Oh, sounds silly, guys. As you can see, we're trying to fill every bit of space now with stuff, backfill it right up, and then you know where we are then with the stock levels. I could probably put another 10 boxes maximum in the back, storage, but here I'd rather them priced up and ready to go. So I'm just going through it all now. Jan's had a bit of a dust about because obviously we haven't been down here for a while, so everything is quite dusty.

But as you can see, we've had some beautiful items in. I go as slowly as possible. Absolute lovely items in. Stuff I've sold today as well. Beautiful.

Again, Christmas ornaments there. We you know, like the little villages. So we've got some lovely items in. Can't quite see because obviously but we need to because we've got so much China it's gonna end up getting broke see. So the China, the breakables are my priority over everything.

We've got some beautiful items. I've backfilled the draw with some of the Christmas items. They're like the gonks. We only got a few left now. Some of this is still from the garden center.

Remember the garden center? They give us all our stuff. We still got stock. Alright. Now we need to put this down in.

We've got some beautiful items. Really have sold some stuff out of the window today, but I'm trying to backfill it now so that when I get volunteers in, they got plenty of stock here, you know. They don't still got lovely stuff, baby stuff up there. Clothes have gone really well here today, pound runs. They've probably filled up about 20 angers today, so we've done about 20 pounds in clothes, I think.

Because they're only a pound, see, by these ones. So, you know, but we we don't believe that you should be paying $5.06, £7 for print mark items like you do in the other charity shops, you know. We ring fence the expensive stuff, you know. It goes to black with shop. We ring fence the posh stuff, you know.

The vintage, the the vintage sport and all the rest of it, and then the rest of it, pound each. These are the clothes that they charge 5 or £6 for in the other charity shops. And then, you know, the stuff that goes in the pound shop or the 20 p stuff is the stuff that they send off the cash for clothes that they rag. And in some cases, it's not because we've had some good stuff, you know, that's gone for 20 p. But because you keep bringing us your donations because you believe in us, we can keep it nice and cheap for you.

Not a lot of men's clothes down here as somebody pointed out today, so we are sorry with that. But, obviously, we're limited in this scale, what I can do in it. If they come in, they go up on the rail. They go up on the rail in the men's section. So, you know, I'll have a look.

But, yeah, I'm trying to dust it now, bring it back, fill it the best I can, get our novels because we're only gonna have this one section of novels here and get as many of the books priced up in in crates and buckets so that they can just put the bucket out or they're ready to go. So if they sell a book, they can bring one out of the back. But we've got some beautiful items here and lovely stuff donated again, guys. You know? And like I said, I've I've been sat here all day pricing.

Well, I've been pricing. My 18 has been pricing. Jan's been here, putting out claws and things as well, hanging them up. But, you know, we haven't stopped again. Three of us in this little shop.

And, actually, three volunteers wasn't bad, actually, because the the one was in the kitchen, I was down by you, and then Jan was back and forth by you. And it wasn't too bad because at some some stages, we did have two or three customers in here. So, you know, six, seven, one too bad. I mean, if you got a pram in here as well, it can be a nightmare. Don't forget we got a toilet, guys, as well because we had a little and we had an accident today.

Obviously, we give them free trousers and whatnot and let them use the toilet. But don't forget, we've got a toilet for our customers and donators, so don't feel like you can't use it. We won't charge you a quid either. I know somebody is just charging a quid now. Do you even use use the toilet?

What's going on? What's going on? Oh, I thought I'd call them chicks as a week. But I haven't. And I haven't.

So it is a bit backfilled. There is a lot on there, you know. You know me. I get my money's worth this this square footage, you know that. But, you know, when you think that I might sell 10 items off there tomorrow or or this evening, evening, they might come in and say, oh, I'll have that.

I'll have that. I'll have that. Then obviously, I, you know, I gotta go back and refill it, haven't I? But at least it's, you know, I can just face it up and go right and move that forward, move that forward, can't I? And then but, yeah, all new items down here again, beautiful.

