Right, so evening, guys.
If anybody wins the lottery this weekend, can you buy me 26 bays of racking for my warehouse, please, in a pump truck?
We would appreciate it very much.
I'm desperate now.
I need racking.
Right, so I even need another one of those.
Six cube, maybe an eight, because an eight might go there.
Or I need some sort of glass dresser to go there and scrap the lot of that, because I don't like that set up there.
That set up there isn't doing it for me.
So we even need a glass dresser or something to go there or a dresser.
The weekend, please, so I can crack on with it.
26 bays of racking in a pump truck.
I need volunteers, more volunteers, because I've had more books in, more donations in, and I can't keep up with it.
I've only just emptied half of my car from the one I picked up last night, because I've only just finished the one I already had.
So yeah, we need more volunteers.
So back up to 50% tomorrow, guys.
Thank you so much for all my birthday messages, and I hope you enjoyed the 75% discount.
I haven't signed any leases as of yet.
I have several pending.
It's nice, but for choice.
I've messaged somebody else about a shop today, but the area is a bit flat to have a shop.
Like as in sales, but then if they do it for storage, if they did it the same price as a storage price, then I might as well as have a shop with an A1 license, don't I?
You know, if they're gonna do it as storage prices anyway, we may as well as have a shop.
So, iron's in the fire in it, guys.
That's what we need all the time with this job.
We need iron's in the fire.
I need, I have 26 bays of racking.
ASAP.
At least 26 bays.
Big industrial racking, I'm talking now.
Not just shelves.
Not just the metal shelves.
Like the racking I've got already in the donation centre.
I don't even want new.
I'll have second-hand racking.
I'm not fussy.
I have moved from this position today.
I don't know what we've done in sales today.
It's been slow and steady today.
Which is sometimes good, isn't it?
Sometimes better than being rushed off your feet.
I've managed to work all those boxes that were here.
Every single bit of every single box.
Other than the books that I've got.
So, these are the books I had from Bridge End a while ago.
Well, this is part of it.
This is like a third of it.
Because I split it into three lovely books.
So, I don't know if I'm gonna stay and finish that.
I might sort those bags of clothes out.
Because then Monday when I come in, if I've got a volunteer, I can say to them, those clothes got to be hung up.
Those clothes aren't.
Those clothes are for washing, you know.
Like I've got to pile it off chance for pricing when I get five minutes.
Or if I had a volunteer, I could say, that's pricing.
These are the prices.
And then put them on that rail there, you know.
Well, I'm cracking on with this, couldn't I?
I got about 30 items down the front by there to price.
That's just come in.
They haven't come in.
I picked them up last night, sorry.
We had quite a few bags of donations today.
And we've worked them.
We've worked them all week.
So, me and my volunteers under 18 worked them all week.
And Jan came in and helped us.
So, everything that's come in, has been worked.
There's a couple of books by there.
Which are like first edition signed copies.
Well, I've backfilled the cupboards with signed copies at the back.
So, what I might do is send those ones up Blackwood.
Because he's got more scope for selling them at Blackwood, hasn't he?
Then what we have down here, like we might sell up signed copy.
You know, once people at risk of realize, the book collectors at risk of realize that we're doing vintage books and signed copies and first editions, then obviously they'll start selling.
But right now they're just sat in the cupboards.
But yeah, we even need a posh dresser.
Because we've got a lot of posh dressers in here, haven't we?
So, we even need a posh dresser to go there.
I wonder what that was then.
Boys in a wheelie.
Or Kalex units.
Because I don't like the set up I've got.
I could fudge it.
Because I could see that shelf, I could screw on there and then screw it to the wall, couldn't I?
And then I don't like that thing, the plate rack.
You know, the plate racks that Roy made that never got plates on them.
I don't like it, but they're either stick out a bit too much when you're going through the back.
I might sort the clothes because that's a quick job.
And then regroup.
And then I don't know whether to work, get as much of this done and then go over to Pontypool and do a night shift over Pontypool to the wee hours.
Or just go home.
Might go home.
Oh, I might go home because I've got flowers off Jan.
So I might for my birthday.
I can put them in my other ones in the house.
Oh, I've also got a pot in Pontypool of flowers customers have bought.
So thank you very much for that.
We've sold quite a few things today actually.
Oh, and I have got thank you stickers to stick on the books that I've already priced which are under 18 in boxes.
So I could do that.
So I think my under 18 is doing Tuesday and Thursday's year next week.
And then GP rang.
I've got to have a face to face doctor's appointment with him on Thursday after the poop check.
That doesn't sound too good, does it?
Sounds a bit ominous.
Does it ring me or send me a prescription?
That sounds rough.
I'm looking forward to that.
I've got to wait until Thursday to find out.
Oh, I closed.
Sorry guys.
Sorry.
Be back open next week.
So yeah, I need a dresser and I also need a shelf to go in the window.
I can get another shelf in there to elevate some of my teddies and stuff.
So I don't know if that's zigzaggy one we've got would be too big.
Or do I need a smaller one to go in or just use a zigzaggy one and put the other one somewhere else?
I don't know.
Anyway, keep your eye out on Marketplace.
