling off a cliff?
We used to have loads of fun, didn't we?
Kids don't know them.
Well, they haven't got a clue today, have they?
I mean, yeah, we had like games like Frogger.
Remember Frogger and the other games we used to have on the computer?
Trying to get a frog before it died on the end of the screen.
One of the ones.
There was one on the Dragon 32 and it was called Kaleidoscope.
We just sit there and watch all the pixels moving around.
But they haven't got a clue today, have they kids?
I wouldn't want to be a kid today.
It looks so boring.
They're all Instagram and, you know, they've got this makeup for the kids and they're too young in there.
You know, they're buying like this drunk elephant and this Peel-A-Wee stuff in there.
You know, they're like five and six in there.
You know, they should still be playing.
Like, like the water bombs.
I had the water bomb thing yesterday and it had age eight, age eight on it.
What eight year old today is going to be wanting to play with water bombs?
Lucky if they're not carrying bloody knives.
It's like the, the Nerf guns.
We're getting tons of Nerf guns in, right?
And I think it's because they put the age up to like 14.
It's like what 14 year old would want a Nerf gun?
You know, stupidity in there.
But there we are.
There we are.
We're still, we're still taking the Nerf guns at the moment.
I haven't had anybody object to me taking guns and selling plastic guns as of yet.
But if what we've decided is plastic knives and obviously if we get any like paring knives in or fruit knives, like we've had remember there, like sometimes you get like fishing knives in, then you'd have to be, well, I think we said 25.
I don't know if it's 21 or 25.
I can't remember, but I, they got to be 25 an ID.
That's what I said to the boys.
And what happened with that was his father come with him and he said, Oh, you've been after this knife.
He said, so am I okay to buy it?
I said, well, that's up to you.
As long as you're buying it and you got your ID.
You know, you're not an axe murderer.
You can have it.
Okay.
I've also got a little update about the, remember the issue in Risca library and the police asked me to take it down because he was vulnerable.
Social services have contacted me as well.
And I've explained to him that it was me actually confessed doing it too.
Not, he didn't, didn't rape me, but he confessed raping a 10 year old girl to me.
Yeah.
I'm the one that made the police complaint contacted the staff and everybody else.
So don't tell me no complaints have been made about him because I know they have.
Anyway, anyway, what they said in the end was they are having trouble locating a victim.
Yeah, whatever.
You described it in full detail.
Anyway, anyway, social services are fully aware of what happened and they're fully aware that he's still gravitating around toilets in public spaces, like libraries and warm hubs.
So they are going to just address that from their point of view as well.
But there's no concern in us being involved in it in any way, shape or form.
We know because he confessed it to me and then he worked for another charity shop in the area and they contacted us and said he isn't allowed around babies and children.
And he is trying to volunteer with you.
And we feel that we need to tell you this because he volunteered in another charity shop, you see.
I can't say which one.
But when the pet one refused to take him on, he chucked all their clothes off the rails and threw them all on the floor from.
Because they said, no, no, we don't want to volunteer in here.
True, he went nuts and threw all their clothes off the rails because it's pretty annoying.
You've spent all day putting them up and then you've got a clown like that checking them on the floor.
But that's the update anyway, is they've asked me not to post the name, locations, things like that, because he could be at risk.
But social services are aware that I've made a concern about him gravitating around toilets again.
The thing is that the coffee and all were by the toilets, but I know him from old because he tried coming into Blackwood shops and he tried...
Oh yeah, all right, it's all half price, but we only take card and contactless.
So yeah, he tried coming into Blackwood shop and then wanted to use the toilet.
And we were like, no, you're banned.
That's what he likes to do.
I'll turn you around in a minute, guys, because we've got customers in.
Oh yeah, loads, always something to do, isn't it?
Always something to recycle, always something to do.
I'm sure it breeds overnight.
I got part of the stuff in my car.
I have no idea where this come from.
I know, I have no idea where the stuff in my car have come from.
No idea at all.
I think that's part of that.
I think it's a part of the bow for the dress.
Let's put it all in one.
Sorry, guys, I'll be off in a minute.