I've got another one on standby I'm supposed to be picking up tonight. I'm not gonna make it tonight. I'm exhausted. Hopefully, I'm well, maybe I'll be able to pick it up in the morning. If I can empty the car tonight into you and get it priced, then I could pick that one up in the in the morning and then get that one out.

I can't just sit here, so you guys, I gotta be busy all the time. You know that. I I can't just sit here. You know? Like, Jam is like, you're going for a meal tonight.

It's like, no. I got stuff to do. It's just like, it's your birthday. I'm like, I just I'm fine. I'm fine you in risk, you know, doing this, like so I'm fine.

I got Watsets, some wraps. I got some fruit toast. I bet I won't get that on the celiac disease toast. I won't get that. That's a gift, isn't it?

I I like my toast. Oh, look. I just wrote 3.49, so this confuses everybody. They'd be like, oh, great. Just use wrong numbers because it's easier.

But, yeah, there's some beautiful items here. Beautiful items donated again, you know. And and these have been, you know, from somebody's, mum. A lot of this came that's been put into a nursing home. And they they were selling it as a job lot and they gave it to us for free because they said that's what their mum would like.

She would like it to go to people who will go in to enjoy it, and they know that the money is going % to a good cause and not some registered charity that's pulling a fast one like, you know. I'll try and keep this one on you now, it's a nice little shop. I've actually enjoyed being down there, I was dreading coming back down there, I was like oh god I'm going back down there, I don't deal with this. But actually I really enjoy coming down here. Pontypool is my favourite, I won't lie.

Blackwood gets on my nerves because of the resellers up there, you know. We've often dragged them out in an ad blocking. Security's bad out. They come running down and find out what's going on. And I'm like, this one's offended me.

He's like, oh, okay. Okay. Get on my nerves this one. Dry him out with an egg lock. But I do think well, look at the work that goes into it.

There's three of us today. Well, there's three of us here, and I think there's three of us in Pontypool and two in Blackwood. Right? So what's on us? Six.

So that's eight of us. Just giving up our time today to volunteer, you know. And I just think, well, if they come in then and say, oh, no. Get this cheaper than you know, you won't get the nice stuff that they got down the road. I can tell you that now because we get all the good stuff.

We get all the good stuff. So I'm I'm waiting a minute. Sorry, guys. But, yeah, it's been a it's been a quiet a quiet day today all around, I think. I think Pontypool had some good sales last going off.

I think they're okay if I come down here tomorrow. I know they've had donations in again, so I know the panic level's gone up a bit. I'm not panicking now because we've been offered a, an to lease a big square footage area for the price that I really, really wanted to lease it for. So that's on the table. I just haven't signed for it.

Could sign for it. They're pretty good. Like, they're they're one of our previous land they're one of our, current landlords, so we're not gonna have a problem with them, you know. That's why they've offered us us at a deal price. It's just there isn't that much work.

It there isn't that much work for us to keep it cheap and cheerful. It's just another bill at the end of day on top, isn't it? You know? We've got a gentleman Caerphilly. He's contacted us.

Are we still interested in his shop for the right price in Caerphilly? Yeah. Like I said, if it's like 300, 4 hundred, yes. Sign today, you know, a bit more than that. I'll have to consider it because I know we can make the money and then, you know, still buy the net fees and everything else.

So it's nice to be head hunted and head hunted as a tenant. We do our best, you know, with I think everybody's struggling with the credit crisis that's going on. At the moment. I understand people got their own bills to pay and everything, but, you know, like I just say to people, we I do not take a wage. I don't take a wage because I don't believe that's what charity is about, taking a wage.

I understand people gotta work and have money and the rest of it. But right now, I can't do anything because I'm useless. Absolutely useless physically. So I might as well put my input into something like this. So and I ain't you know, I can't seem doing my knees anytime soon and the rest fixing the rest of me anytime soon.

So I might as well get on and do something charitable, ain't I? And help other people out, save all of this stuff in the process. You know we've got the the manpower and the storage space here to save this amount of stock on a regular basis. But we need more footfall now, guys. So I need you to be saying to people, go and shop in our shops.