So I need three Ikea glass cabinets.
Three of them.
Some sort of posh thing to go here.
Maybe another one of these.
But how much will it come out?
Oh, the trouble is with this.
I can't pick it up.
I think Roy picked that one up for me, didn't he?
That's going to be quite big, isn't it?
So that's going to take up there.
So it's going to be stuck out.
So I think I'm going to need a double one, didn't I?
A double and a bit maybe.
Because otherwise.
Oh no, they're quite narrow though, aren't they really?
So maybe if I come there, he's going to come there and he's still going to be out as far as they are, isn't he?
But then at least it's not.
Because we've got nice cupboards and then this bit lays it down a bit up here, doesn't it?
What do you think?
I think it lays it down a bit up here.
Lovely colour, isn't it?
We've had loads in and people are like, oh, by the way, I just put that there.
As soon as I put it out, it's been sold.
That's good, it's good though, isn't it?
It's going.
It's going.
People have enjoyed it.
That's nice, isn't it?
Look at that.
Pretty.
Look at that.
That's some beautiful stuffing, guys.
You know that.
You know we have some nice stuffing.
Lovely perfumes and stuff we've had in there.
Some children's clothes have gone.
The clothes have gone well because these ones are a pound, you look.
They've gone well.
They're like, oh, how much are these?
Two pound, two pound.
And I've gone, no pound.
And they've gone, oh.
So I don't know how much they are in the other shops, okay?
I don't know.
So yeah, I've got to go through these now.
So we'll have a look, is there?
And see.
See, that's quite a good one, isn't it?
Oh, he's pre-marked.
So he's all right.
You can stay here.
So I'll have a look now.
But I mean that's good in there.
But that can go weird.
We've got tons of clothes.
It's not like we're going to lose out.
We're now selling our pre-marked jacket for five quid, about the other charity shops.
We sell it for a pound.
Somebody said, look, my jacket.
Yeah.
From James Baby Bank.
For a quid.
Little bike in.
Girls bike.
It's a nice one too.
It's good condition.
Lovely.
It's a nice jumpsuit.
Oh, got some lovely stuff in fair play.
Lovely books again.
These are all of the first edition signed copies.
First edition.
It's quite a few there.
I don't know what to do.
I was watching.
I was waiting for it.
I thought, oh, it's out the day before my birthday.
I can't wait to watch that.
I forgot on Netflix about the Wests.
Fred and Rosemary Wests.
I thought, oh, I've watched that.
And I forgot it was on.
So, yes, I don't know what to do.
I might go.
I might go and watch my serial killer documentary.
Relax and watch my serial killer documentary.
What do you think?
I think I sort the clothes.
And then when I come in Monday, if somebody comes in.
The other thing is I had a little bag of clothes in, say ten items, and I sorted them there and they were all ones, you know, that went on the pound rail.
So I just chucked them on the top.
They were two that needed washing.
So I put them in my washing bag.
Chuck them on the top of the rail.
But they've sold.
Because people have gone, oh, how much are these leggings?
Oh, they're a pound as well.
So they've all sold.
So even know they're not hanging up.
They've gone.
We've probably done another 20 to 30, I would say, in the pound clothes today.
Which is good, isn't it?
I mean, the other shops are probably doing five to in there, but then, you know, we started this to let our customers have a bargain as well, didn't we?
You know, so we don't want to put our clothes up to silly prices, do we?
We get the money for the good clothes in Blackwood, don't we?
The designer, the vintage and the rest of them.
So it's nice for our customers to have a bargain.
See, the other ones get greedy, don't they?
So yeah, they're snugging, doing too good, apparently.
That's part of the risk of CV19, coronavirus, community volunteers, Wales.
I don't know if they can call themselves community volunteers, Wales.
It's not like they're covering the whole of Wales.
They're not doing too well down there, apparently.
Customers been telling me in here today.
Well, I did warn you all about them, didn't I?
I did warn you what they were like.
It's the greed, you know, I watched the documentary last night about Captain Tom's daughter.
The greed gets to them.
That's the trouble, you know.
See, I'm not motivated by that, see.
I'm not motivated by it.
I'm motivated by saving the stuff.
That's my motivation.
See, a lot of people think my motivation is the baby bank.
But it's not.
That's where I choose to put the money, you know, once the shops are paid for, once the bills are paid for, then obviously that's where I choose to let the profit that's made after the bills are paid and our expenditures into.
That's the end goal.
The start goal is to save the stuff.
That's what I'm driven by, is saving all of the items.
Like we clean everything.
Like, do you even want to see my clothes?
We clean everything.
We repair it.
We restore it.
There's quite a few books that I've restored.
There's some I've taken that's really old that my dad's going to take and use some really old glue on them, you know, so that he's not using like Yumi Bond, which is new stuff, on the really old books.
So he's repairing them as they should be repaired by a book, like a book specialist would repair them then, you know.
Like I could repair them.
I could just get my no nails gun and glue the spines back on, couldn't I?
But he's using vintage glue
to repair the books as well.
Right, so I need to make a decision what I'm doing.
I think I'll sort those clothes out and do that first.
See you in a bit, guys.