Oh, congratulations on you won the giveaway.
I get it sorted for you because it's still in the house.
It's not ready today.
I bought some sellotape from Old New Woolies.
Good sellotape.
I don't like the pound shop sellotape.
It's rubbish and breaks.
Right, so I've got a pile of ribbons and sashes here now.
Ink and filly shop, guys.
And then I've got a lady who wants buttons, but she's also a crocheter, so she's willing to do a crochet class.
So that's lovely.
Oh, we've got a nice bag.
What's that?
That's a...
Just check it because you never know what's in these things.
So this Tesco car.
I don't even know when this was donated because I pulled this at the back room.
False nail.
Someone put it in there to stick back on it.
Okay, that's a nice bag.
I'll show you the bag now.
It's got a nice handle, look.
Sparkly's on the front.
I don't know what brand it is, but I think it's like one of these bag shop brands, you know.
I don't think this is... it was probably expensive in a bag shop, but we won't put it up expensive.
Make sure the zip works.
Moda, it says, but I don't think this is mega expensive.
Oh, I'm still finding bits.
A kind of YSL lipstick.
And I'm not sure if that's a cheap one or a Lady Gaga, maybe.
Possibly a Lady Gaga one, lip gloss.
I can't remember.
Just put it in the free box.
This one is quite full.
I don't know whether it's a cheaper version of the Lady Gaga, House of... is it House of Gaga or House of something else?
I don't know.
Probably put it in the free box for a month.
It's up to somebody else then, if they want them in there.
If not, we'll just recycle them.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah, nice to see you guys.
Ta-ra.
Oh, we've got a little charm in there, look.
No, it says Mum.
I don't know if you can see it.
I'm trying to bring it in.
No, I'm still focusing.
There's a little charm in the bag, look.
Can you see it?
It's got like a peridot, I think, on it.
How would I know if that's like a Pandora one or a cheaper version, guys?
Any idea?
Well, good luck for me.
I'm not doing it justice at the moment, because it's got a little sparkly on the top there.
Excuse my nails, guys.
I'm not money laundering from our entity, so I can't afford to have my nails done.
I can do it myself.
I've got a machine.
I've got a... I'll try and do it myself with a UV thing.
I ain't got time to rush off to Turkey and have all this plastic surgery and teeth done like the rest of them.
Too bloody busy.
So it's a lovely little charm.
Looks like a Pandora one, but I don't know if it is a Pandora one.
Somebody have a look for me, guys, and let me know.
It's a lovely little one, though.
It's not really doing it justice on you.
I don't know how much the charms would be in Pandora if it would be one.
So I don't know.
A few walkers by today.
A few new customers.
We need plenty of customers in, guys, because we're getting tons in now.
I don't want to get to the point where I've got to refuse the stuff.
This is why you always check a bag, see?
Oh, 5p.
5p for the retirement fund.
Go in the box for the food bank.
Lots of bits in it.
Oh, I got chocolate or something.
Where's the white one?
We hope it's chocolate.
I think it is.
It's got a little bit of stuff on it, but you've got to check today because you don't know what's in a bag today.
And the last thing you want to do is give a bag out and it could have something dodgy in there, couldn't it?
Like a bag or something.
Daniel had bags left outside the shop.
Ponty pool today as well.
We're not opening risk of guys who've got sickness.
Unfortunately, it's just that time of year.
We're going to try and come in tomorrow, they said, and dose themselves up and come back in.
Where is my free box?
I had a free box, I told you, please.
Yeah, here we are.
So I put that in there.
That can go in there as well.
See, it's like, look, I've got that.
Look, it's half full and then that one's half full.
That one is half full.
I've got a few of them.
That's been sent to us by Kearex.
This is like three bucks.
And it comes in.
Send it in.
If in doubt, right, send it in.
Because worst case scenario, we're giving it out for free and the packaging will be recycled.
So like, there's only a bit in there.
Somebody might want it for free.
You can see.
That is all half price.
If a customer wants something, they can have something, can't they?
Right.
What next?
I have a bag, but it has a nasty mark.
