So, morning, guys.
Dan has just done his last run at the baby shop in Abergavenny.
And then we've still got a car full from the volunteers.
It was getting late last night, so the volunteer just went home with the stuff in the car, because it was just easier than going to the shop.
Because the shop is quite full now, so it was difficult to unload.
So, he's unloading the one last car that he's just picked up.
So, many thanks to Little Treasures for that.
That was amazing.
We weren't expecting that.
We were only expecting to pick up racking.
Well, not racking.
Shop racking, rather than big racking.
To pick up all the rest of it was amazing.
So, thank you for that.
And we wish you all the best after 60 days of trading.
Yeah, brilliant.
Thank you, guys.
And if we ever get a place in Abergavenny, I'm sure you guys will pop over and volunteer.
Because, of course, all their staff was there as well.
So, yeah, we've got another car full to go down.
I don't even want to think what the shop's looking like now, because now I've got a shop and a shop.
That's loads of donations to go through.
So, I'm going to need tons and tons of volunteers next week.
Because, if we don't get a shop soon, which we are waiting to see if the rents go down with this cost of living crisis for Caerphilly.
Because Caerphilly is high on rents.
And it depends what type of shop we get.
Then we'll just have to store this shop fittings away until we get another shop.
But we're going to have to drag everything out of the donation room, put everything in there.
Oh, is it going to be a nightmare?
Anyway, there we are.
Plus, there's a guy that got some racking that I might be buying as well.
So, you know, just to make the situation worse.
So, all this make-up has been donated.
Some of it's been used, some of it's brand new.
It's not for sale.
Oh, my God.
What a fuss yesterday.
I mean, honestly, like, we offered those girls prams.
We told them from the very start.
The very start.
As soon as I put those pictures up.
The prams are not for sale.
The prams are not for sale.
Yeah, but I'm on this pram.
The prams are not.
Yeah, but I need this pram.
Oh, well, my prams broke.
I'm in need of a pram.
Right?
But these prams are not for sale and they're not going in the baby bank for display.
These prams were year marked for two ladies that had a hell of a Christmas, that ended up in hospital and are now in refuges.
And they're walkers.
We always give out good prams, especially new ones, to mums that walk and haven't got transport.
Because they will be using the pram for at least three to four years.
So they need a damn good pram.
One that's not going to break.
One that's not going to fall apart.
So they need the new prams.
So it went on and on and on last night.
And then she was on another group asking for another brand new pram.
And it was like somebody had gifted it for free.
It was our group.
And you know, it doesn't all have to come in through my door.
We're more than happy for families to gift a free in between themselves.
That's what it's all about.
Preventing landfill, you know.
And that was such a nice gesture to do because the family could have got at least two to three hundred for the pram they gave away last night.
But thankfully it's gone to somebody who needs it and not somebody who's working in a team or a little group of girls that are trying to get all these brand new prams.
Because we offered them second hand prams and they refused without even seeing the picture.
And I was like, hang on, I'll see if I can get a picture now.
Which one of my volunteer managers and my moderators can confirm that I was asking in for pictures of prams last night so that I could show these girls.
But they didn't even want to see the pictures of the second hand prams.
Now we deal with a lot of individuals that ask for stuff.
We do have a referral system.
We do get people ringing up.
I do get social services ringing up saying they've got a family.
And I always tell them to contact me themselves because I don't like going through the social work as you know that.
If they've put their personal details on Facebook.
If you put anything on Facebook, that's in the public domain.
And the police will tell you this and the courts will tell you this.
Anything that you put on Facebook.
If I was to put my birth certificate on Facebook now and everybody copied it and posted it everywhere, I've put it in the public domain.
There's nothing you can do about that.
Because you've put it in the public domain regardless of whether it's in a private message or not.
Now we've got a system where you have to write a written request for free items.
They wouldn't follow the procedures.
We told them what the procedures were.
They wouldn't follow the procedures.
We asked them to wait because we were in the middle of physically helping this woman because she is ill herself.
Then we were physically helping her take down this shop racking off the wall.
And packing the cars and helping her pack up her shop after 16 years of trading.
We asked them to wait and they wouldn't wait.
They kept on and on and on.
So we banned them because they became abusive, sarky, and a lot of other people flagged at their comments as coming across as greedy.
Which they did.
I think they were greedy.
So that's not a problem as far as I understand.
Report me to wherever you want to report me to.
If I was as bad as you're saying, I would have sold you that £1,800 pram for £1,000 and made money off it.
But I didn't.
I've given it to two...
I've given that... there was four prams.
Because I think there was a...
Is it a silver cross running one night?
I'm going to say one.
It begins with a C.
Cost...
Cost it to... I can't say it.
We've given... those prams have been allocated.
And people were already on the waiting list.
So, you know, it amazes me how people think they can just grab what they want.
You know, we are here to make sure the donations is dealt out with as fairly as possible.
That wasn't fair last night.
And if you're going to... if you're going to slag us off all over Facebook, carry on because every other group, every other charity, knows that we won't take no mess in.
They know I'm laid back as hell and will give anybody anything.
But they know I won't take no mess in.
So any other charity or group that have seen those posts and now have gone, oh, we won't touch her with a barge pole, because she's going to be nothing but trouble.
If we don't give her what she wants, she's going to kick off.
You just... you've literally just kicked yourself in the backside, really, by posting things like that.
You know.
But carry on.
Whatever.
Makes my algorithm bounce up and down.
I'm happy for that.
So this makeup here is all going to be going over to the Refuge today.
You know, I could sell this.
Mac, naked, whatever.
But I don't want to.
I'd rather take it over to the Refuge.
I've seen some of the girls in some of the Refuge over Christmas.
And, you know, we don't need to sell this.
You know, this will make them happy, maybe.
Keep, you know, putting on your makeup, doing your nails and things like that.
A little bit of self-care and then sometimes that's what you need.
And that's why it's important.
And we work on the base of empowering women to empower other women.
Not to drag other women down.
So, you know, the women who have donated this today now, we've told them it's going to the Refuge and they're more than happy with her.
And that's where it should be.
And we work on a basis of need, not greed.
And as soon as those...
One of the other mothers on the post said, I knew as soon as you put those pictures up, she said, I knew you put them up just to show people.
