So, just to remind everybody now that we've had permission to pick up from certain shops, certain boxes at certain times, days.
Donations are left outside charity shops after a certain time because I've had a few funny looks but well, a few more than normal.
So we just say that is it.
But we've been And what I've told the volunteers that's been authorized by me to pick up is to say, oh, give Jayne a ring in the morning and give this manager a ring in the morning and they can confirm that we have been authorized to pick up.
Because there's some things that certain charity shops can't have out.
They've got a certain genre of stuff or a certain caliber of stuff they're only allowed to put out.
I mean, you know us, if it's a bit in a pound shop, fill a bag for a fiver.
Or, you know, that isn't the last stop for it.
That's not the last stop.
The last stop is outside in the bag for free or in the free box.
And if somebody don't want to take it from there, then that's when it would go to landfill.
But we would probably use it as cleaning rags.
I had a bit of ripped material this week.
I didn't think was much cop for anything.
So I've been using it as cleaning rags.
So we wash that and then once they've had it then we'll bin them.
But there's also stuff that perhaps there's not selling for them.
They tell us to take it.
A lot of people are fed up with the amount of clothes.
We're doing our clothes at three for a pound because obviously cash for clothes give us clothes.
Other charities give us clothes.
I'm not going to name the individual charities because they've asked me not to.
It's an arrangement between me and the managers in the shops and me and the charity people who pick it up and moreover with the vans.
And sometimes they also bring the vans to our shop because they go to the charity shop.
They've had an influx of donations in our morning and then they've got too many and they come to me or they'll ring me and say we got a van full.
It's clothes, avodash, you know might be table and chairs or whatever.
Where do you want us to take it?
And I will say take it to backwards, take it to Pontypool, take it to risk.
I use the code to get in.
You take it to the donation centre, use the code to get in.
They know what they're doing.
You know we've got relationships and reports with these individuals.
We can't put their names up because A, some of them don't want the charity names up because you know people saying oh well you've given your donations away.
Well they're doing it because you know they haven't got the room basically.
Or it's not their style of donations.
For example, very often a massive charity, the Trussell Trust, you don't mind being named, often contact us and say we've got a pile of baby food, we've got a pile of baby milk, I got a pile of nappies and I got another load due in.
Do you want to come and get these and can you get them out before the dates go on?
We say yes please, we'll come and pick them up now.
And that's what it's about.
And it's about working together to prevent landfill and making sure that the right people get their donations, isn't it?
That's what it's all about, the right people get their help.
I suggest for people to be aware.
And don't leave donations outside our shop guys because we've got a bin dipper, right?
We've got one now.
I had one, remember the other week he pulled all my rubbish out, I went mental.
Yeah, so the police moved him on yesterday, he came back again and he's been a bit of a noose, he's ripping stuff up, cardboard boxes and right, so because some of the buff boxes I leave on the doorstep because they're nice and flat for posting and people haven't for vented and things like that.
Or if we got a pile of boxes and leave them on the doorstep because somebody might be moving and they might say, oh, there's a pile of boxes, where do I take them?
So yeah, so just for you to be aware guys that we've had permission from certain places to do this.
So there we are.
I'm not going to lie to you, I can't pass a ship, you'll know that, but I would ask permission before I run in somebody's ship.
Been in a few, been in a few, haven't we Jan?
Right, anyway, we've had loads of donations guys, we haven't had a lot of customers today, but we've been busy, we've been really busy.
If you've got any of those vacuum bags that you end using, we're wondering whether to start storing stuff in vacuum bags now.
If you've got any of them, somebody dropped off a load to me yesterday, and that's what gave me the idea, and that's what they're doing now.
They're finishing off sucking up the vacuum bags in Pontypool with all the children's clothes, because we've got so many.
I mean, we're not just a baby bank anymore, we were a full children's bank.
You know, the amount of clothes we'd get in is brilliant, isn't it?
So yeah.