Oh, it's a River Island.
Can we get it off, guys?
If we can get the nasty mark off, it should be a nice little bag.
It might come off.
The River Islands are quite good.
We usually get about 20 to 30 for a River Island, sometimes even 40, depending on what it's like.
Sorry, I know you can't see me.
I've got another customer in.
I'll try and put him up there.
I'll get his mark off, I am.
It's a nice one.
It's a bit sparkly.
Let's check inside.
So at least the problem from risk there is on the reader.
Yes, on the reader.
Back on the reader and make sure it's kept on it.
For 40, we'll probably get 20 for him, guys.
It's come off all right.
So River Island, we do really well with that.
Nothing in the River Island bag.
I probably can't afford to put anything in the River Island bag after you buy it.
Yeah, come on, guys.
We need customers in because we've got customers, but we need more people.
I need you to spread the word because I'm getting so much in.
I mean, that lad from next door gave us three pairs of shoes as I was turning up.
Yeah, when I don't, you know, three, one was, I think two were, two were nice, good too.
And one was steel, two caps, all good shoes, you know, I could have said I want to go in a room, but they're all good shoes, aren't they?
Oh no, where's the best pen?
I don't think the best pen is here, but what have I been using to write with?
The red one was down risk, wasn't it?
Got those cabinets in.
So where's the pen from here then?
Oh, we have a blue one here, look.
See, somebody gave me a pile of colored ones.
Posh, I'm just so well in the shop.
Hey, are you all right?
It's all half price.
But we only take card and contactless.
All right, just for you to be aware, we don't take cash.
We do it for staff safety.
Well, no, I can understand that.
Yeah, there's too many weirdos about now, importantly.
And it stops them from coming in.
They don't come in, you know, because we don't take cash anymore.
They're not in here.
No, that makes sense.
Yeah, but we had some hanging around at the end of the day and, you know, wouldn't go and things.
No, that's the last thing you want.
No, and sometimes the mothers come in and they got their little hands with them.
Oh, yeah, the hands are over everything then.
Yeah, it's quite easy for them to pick up stuff and just walk out.
Well, not so much that because that happens is you don't get the weirdos in.
No, you're right.
Yeah, like things are lovely, aren't they?
No, they are.
I'm looking for stuff.
I love the red and what have you.
They're beautiful.
So that'll be 350 for the two.
Do you need a bag?
No, thank you.
I'm fine.
They're lovely and nice.
No, they are.
So nice.
It looks so drab after Christmas, doesn't it?
I know.
When you put a thing back and then we get...
I left my ornaments.
I had a load of like animal Christmas ornaments.
I just left them up.
I don't blame you.
I love Christmas though.
No, it's a special time of year and sadly I won't be seeing my son because he lives away and they're going away for Christmas.
Where are they going?
Spain.
We ran away last year for the first time.
It's the only time.
My son is 24.
He got everything.
I got everything.
It's not worth spending the money.
So we might as well just spend it on experience.
And I don't know whether it's really busy abroad because I've never gone Christmas time.
No, it's just nice.
Instead of having all the headache of getting the food on the table Yeah, it was nice and then you could go in the pool and stuff like that.
And we went to Egypt so we went on a stargazing excursion with the big telescopes and they took you out into the desert.
It was lovely and we had a big tepee fat on the floor.
My niece has just done that in Dubai.
Oh, it was well worth it and it wasn't mega expensive to do that.
No, but it's one of those once in a lifetime experiences, isn't it?
Especially if your son's all grown and he's doing his own thing.
He's interested in it all and you know they had the big...
So we've seen Saturn and I can't think of something else.
We've seen the rings around Saturn because they had the big telescopes.
Wow.
It must have been amazing.
Yeah, it was a good excursion.
So you're staying at home this year?
No, no, we're going to Fort Ventura this year.
I can't remember where.
I just booked it.
Just enjoy being away.
It's nice to have a week off and just not do anything.
That's the difference between going abroad for a holiday is that you leave everything behind.
All right, you've still got the stresses and strains but you're away from it.
Yeah.
Can you have a complete break?