It's 75% off this week. I mean, what other charity shop is doing that here? Not a lot. So yeah. You know, like I said, once we're okay with the bills and everything, we can bring it bring the prices down even cheaper for you.

But I need more footfall in the shops because, obviously, you know, if I get 30 new customers word-of-mouth, that's brilliant. But the other thing is that those 30 customers will bring three or four bags of them next time they come in. So I'm in a catch 22 because although, yes, we want the donation so we can give it back to people, House Fire yesterday, we offered clothes straight away. You know, if you need clothes and stuff like that, come straight down the shop. Like, give us a shout.

We can get it sorted for you. You know, we would do three or four bags per person, you know, for that household of clothes. They wouldn't need to worry about them and and other stuff as well. But I need more footfall to keep it down because that's what keeps, you know, that's what keeps environmental health happy is that there's less stuff in the shops, you know. That's what keeps the shops tidier, is having more footfall.

I need more volunteers to help keep the shops tidier. We've got massive projects that I can't get off the ground because I haven't got enough volunteers, guys, you know. I need you in. I need you in now. And before long, the job centre's all they're gonna be saying to you anyway, you need to volunteer because that's the way it's going.

Like, you know, if you're if you're looking for work, at least if you're volunteering, they're off your back a bit. That's what we find that our volunteers find that if you have been told, you know, if you are under the job center, then they will be on your back about looking for jobs. And can you get one? Probably can't get one, you know. So at least if you're volunteering with us, they know you're working.

They know you're showing well in. Plus, you can put volunteer work goes really well on your on your CV, you know. And the other thing is is mental health in there guys, you know. It keeps you busy. It keeps me busy.

I'd like to say it keeps me out of trouble, but I don't think it does. I think I was born to cause trouble. There's not a lot I can do about it. I have tried to rectify my behaviour, it doesn't always go that way. But, yeah it keeps you busy as well see guys, don't it?

You know, keeps your mind off things. Doesn't it? Gets you out to the house talking to other people, talking to other mothers. You know, you haven't got to worry about lunch because we'll we'll sort you out with lunch with a micro meal or so you haven't gotta worry about paying £45 for Greggs every day. Probably more than that, ain't it?

You know, we do tea and coffee and pop and squash, people, so you haven't gotta worry about your drinks while you're in here. You know, we do a micro meal or a pot in a brew or something. You've got snacks laying around the place as well, so you haven't got to worry about that when you come in. If you're a good worker, I will pay your, transport as well. I mean some, some people are more available than other people so some people I know are good sellers as well then if I've got to pay for their bus fare to bring them in, then I'll pay their bus fare to bring them in.

But I I a bit selective with paying, petrol and things like that unless you are actually making a massive impact because, you know, transport costs can can come quite a lot. We can keep the food cost down. We're the food banks, so we feed people anyway. So but with the petrol and all, you know, you need to be in quite a bit or working twenty four seven. The people I've had in with me today have worked twenty four seven, and I know they've worked twenty four seven over Pontecorp because I know they wouldn't have stopped over there today.

You know. So I've got to fill up that bottom shelf now, and I think there was a few items on there that weren't placed from the last time. I got a load of teacups, but it's all those silver wedding anniversary ones, and the pearl ones they don't tend to go very well unless somebody's got like some sort of craft crafting going on. But yeah, I got I still got stuff in the car, so I've got about three or four box fulls in the car, big box fulls, so I want to try and get out as much as possible. Clean the shelves, clean around the floor where the stuff is, make sure it's priced, get it out, because then I can just have an easy day then, can I sat there?

Well, I never have an easy day. I just sit there pressing all day. All making content that we get paid for or goading the waiter the haters so that they pay us. No. No.

No. We're on offer. Yeah. Come on in. Come on in.

I'd be here all night if my, landlord would let me, but, sends me home this window. Can't hold down. There's a step. Okay, babe. Hi, are you alright?

Yes. You do. Oh, we got a few customers now, guys. So I'll take the live off.