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Screenshot everything, see?
All the bloody haters.
Is that a screenshot?
Screenshot?
She's screenshot.
Send it to the police.
So yeah, we've got the one up, look.
So I think every time we need a shop we're gonna need at least one to two sets of racking for the bigger items at least.
We need to budget that into our costs.
So if we get a shopping Caerphilly tonight, we budget in the costs of that shop to make sure we've got hot water boxes, tables and chairs, which we got anywhere we get loads of them.
And, you know, the standard things that we need then.
We know we need the dressers and all but we can usually get them.
They come quite quickly, don't they?
But yeah, I think we're gonna have to at least have two bays of racking per shop from now on.
It's ideal, see, for the prams, like that's only small racking, but then we've got two massive prams in there because they're slow movers.
They're ideal, like, so I think this is gonna alleviate our accumulation problem that we get here.
And then what we're gonna do is get some of the pull-out rail, pull-out things you have in the supermarkets.
You know, you pull them out to stop people going past and then that'll be our sorting area.
So then because we need to get rid of the stock, rather than us having a sorting area with everything stacked up in it, somebody can walk, a customer can walk past and go, oh, oh, can I have that off the rack?
And we can still sell it then.
So it'd be easier for us, but at least we would have a sorting area too, which is what trading standards and environmental health want us to have.
So yeah, it's looking good, isn't it?
150 these costs.
We asked for a discount but he said no, he's got loads of people interested.
He did have two sets.
I said I'd bought the two sets we sold out to somebody else.
But yeah, so 150 we paid for these out of the money we've raised so far.
But we need them, I think.
And especially if we go... we're looking at warehouses when we go down to Cardiff and Newport.
But we went to Derby's.
Derby's is lovely, fair play.
But I don't think Derby's warehouse would be big enough for us.
I think we'd need double the size of Derby's for Cardiff.
If we're just gonna do the one shop.
I mean we could do two small ones, Cardiff.
We could do one one side, one splot side and then one sort of Ely Barry side, couldn't we?
We could do it that way.
But Newport, we're looking for a big one.
We looked at Quicksave.
I told you Quicksave would have been ideal, wouldn't it?
It would have been fab.
All our car park space, we could have done car boots and we could have let mothers come in for free, like, you know, in the summer and do car boot for free.
Would have been fab, wouldn't it?
Somebody allowed that as a building plot.
I don't go wrong with the size, like, for the price.
If we had the money, I'd get it, like, you know.
So, yeah, it should alleviate the problem area there.
This wall, they're gonna put shelves on the wall.
So those shelves will go, so we'll have either them for more of the nice ornaments or to even store the ornaments that side so they don't get broken.
The tray system is working well, but the stock in the tray with the house clearance boys and the bigger donators, but they're not getting emptied quick enough.
I mean people are coming in taking bags full out all the time, but you know what it's like.
You know, we're popular, like, with the donations and we so... and we do say if you want to give them to somebody else, you can, but nobody else will take some of the stuff.
Like, we'll take it and it might sit there for two months and then somebody go, oh, I've been looking for one of them.
And we'd rather do that, you know that.
We'd rather people rehome it and use it for something for a couple of pence towards our running costs than us have to skip or crush anything or recycle anything.
Before recycling, we do have it get used for the purpose it is.
So I think, it's fab, I think this is gonna... what's that gonna take?
About half way there, so I don't know if we get another full bay of racking in.
We might have to turn it if we wanted a full bay of racking.
But yeah, I think this is gonna alleviate quite a few problems, because even if we can't get the stock out, we can still stack three crates there, look on top of each other and get one or two on the front because it's so wide.
So yeah, that was a good find this week.
So thank you to Des and Jeff for picking it up.
They were messed around a bit with the guy, you know, didn't turn up till four and they were down there from about... well three I think they were down there from.
The guy said about three, half three.
But there we are.
So they've picked that up for us and did us a good pick-up price as well obviously.
So yeah, if we get that up.
Now I don't know if we're gonna get it filled today, but we'll be able to shift a lot more stuff.
Maybe put the bigger furniture on the top.
So we might need a safety bar in the middle, we'll see what our environment will say.
Or we stock like that.
I know it's got to be shrink-wrapped on a pallet.
So shrink back to a pallet or something.
So we wouldn't be putting stock up on the third one because it'd be too much of a nuisance for us to deal with.
It would be big items that would only be moved now and again.
But those two lots of shelves there, we're gonna get lots of stuff in.
You know, it's like mugs.
Loads of people pick up mugs, but they're slow movers.
You know, people will pick up three mugs here, four mugs there, like you know.
But at least they're getting recycled and used.
So, yeah, keep your eye out for racking for us guys.
You see any industrial racking like this, tag us in it now because it can be taken apart like that.
So we can store it until we get the next shop.
But we are actively looking for a shop now.
If we get one, we'll be in there overnight.
Do you know that?
That's why I ordered 20 of the rails when they were on offer from Wayfair.
Because I thought, well, we'll have five at the top shop.
Because in the spring they can get more out.
We could do with five down here, especially we get them out on the drive now once we get that gazebo up.
And then we'll have 10 brand new ones for the next shop then that we're looking at.
So as long as it's got running water, it's a sealed unit, running water and a toilet, we can work with that.
We can work with anything else.
So if you see anything, tag us.
But obviously we want it as cheaply as possible.
So we've got to pull all this by year today.
But the painting job, I've nearly finished the big painting jobs now.
But then we can move everything up a bit.
And then because this will be gone, we can move everything up.
And then we got a bigger area for the children and the baby bank.
Because the baby bank and the children, they won't pay the rent because we let a lot of it go for free.
But the bric-a-brac is what makes the money.
This is what makes our money is the clothes and the bric-a-brac.
They are our rent makers, you know.
So it's the charity shop part of it rather than the baby bank side of it that we make the money from.
So yeah, if we can shunt everything up a bit, we will.
The books are the next issue we've got.
Somebody said about sending them for pulp.
I know I'd rather let them go with books first.
But we're having a lot of book traffic.
Because of course, if the house clearance boys do a house clearance, and the chances are most people got about 200 to 300 books in their house, at least, haven't they?
So if they do two in a day, that's 600 books a day.
Alan is taking quite a few back and forth the community libraries.
And we've got a few other community projects that'll have books off us.
But yeah, we are stacking up with books.
We don't know whether to get a metal shed outside, and have a community library outside.
Or sort out a situation in here.
Some sort of shelving or something.
We're going to get the shoes sorted first.
So we'd be able to get quite a few shoes on there now.
And spaced out better.
Once we go this wall down.
I think they were going to put it on that side as well.
But I might not have anything on this side.
We'll see how many we can get on there.
And go through that.
It'll free up them.
But we'll have to see because the books are moving slowly.
They're going out.
I mean, we got leaders and things that come in.
And they literally like if they if we know they're a reader, we like take 20 for a pound, like, you know, and they're like, Oh, thank you.
And they but of course, they bring them back.
So you're still getting them back.
They're only sort of in people's houses for a limited amount of time in there.
So, oh, you are going to go now because you're a customer.