We enjoyed it.
I like Christmas.
I like a traditional Christmas.
Yes, of course.
But yeah, we needed a break.
No, especially if you're working flat out all the time.
Yeah, we do.
It means so much.
Yeah.
Oh, well, lovely to meet you.
And you.
Yeah, and let everybody know we're up here.
We'd be on half price till after Christmas because I got so much stock.
We're half pricing it all.
It all might suck, doesn't it?
Yeah, that's it.
And I don't want to say no.
No.
Because it's all good stuff.
So I got to keep it going.
Oh, that's right.
Keep it rotating, you know.
That's right.
Right, see you again.
Yeah, ta-da.
Lovely to meet you.
There you are.
Nice customer again, guys.
Happy with the purchases.
They were lovely, weren't they?
I got a bit of spare paper in here.
I'll get that out.
Got a little folder now.
I'm going through a folder.
Somebody's brought it in a folder, but all that work is in it, you know.
I left it here for a bit just in case somebody comes in and says, oh, my folder, my posture.
Just in case, but nobody's claimed it.
So I've taken it out now and been it.
There's a NVQ level tool or something.
That's got to do with that.
So I'll get rid of that, but there's no...
I'm reading some of the notes, isn't there, as well?
And then, otherwise, it's still a nice little folder, you know, for somebody from school or college or something.
Oh, yeah, I've got a couple of customers in here.
I have got a sign up that I know I need, so I do know where I'm alive when they come in.
But, yes, we need a hub now.
Need a hub for these people to come in and do the classes for us, because I've got a couple of people now that can do them.
Oh, sorry, I never met that.
And she could do, like, Zumba or Jumba, maybe.
I don't know, it was an exercise one.
Because I have no knees.
I have zero knees left.
Right, what's in these boxes now?
Earrings and brooches.
Checked.
Price.
Sent in some more stuff, by the look of it.
Keep on working, you guys.
Keep on going.
Keep on busy.
See you.
A lot of OAPs, they appreciate the fact that we give them roles to do, because they've got nothing else to do.
So we get lots of...
There's always something.
Somebody can always do something.
I could have a little box, but I think it might be too little.
Oh, she's been up too.
Bop, bop, bop, bop.
Turn it back around now.
If you see anything online, mind to say it, because we are pricing and putting stuff back in boxes and putting them away.
Right.
Oh, these are nice.
Look at them.
350.
They'd be half price, guys.
Clip-ons.
We don't get a lot of clip-ons.
They're beautiful.
Ooh, what should we do if you've got some nice stuff here?
They've cleaned it all up.
See, it's all sparkles.
There we are, little pearls.
Another set.
Oh, look at these.
They're lovely, aren't they, guys?
Does they be £1.75?
And then she's got some brooches.
And then if they're missing a stone, my dad will try and get it back in.
Look at that one.
Jane's Sustainable Accessories.
You are.
We got a vintage red noseday.
09.
Can you see it?
My little pin.
That looks like a vintage breast cancer one, doesn't it?
Lovely one.
Oh, that's pretty.
Sparkly.
All right, a bit of a music theme going on, yeah?
What's that, a French horn?
Oh, this is nice.
It's like a bit like the Cardiff Bluebird sign, isn't there?
It is a bluebird, but it could be Cardiff Bluebird.
Could wear that on your hat or something.
She's got a little bowie one.
Keeps them busy.
See, guys, see, they've cleaned it and then they've cable tied the ring on.
It's like a plastic-y one.
It's like Dawn, look.
Dawn said, was there clip-ons?
Dawn, we don't get a lot of clip-ons, so we've done well with these.
Dawn said, she said to me, I thought I...
Oh, these are nice.
She thought I was done.
I was done in for.
That was it.
There was nothing left for me to do.
I know she's our book manager.
She sells a lot of books when she's in store, too.
She's very...
Because she knows the authors, see, and she talks about the authors and then another plastic ring, fashion ring.
And like I said before, I haven't always got time to talk to people.
It's nice to talk to people, but I haven't always got the time to do it.
These are nice.
