So yeah, the update from Trading Standards was, I mean most things we check for fire retardant labels anyway, for safety reasons.
We knew that.
But for example, and this one wasn't pulled up.
Steph just found this one now when she was having a look.
See this one, I've had the label cut out of it.
Now, like she said, we know that's come from Tesco's and we know that Tesco's is all fire retardant.
But I think we would probably, on the advice we've been given today now, I think we'd probably dispose of that one.
So careful when you're cutting labels out now, mums, because if you're cutting out the fire retardant labels, that might just be the size label, it might mean that we can't recycle the clothes and they can't go to land.
They would have to go to landfill.
We've had a good day today.
Look, plenty of customers in today.
They don't listen to their heaters, our customers.
That might just be the size label, if I'm honest.
I'll have to have a look now inside it.
But yeah, if the labels are cut out, it might mean now that we cannot recycle that item and it has to go to landfill.
So I know there's some children out there that can't have tags.
Tags do annoy me sometimes.
Especially, I tell you, who's the worst is Boohoo.
They're the worst for their tags.
Look at this coming out of his booty hole.
They're the worst for the tags.
So yeah, we would have to check all of our fancy dress now just to be on the safe side.
We usually check them anyway, because we check everything that comes in.
Because anything that's marked, my auntie or Viv will take it home to wash it or my mother will wash it.
She's got some knitwear now she's washing because I'm not too good with knitwear.
It tends to get stretched.
But we were going to do a lot of fancy dress.
Remember, we were going to do a rail for World Book Day.
And we were also going... Oh, look, I've got the Elvis costume by here.
I should have had him up last week, shouldn't I?
God, I could have tripled my price on him last week.
What's he got on him there now?
Let's have a look.
Let's have a look.
Right, Elvis lives.
So that's where he's come from.
Warning, not suitable.
Keep away from fire.
So that includes candles because apparently, unfortunately, Claudia Wilkin, Winkleman's daughter, went past a candle and it went up in flames because it must have had something flammable.
Like, well, obviously flammable, but like, I don't know, perhaps a lacy thing or something on there.
But, for example, now school, like if any school was clearing out costumes that mothers had made, and my mother used to make costumes on a regular basis for the school, then they wouldn't be able to be donated now to us because, and I'm not sure if the school would be allowed to use them to the sound of it,
because they're not fire retardant.
If you've made it out of sheets, like I can remember making, like, Pocahontas things and out of sheets, and my mother made loads of outfits for the school.
But the sounds of it, you can't do that anymore.
It's all got to be fire retardant and gone through the system.
Like, it's often safety gone wild, haven't it?
We were saying that earlier.
When you go online now to buy all of these safety signs, like, because I do just buy them rather than print them myself.
I do print them, but I tend to buy them.
They're cheap enough.
But, like, there's so many of these signs, like, you know, don't breathe the air.
It may contain oxygen.
It's crazy, like, isn't it?
It's crazy.
So, unfortunately, I think that one would have to go into... we'd have to cut it up, I think, so nobody ever wears it again, with the look of it.
Sad, isn't it?
So, yeah, like, here's another one.
Let's come in.
Oh, I think it's a dodgy one.
Where's it come from?
Wicked costumes.
Okay, we won't go into where it's come from.
Hand wash, do not bleach, flame retardant.
So that one would be okay for the sound of it.
But if there was accessories with that, like a headband, maybe, the headband would have to be fire retardant too.
So if there's been any alterations to that, so, for example, if somebody was to put a bit of bling on it or glitter on it or something, then that would...
If there were any alterations to this now, sewn bits on, we wouldn't be able to take them.
Or anybody made any suits themselves.
So we're going to go through ours now today, and then we know then, as soon as they come in, they've got to be double-checked now.
Because what's this one by year look?
Because we were going to do a rail one by year, and we've got one by year as well.
Keep away from fire, and there's no additional things being sewn on or anything, so that should be okay.
I'll double-check with trading standards what they want.
But that's good news today, you know, that the haters have reported us again and they've failed again.
Because, well, I mean, it doesn't matter, does it?
It doesn't matter if trading standards and health and safety come out and see us, because they like us.
They've already said they like us.
They like what we're doing.
And they've just given us expert advice all the time, like, you could improve this by doing this.
Fantastic.
We'll do it.
You know us.
If we've been given advice, we'll do it.
We're new to it.
We're new to what we do, you know, so whatever we've got to do, we'll do.
We're not going anywhere.
I don't know why people keep trying.
We're not going anywhere.
And I'm still looking for a shop in Caerphilly.
And if one comes up at the right price with the right size, I will take it up tomorrow, because that is what I'm looking to do next year.
I'm looking for a big space in Cardiff or Newport, bigger than this, because we're going to need that in that area.
And if I can afford to do the two in Cardiff and Newport, then I will be doing it.
So you need to get over it, Haters.
You need to get over the fact that I'm here to stay.
I ain't going anywhere.
And all you do is make us better, because you report us to people.
The people come in, they're experts.
They give us experts' advice on how to run our business and how to apply to be a charity and to be charitable better.
So the following time you report us, it's even more or less likely that your complaint is going to be upheld.
So waste of pen and paper, really, innit, guys?
Waste of you emailing stuff.
You know, get on with your own life.
You know, perhaps you'd be as successful as us and as well respected as we are if you put as much effort into your own charity, your own business, your own community.
Your own CIC, whatever else you're doing, charging £4 for fair share food bags, which is ridiculous.
You know, I mean, look at your own selves, guys.
Look at what you're doing.
Yeah?
£4 for a bag of fair share food.
Oh, I'd have a look at that if I were you.
Because you're not doing, you know, that's ripping people off, innit?
Because everybody knows the fair share food comes in for free.
You're going on about us ripping people off.
We're not ripping anybody off.
You know, we're asking people to make a donation if they can, a suggested donation if they can, to help us with our running costs because we're rapidly expanding.
But you're charging £4 for fair share food bags when you know you're picking the food up for free and you know you're not allowed to put a price on it.
It's a suggested donation.
So, you know, I was brought up not to throw stones at glass houses, so maybe you shouldn't.
And you haven't got much credibility of you if you're aligning yourself with people who are being investigated by the Charity Commission and the police.
Which they are.
And paedophiles.
I mean, you ain't going to have any credibility of you, really, if you're aligning yourself with those people.
That's why people like us, our charities, our CICs, our community groups, people in the same boat as us, don't associate with those people.
So, yeah.
Do me a favour, guys.
Can you check everything?
Well, no, you don't need to check everything you bought from us, because most of it is.
Can you just double check that fancy dress?
I give Charlotte a shout now because she's also collecting fancy dress under our name, I think.
So, we need to check that it's all got those fire retardant labels.
And any accessories to it also has to have fire retardant labels.
So, any modifications to any fancy dress outfits, you need to bring a bath to us, okay?
And we just exchange them for something else.
Just exchange them in the store in here, we're not worried.
Swap them for something else.
No problem, guys.
So, yeah.
Thank you to everybody for their support today.
It's been brilliant.
