So another thing we are going to start asking for guys, it's like all these bits of the bottles.
Like sometimes you haven't got the full bits of the bottle but I just keep them because sometimes mums lose the top of their ears.
Yeah, so I just do that.
Anyway, I'm not asking for bits of bottles.
What I'm asking for is my next request from the baby bank.
Postcards.
If you've got any postcards, as long as you don't mind us having them because people collect postcards, right, they're collectable for the pictures and the locations.
People collect them because they're vintage little things.
They like that.
As long as you're happy to give them to us with, you know, personal messages on the back, that's fine.
But this one was in something and it came in and the stamp.
So this one is being sold because of the value on stamp.
Now my mother's got all the stamps and they go in through them.
They've only just finished the coins on top of all her other jobs, but she's starting to research them.
But this one was here so I thought I'd do it.
So we put him up.
He is ten pound, but obviously be half price.
So that's not a bad price to pay for a collectable stamp.
But as long as you're happy with us having your postcards.
Because we sell the postcards.
Sometimes, black wood we do like a vintage bundle, so we can get a bit more for that, depending on what it is, right?
So I might put it in with a book on Tenerife and then some postcards and then some other stuff and you know, whatever.
Pontypool, I think we've just got a postcard three for a pound and they go quite well.
But like I said, if they've got stamps on the first thing we would do when we have postcards in is research the stamps.
So yeah, if you've got anything like that, any old, old memorabilia, we've got some love letters that have come in down.
But I'm going to package them up in a poly pocket or whatever and put them because people like things about history.
People like history, don't they?
People like Pontypool shop because of the history as well.
You know, they come in and they'd like to talk about the tunnels and things going on and the streets and things like that.
So anything, anything that don't throw nothing out at all, ask us first.
Always ask us.
You know, I had a lady who had like five boxes of these and my mother's going through them for the stamp value first before and then they'll take the stamp off and the stamp will go in the album and then we'll still have the postcards.
So we still make something from the postcards and it's not going to landfill.
That's the main thing.
You know, we're all about.
My thing is stopping all of this going to landfill.
OK, now I could make a business out of this because they are well, we've made a business out of it, haven't we?
But there's so many secondhand shops that are businesses, they're small businesses and they keep the profit.
But I've decided to give the profit away to cover the expenses of the baby bank and to mothers and families in need.
They are the ones that struggling right now and not getting the help.
OK, so that's what I've decided not to take a wage.
I've decided to use my training that I've had in the past to put into this for it to excel.
But this is my thing is recycling.
That is my thing.
I cannot stand anything going in the bin like the painting clothes is over there.
They're going in the pound shop.
Man came in this morning.
Man walked into a charity shop, sounds like a blooming joke, don't it?
He came in this morning.
He wanted a pair of trousers, a pair of trousers for the garden.
I said, have a look in that bag before you go anywhere else.
I said, because there's something there with painting, if they're any good.
He had a pair of trousers out of there.
He said, how much?
I said, no, you can have them.
They got paint on them.
Put two quid in the box in the food bank box.
He didn't have to.
I'd have given them to him because they got paint on them.
But do you see how it works?
You know, we've salvaged our most people would have checked that.
Most charity shops would have gone out rags or whatever.
But we've made two pounds for the food bank and I didn't even ask for it.
Didn't even ask for it.
And then next time that gentleman needs something or wants to donate, you'll come here because he had the trousers, you know, we were giving him the trousers for free like.
So do you see how like even just little things like this, we can stop from going in the bin.
Little things like, yes, I haven't got a top to this, but it might be all right.
Somebody might use it with sticking it up in the pound shop.
They might have it in.
Fill a bag, you know, little things like this.
A mother might have lost the top of it.
Well, you know what happens if you lose the top of them, right?
Yeah.
So you need one.
So they might come in and say, oh, I've been looking everywhere for top.
And if they come down with that and they buy another stuff, we just check it in for free.
You know, we don't charge for every single thing in the shop.
We just don't, you know.
So, yeah, like I said, guys, before you check things, let us know.