Proper glamorous, these, isn't it?
Whoever donated these.
Lovely.
Could always just sew them on as embellishments, too, see, on a dress or something, couldn't they?
Need some more jewellery stands now, like Claire's.
They're nice.
Look at them.
I'm sure these have come off.
Sammy might remember.
Remember we had a lady and she had a load of stuff because she used to go on cruises and they give us tons of stuff and she had loads of posh outfits.
Beautiful stuff we had, I bet.
I bet that's where they've come from.
I think they're pierced.
If you like anything, guys, you want it, just message me.
I'm going to pay in advance for that and keep it till the end of the day.
However, I would recommend you pay in advance and just pick it up then.
I think that's elephants.
Probably an L or an M then, if it's fitting me.
That one you could adjust.
Almost in the middle of the thing then.
That's nice with the stars in there.
Yeah, I need some more jewellery stands to launch our sustainable accessory brand.
My mother could be doing this, couldn't she?
My poor father went to have his urine check-up and they've given him kids' urine aids.
He's had kids' urine aids for about eight years.
I wonder if he's had trouble urinating.
Now he's got adult urine aids and now he's like, Josh, Josh, you're all too loud.
And we're like, we're not.
But he hasn't been able to urinate properly and he's had urine aids and we've been like, you know, put your urine aids in.
He's like, no, they don't work.
They don't work.
And for about, it's got to be five years, he's had child's pay.
There's some child out there where my father's urinating.
I don't know.
I'm grateful for the NHS, like, you know, but...
I think they should be grateful for us too, as well, sometimes, with some of the stories we hear.
Oh, look at that.
Star and moon.
Celestial 90s pattern.
That's nice, isn't it?
It's lovely.
My mother'd be good in the shop because she could sell sand to a builder's merchant, right?
Honestly, my mother is a good seller, but she's, she hasn't got the confidence to be in the shop since Covid.
She lost all her confidence, you know, she won't go out anywhere, unless it's like to the hospital.
Oh, so you're facing them, that's good.
Oh, and these are nice.
Trouble is I haven't got enough stands and hooks to put them on now, so you can't see them, they're all in a box.
And some more like the tourney stands, like we've got.
What is happening with Claire's now?
Are they gone or have they been saved?
Because I went in to ask them and they said, oh no, we're not going now.
But I didn't want to upset them and ask too much, because it's not very nice.
You know, if you're going about to lose your job or whatever, they're lovely in there.
So pretty.
Good condition, these and then.
A bit of the glue on there.
See, and this is where the fundraising goes.
We buy, they buy the cards and they have the glue and the glue gun.
And sometimes we get glue, glue bits come in and sometimes we get cards come in and that gets ring fence.
And you know, all of this, these little bits cost money and my parents give up their time to do it.
Plus they have the sanitizer.
Oh, they're nice.
I like them.
Nice gallery on them to let the light in.
They're lovely, they are.
So, you know, all these, it doesn't cost as much to do this and we get the return anyway with the jewelry.
But, you know, not everything we get is free.
We have to pay for stuff.
We have to pay for the electric, you know.
Don't pay for a lot of the food and the stuff.
We get it dirt cheap or it gets gifted to us.
Like the two glass cabinets we had last night gifted to us, you know.
Got loads, I got a bag full.
Oh no, I think she's done some CDs.
She's been busy.
Oh, look at them.
Oh, they're nice, aren't they?
Thing is, you could put it on, either clip it onto a tie or you, because it's a clip-on, or you could sew it onto a dress or sew it on, if you're getting married, sew some of these onto a dress, spark up your dress or onto a, one of those sash things I just had.
Because the belts for those dresses are mega expensive.
Look at them.
So lovely in there, guys.
If you wanted to give a sustainable Christmas present, now is the time, I think, to start saying to people, I'm only doing sustainable Christmas presents.
Like it all in a bit.
Now is the time.
Oh, look at those.
They just keep getting better, guys.
And they've cleaned all of those that have gone through it.
Cotton buds, sanitizer, and then mounted them on the cards.
Oh, you wait to see these.
It's like Morganite.
