So hey guys, I'm open tonight.
Yeah, so come down if you want to come down.
If the door's locked, just knock.
I'm only going to be over there or downstairs on the loo.
That's all I'm going to be doing.
Right, so just to remind our Pontypool buyers now.
Okay, we do this in Blackwood.
So we're now rolling this out in Pontypool.
Okay?
They have been doing it, but we've done it a slightly different way that works better in Blackwood.
So when you come in and the box is £3.50 and you think, well I can get £57 down wherever.
Whatever the rubbish deal I'm doing this week.
There's a reason why they're £3.50, right?
Because they pay for a pack of nappies.
Okay, so we've got our signs up as well.
So we're appealing to the UK book lovers and media buyers to pay the price of one pack of nappies or less for a book to support a family with a pack of nappies a week.
So if you come in and you think, well I'm having that book there, and I'm having that book there, that is two Right?
That's two families, two separate families you've supported with a free pack of nappies.
Okay, that's the way we do it.
So that's why we're asking you to do it.
So just a reminder, this is what we do this in Blackwood and it works really well.
We've got some fantastic sales.
Was it?
Was it £40?
The highest.
Chris, I think it was, when I took the highest for one book, which was £40.
But I know like the others have sold two or three books.
And very often our mothers who are readers will come in and buy two or three books off us.
And you know, I know they can get them cheaper elsewhere, but they'd rather give it to us because that's their way of supporting it, us and supporting it back to other families.
So The other thing is that we're very, very blessed with all our donations.
We're very blessed.
It's not just a book.
It's a proper vintage book, right?
It's a proper vintage copy that we've got, right?
Now, this is what I've been doing for the last 24 hours, my 24-hour shift, right?
All of those are first editions.
They've all been priced.
They need to go in a glass cabinet or somewhere.
They're half price as well, if we're not half price.
So there's some dearer ones in there, but these books are more collectible or They're like such-and-such a number off a print, off the reel.
So they're more collectible.
So that one's ten pound, right?
But it's copy to look, right?
So they're more collectible than maybe what the books are you're buying, fifty-seven for a pound, whatever.
You know, whatever they're doing this week, or six million bags for a pound, whatever they're doing this week, because we actually check the books.
I wipe them all over, like I do with... you know that because you see me doing the children's books, right?
We wipe them all over and we go through them and we look at them all, yeah?
We look at it and we think, right?
There we are.
That one's ten, so that'll be roughly three Pakistanappies a week.
So if you buy that, that'll be three Pakistanappies.
That's three families that you'd be helping.
So, but again, it's a 1963 vintage copy.
So you're not just picking up a book and spending ten pound on a book, all right?
You're actually owning, you know, you're on your way through it being an antique book there, if it's vintage, isn't it?
So just to remind everybody in Pontypool why we're doing this, OK, we do it in Blackwood, we do it in Risca, it works out quite well.
Brimmo, I'm not so sure, but in the other shops it works quite well.
We don't have so many books in Risca because it's only little, isn't it?
Like Brimmo is only small, so before long, like one shelf would take it over, wouldn't it?
So we don't have a lot of books, but the books we do have go in and out quite often.
So that's brilliant, guys.
If you can, you know, if you can support us with a box, absolutely amazing.
Yeah, and don't forget, I don't know what time I'll be at till, but I'll put on when I'm leaving anyway.
But yeah, if you want to come down and do some shopping, more than welcome.
So I've got some bits of donations, if you want to come in and volunteer, I'll send them in.
See if Sammy is doing them in the morning.
If it's me doing them, I've got to give back to my books.
