Right, so here's another volunteer video.

Ok, these have come out the wash.

Ok, so they've been washed because they were mucky.

That's part of our conservation.

Ok, now I would expect a volunteer to clean this out.

You want a tweezer to do it.

I have got a tweezer in my box, but little tweezers or something, a little tool and it will get all of that fluff and hair and god knows what out of it.

One of my volunteers was doing the digsaws the other day and she was like, oh, there's all hair inside the digsaw boxes.

She's only sixteen.

She's like, oh, there's all hair.

I said, yeah, and that's one of my pet hates that inside those digsaw boxes there's always bits of hair.

So we would get it out, clean it out, count it and put it back.

So I would expect this to be cleaned out before they go on the shop floor.

Now these have been washed because these were bad.

And they're Dunlop, right?

So they're vintage Dunlop.

So we would probably get a couple of quid from them if I tried, but I can't be bothered with them.

So if somebody else wants them because they are damaged, right, they go in the pound shop in Pontypool.

Ok, so they'd either have them for a pound or they'd fill a bag for a fiver, which would be end up.

The time you fill a carrier bag, I don't know, you're paying less than a penny an item sometimes when you're out there.

Because you can get, we tell you to stuff the bags, you know, somebody might have them just for the leases alone.

So, because obviously we've got a floor that's dedicated to stock, like I've got a top that's come out the wash.

So we've had two washes, the stain won't come out.

We'll put it up there.

Somebody might have it for decorating or something or rags or whatever.

So if you're in the other shops, always have a run-in Pontypool bag.

Look at it and think, well that's a bit rough.

That jump was a bit bobbly.

Or I just threw the towel up and there was a towel that's been washed.

Good towel, but it's stained.

So, you know, somebody's used it for dyeing their hair at some point.

Check it up there in the pound shop and then somebody'll have it in fill a bag for a fiver.

Easy, easy.

So just for you to be aware.

Or like, see like we've got teapots there.

If they didn't have a lid, teapot would still sell without a lid, right?

Because people have it for plants and things like that, right?

It might be that they've broken their teapot and they've got a lid, right?

Because most lids fit.

So that would go in the pound shop, you know.

We don't chuck nothing out.

We're very low waste.

Oh, the other thing I was going to point out as well, I need to find it.

Because those haters and what have you, that Natalie and all, and all the rest of them, they were going on about, we're leaving our rubbish everywhere.

We don't leave our rubbish everywhere at all.

We pay to have our rubbish collected.

Blackwoods is, we pay to have it collected.

You know, all of our shops is paid to have our rubbish collected.

They've come out and they've assessed us.

So we don't have a big biffa bin because not everything goes in one bin anymore.

It all has to go in separate bags and be separated, like your household waste.

So they come out to us and they assessed what waste that we needed.

So we put it in a bag and we put it at a collection point, okay?

So I just want to clarify that, that we pay to have rubbish removed.

Because you will always generate some rubbish.

But what we say is that we do our best.

Like most charity shops would check it out or put it out for free or whatever.

Worst case scenario, we put them out for free.

Try it in a pound shop first.

And if you don't go in one of the bags, then we have a free day.

Or we just fill up the, fill up some green bags.

You know, the green see-through bags.

And then we put them out the front, free bag.

But the dealers, you've got to take your bag, you know.

So yes, we are minimal waste.

We're not zero waste.

Nobody can be zero waste.

Because you're always going to generate some.

But we are minimal.

So just for you to be aware with that.

And obviously we've got new volunteers coming.

And obviously we're training them.

And like these have been washed because they were a bit minging.

And they've come up lovely.

These little croc things always come up lovely in the machine.

These ones again, these are converse.

So they would be worth salvaging.

They've gone in the wash because they were dirty.

Right.

And it's no shade on people who are donating things like this.

This is, this would have been like a standard donation.

But look, as you can see, I wouldn't expect, especially a converse, if we're going to be asking a fiver from or something like that, a bit more than like a pound, I would expect that to be taken out by volunteers.

Okay.

It hasn't been done yet because they've only just dried.

So, you know, but I would expect that to be tidy.

Okay.

This is why I go nuts sometimes because in the past, we've had people here that's been here for their own gain.

And we know that because they stole the cash and they stole loads of stuff.

So we know that.

And they haven't been concentrating on our core values and beliefs, which is the cycling.

And, you know, things like this need to be done.

We've got draws and draws of stationary stuff.

So there's bound to be something.

Oh, this annoys me.

We've only got draws and draws of stationary stuff around me.

Too much stuff, you know.

Anything will pull this out.

Look, I've got a screw over there.

You'll be able to fiddle that out with a screw.

But this is why we need volunteers in, see, because I need people double checking.

You know, and there's, you know, I can This stuff is human error at the end of the day.

That's coming out lovely from there, isn't it?

Oh, up in the pound shop, I got some cots as well.

Like sleeping cots and I think swinging cots.

They're a pound.

I don't know if the fixings are up there.

But screws like this, wood chip screws, right?

Oh, I don't know if you can see it.

Right.

Or decking screws, right?

Decking screws are coated.

So they're a pound up in the

I don't know if the fixings.

It doesn't matter if the fixings are up there with the cots.

You can still have them for a pound.

They got to go.

We get loads of cots and stuff in.

So there's one in Caerphilly, a cot, that's got the fixings.

That one's up for a five.

This would be 250.

And then the ones up there, I don't think there's any in Blackwood.

Don't forget, Blackwood is 75% off.

We're But then it's got its own front part.

So we could put stuff out the front to draw people in as well.

You know, if I could pick up the shop in Blackwood and put it on the high street, I would.

But how much would it cost me then on the high street?

That size of the shop.

And the problem is with big shops is we fill them.

Little shops are easier to keep tidy because you've got to have more ground up.

That's what I'm finding.

So as much as I like Harrods and fill it.

I mean, if somebody if somebody wants to buy me Wilkinson's, I'd be forever grateful.

But, you know, we do well in Wilkinson.

So I think when we are at the top, I'd want the top bit.

That'd be nice to have the market bit, wouldn't it?

We could open it back up then see as a market.

Can we do it cheaper?

Because I think they were something like it was ridiculous.

It was like £32 a day in Blackwood.

Something like that.

Ridiculous.

And that's why people were making money up there.

And that's why it's shut.

Where does we could do it like for the ten or a day for mothers and they could have like their craft stores up there.

You know, I said that when we were looking at quick save down the pill before, but they wouldn't rent it.

They only wanted to sell it.

I said we could have car boots there not charge the mothers.

You know, they could just come in because that's recycling.

It's all recycling.

And they could come in like on a Saturday morning or Sunday and do a car boot and whatever they don't want, they don't sell, give to us.

And that's how we make it back in there.

But they I think they sold it in the end and they click save.

That would be an ideal for us to learn in Newport.

I would love that.

That's what we want in Newport.

Something big or stand alone.

That's what we want.

We don't want to be like next to loads of other stuff.

We need to be like a destination there and it needs to be big.

Right.

Done my shoe bits now.

Got time