£1.75, we'd put £3.50 on them.
And then obviously we're on half price, so they'd be £1.75.
Jewelry is a good seller.
These are all in Caerphilly shop at the moment.
So we've got another plastic fashion ring.
Because we've got a lot of jewelry to suit a lot of different people as well.
Oh, this is nice.
Somebody will like this.
It's a bit bigger than an L and an M.
Like QVC are in here today.
Might fit.
Yes, it fits on my thumb.
Make a nice thumb ring, wouldn't it?
The clamp it's been arrested yet.
They told the police I beat them to with an inch of their lives with an health and safety sign.
That's what my CCTV shows.
Let's take a look at the flower.
Don't want to push it right down because they've cable tied it up.
But of course, you know, again, the fundraiser would I mean, they're not very expensive.
These mini cable ties, you know, but it just secures the ring on there.
Don't know.
Oh, it's another nice one.
I think I know I won't fit on my thumb.
I even like big massive sparkly things.
Oh, I like delicate things.
Sometimes we have a delicate day.
I love jewelry, but I never get a chance to wait.
Oh, this doesn't look like this looks like it should be on a scarf or something.
All right.
But they've put it on there.
So it's like a V.
So you could use it for a scarf or you could sew it on something or use it as a bag charm.
Something like that.
Or on your key rings.
You could put it on your key ring, couldn't you?
It's a big, it's a V.
Could be an A.
You could get away with an A, but I think it's a V.
Oh, that's a nice one.
Like an old kid.
It's a brooch.
They're heavy.
Clip arms.
Lovely.
I think these are cufflinks.
Cufflinks they are.
They still go now and again.
Cufflinks pierced ones.
Oh, it's a nice string.
Oh, I think he's missing some stones.
I'm going to put him back in the box, guys.
He's missing a stone or two.
Sometimes in transit they come out.
Sometimes my dad will stick them and a little plastic one.
It will definitely come to us if you're looking to buy jewellery.
And all our shops carry the jewellery.
Now with the CDs, they clean the CDs.
They put it in a CD cleaner.
Right, so they clean them all and then put them in.
Now they do listen to some of them as well to see if they're okay.
But all our CDs are guaranteed.
Because we were getting them nicked from Blackwood Shop and they were leaving the cases.
So my mother seals them all in.
So I'll show you the CDs now.
She cleans them all.
So that one there now, Tom Jones, right?
He'd be £2.50.
She's sealed him in there and they've put it through a CD cleaner.
Any problems with the music.
Vintage music, CDs, one of our top sellers.
We get minimum £2.50, £1.75, right?
We do really well on CDs.
So if we've got any CDs, guys, bring them in.
Tapes, VHS, VHS are one of our top sellers.
I don't know.
I don't know if she's put a price on these.
Oh, I'd probably put 10 on the set and it'd be five then.
It's lovely in there.
Probably peachy pink.
Should we even put the accessories now?
We've started doing the accessories.
That's where I need the jewellery stands now.
She's gone through that.
She's wiped it all over with a sanitizer wipe just in case somebody's had it on their head as well.
Lovely, isn't it?
Grand reveal.
Oh, it's similar.
Oh, similar, but different.
Completely different.
That's a nicer one, isn't it?
So that would be five.
These would be five kind of sets in the boxes, guys, today.
That's our bigger box here.
Oh, it's got a chunkier chain.
We still do it for five, I guess.
You know, because it's only fashion, don't we?
Oh, somebody's having a sort out.
Yes, please, Sophie.
Somebody just messaged me.
Yes, please.
I am not...
I can't...
I can't check your message a minute.
Oh, but I've just seen part of it.
So yes, please, Sophie.
Oh, they sound like greens.
Got like a rope chain.
Greens and a bit bluey as well, I think.
Okay, we were blue with that.
Bootsy foot.
These are all donated, guys, by the public.
Don't listen to the website and whatever.
Look at the donations we're getting off, people.
You've seen now, people have messaged me.
You've seen a guy this morning when I...
I've had the pleasure this morning bringing me a donation.
You know, social services next door.
Interrupted me to give me donations.
Don't listen to them online, guys, right?
They're jealous because they know how popular we are.
Look at the beautiful stuff we've got coming in 24-7.
Where's all this stuff like this?
All these other groups and all these charges.
Where's all this stuff like this?
You don't see it.
It's scurried away, doesn't it, guys?
Well, I'll just put this charm back on if anybody's there.
Have a look, see if this is like a Pandora one or just like a cheaper version or something.
It looks like a pair of dough and like a cubic zirconia at the top.
I think there's one in the top.
I don't know whether it's my eyesight.
Have a look, guys.
Is it Pandora?
It's got mum on it.
Or is it just a bog standard?
How would I know?
Oh, she does this with her big necklaces and then I mess them up.
I have to send them back and have a round because I can't appear.
This string was donated.
It was a bit rough that she uses it.
I have to keep these together.
Oh, look, a little knitted poppy.
It's a brooch.
Again, that would be £1.75.
I'm going to go to the...
I'm going to go to the space in the box now.
There's not much more jewelry, I don't think.
Oh, that's nice, isn't there?
That's lovely.
Again, that would be £1.75.
Look at that.
Ready for our sparkle appeal because our sparkle appeal is bring in all your sparkly stuff for Christmas.
Shoes, bags, everything.
Anything you don't want because then if a mother is struggling for a Christmas party and can't afford an outfit because we know what the bitchy girls are like.
She wore that last year.
Yeah, we're not like that year.
We loan them out an outfit.
All they've got to do is bring it back.
We did about...
I want to say 12, but I'd have to check the figures because I know I'm being monitored by specialist people to get everything right.
I want to say 12 mothers we helped last year with outfits and then they brought them back and everyone was returned.
Shoes, bags, and some of our mothers got two jobs.
So they have to go to two Christmas parties, you know, and they, you know, because sometimes your employer pays for the Christmas party.
So you really got to turn up, I mean, turn up and look half decent.
Is that missing bits or is it a different colour?
I don't know if it's a different colour or is it missing a few diamantes?
This one looks quite old fashioned.
So I think it's missing a couple.
So I'd probably send that one back, but it's... this is nice.
Something like this I would have.
Just like little delicates and drop, drop leaf, a droplet, droplet type thing.
But I think it's missing one or two.
I can't see.
I'm getting old now.
My eyesight's dreadful.
Oh, we've got some nice ones here.
Oh, is that bigger one?
I think she put the bigger one up there.
I'll show her.
It's like a big owl.
She put him up there because she said it was much bigger than everything else we've ever had.
So a choker.
Lovely, like an 80s choker.
That's nice, isn't it?
I can't believe they're still stalking me on Facebook.
I can't make anything better to do.
I tie them all up so you don't mess them up.
And then we have a demonstration.
And this is how you have to untangle them.
They always tangle for me.
Right, got this one off.
This is nice.
This is so pretty.
You could wear that on your hair if you were getting married.
Or a prom, or a necklace, couldn't you?
Like, what's the one?
She's got one on her head.
The princess with the dog.
Never ending story.
It's a bit like that with our website.
Never ending story.
Get a life Sherlock.
Oh, my viewers went down when I started singing then.
Sorry, guys.
Yes, but you could wear that on your head, couldn't you?
Or, again, sew it onto a dress.
That's beautiful, that one.
This is nice, like a Celtic-y one.
On a rope.
Oh, I've got another one of these chokers.
This one feels heavier than that one.
This one's mega heavy.
Really heavy, that one.
Looks brand new.
Some of these look brand new.
Oh, this is the one she's put up dearer.
She didn't know what to put on this one.
She's left him out for me to do.
It's a long chain, but it's a massive owl.
He's huge, like he's massive.
So she didn't put 350 on him.
So we'd probably put him at 10 and he'd probably go for 5.
He's quite big.
You could have him as a bag charm or a necklace.
Or you could attach it to a belt and have it dangling off your jeans.
That'd be nice.
It is big.
I don't think we've ever had a necklace that big.
That one looks a bit damaged.
They get a bit damaged in the box.
Oh, I think there's one left.
One left and then the rest.
Oh, we've got a Hollywood boulevard.
Disney key ring.
And then a chunky bracelet.
And I think the rest are just CDs.
Yeah, the rest are CDs.
Hey, guys.
So what have we got for dinner today?
I think we're having spag ball tonight.
We had that lovely cheese that we had from the church.
But I can't find that particular cheese.
So I've.
Just a very similar one to have it delivered.
We're going to have spag ball.
Our mince was three pound odd.
Because I was expecting to pay a fortune for mince because people have been putting their pictures on of the prices they're paying on the mince.
But I still had mince for about four pound five hundred grams.
Just under.
I don't know what quality is.
I didn't have a look.
But I think there was one cheaper, but I didn't have that one.
I think I was like the Morrison Smart price or whatever it is.
And I've got pasta there and.
They had to get sauce.
I didn't have any of the tomato sauces, you know, the jars.
And what else did I get?
I got the cheese and then I got some nibbly snacks.
Because I'm one of these people you see come midnight.
Like full charcuterie board, full charcuterie board, two meters long, you know, plus a fondue.
I'm like, what can I eat now at 12 o'clock at night?
I always eat late.
Like I haven't had anything to eat today other than bits of sugar from the sugar bag.
Keep me going.
But now I start feeling hungry.
So I don't know what the time is.
Oh, yeah, about one.
And I think I got bread, bread, with bread and knocking my table.
So you can hear the word.
It looks like wood.
And I think I got butter and jam.
Real butter.
So I don't know if we've got a toast drink, if any.
I'll have to have a look.
If not, I'll just have bread and butter.
And jam on it.
But I ordered some like crackers and some cheese and then some dippy things to go with it.
Just bits.
I haven't done a shop for the house for ages because we literally live on as much gone off stuff as we can because I don't check it out.
So this is the first time I've done a shop in ages for the house.
But prices have definitely gone up, haven't they?
I was going to get a pile of stuff for stew, then we add the spag.
We're going to have the spag ball.
So I try and split that over two nights.
Cook it all up, but split it over two nights.
And then that'll take us like Thursday, Friday.
And then we'll probably be in the shops on the weekend.
So it might be takeaway, might get a takeaway.
But I don't have a big takeaway now because if I have a takeaway, it'll last me two to three nights anyway because I can't eat it all in one go.
So I've been having chicken balls and sweet and sour sauce.
Dan usually gets cheesy chips and he might get chicken balls as well.
But last time they gave us prune crackers.
So my one takeaway meal was prune crackers and sweet and sour sauce.
And I just ate that in two sittings.
So that I had one sitting in a couple of hours later and some more.
And then I had the chicken balls in two sittings the following day.
So it lasts, it lasts me a while because I sort of eat now.
I'm like small but often sort of thing.
But I was going to get like stuff for stew.
And I, but I think I got lettuces in there because the church had a pile of lettuce.
I don't know if it was food waste.
They said in there.
So I can either give those to the rabbits and the guinea pigs or they'll probably have half of them anyway.
But I think I got a couple of tomatoes there.
One tomato and a couple of lettuce.
I don't mind a bit of salad like that.
I'll do.
It's not brilliant.
But I was going to do a stew.
But then I thought I'll have to buy beef on top then.
Beef or lamb in there.
Dig out the slow cooker.
Because I've been watching all your slow cookers.
Pictures you've been putting on.
And look, lovely.
One girl put cheese on top of her slow cooker or on top of her stew.
When the rest of us think of that.
Cheese on your stew.
So yeah, Dan will do the cooking.
He's a good cook.
He's good with his seasoning and stuff.
Right, so I'm going to go and do some toast now.
And what have you, I think.
Very few people back and forth today.
A few little sales.
I think he's doing...
He done well yesterday in Pontypool.
Some big sales went.
So thank you for that, everybody.
Some big items went as well.
So it's always nice when something big goes.
So I got to deal with this.
Empty the rest of this bag.
Price them up.
So I'll have a bit of toast and come back to you guys.