Hi guys, we've had loads of lovely donations in.
We've done well today on sale for Monday.
We're doing okay.
We've got booty for staffing.
Absolutely brilliant.
Look, all these now, right, will be weighed.
Booty for paintings.
It'll all be weighed and then it'll be sorted on CCTV in front of senior staff.
They might be new starters with us but the new starter wouldn't go through any of this because if there was a purse or a wallet or something found in there, then we would expect them to hand it in.
And as we know, not everybody is as honest as we are.
Booty for stuff.
Booty for, booty for, booty for.
We've had lovely staffing today.
I'm still going through these bags from GDAS.
Thank you so much.
Booty for staffing here, guys.
We've had some good sales.
However, we've also had...
I've had the hoarders come in as well.
Not for me.
From another guy who was sorting out his books and his war memorabilia.
Now, he's only done two carrier bags but obviously that's massive.
If somebody's got a hoarding disorder, that's absolutely massive.
So yes, we will work with the hoarding teams as well.
But obviously don't turn up at a house volume one go.
Give me notice.
Because I know how much you can get into a place.
People say I'm a hoarder.
I'm not.
Because if somebody comes in and wants to buy it, I let it go.
If somebody says I want to buy that, that, that and that, it goes.
If I was a hoarder, I wouldn't let it go.
But we've had lots of people in today.
That's people interested in the bike.
That have said, you know, just stopped as they're passing and said, oh my god, you can so see it now.
After the last videos I put up.
How crazy and obsessed these people are.
And how greedy they are.
And how jealous they are of you doing what you're doing.
And you can see it.
There's no hiding from it anymore.
They're still arguing amongst themselves.
One of them is not even a charity.
Two of them are not a charity.
But they're still fighting amongst themselves.
Physically, walling on the street.
Fighting amongst themselves.
And one of them is not even a charity anymore.
It's not even functioning as a charity anymore.
But this is why we did it.
We wanted to do this.
We wanted to highlight to you what was going on.
You know, and you couldn't see it.
All you could see was the other party saying, oh, so and so is picking on me again.
So and so is doing this.
So and so is doing that.
And you were like taking teams, you know.
Oh, well, I'm team Hope No Bus CIC.
I'm team Gollum.
You know, I'm team Riskebrum in plastic surgery veterans.
You know, you couldn't see it.
Because you were all like, oh, I'm supporting these.
I'm supporting these.
Oh, these are awful.
These are awful.
You, the public, couldn't see it.
You know, this isn't what I had in mind when I decided to do this on my deathbed when I was very, very ill.
Right.
What I didn't have this idea of a shop and everything else in mind.
Right.
This is not what happened.
What happened was I was going to run a baby bank so that I could get my foot in the door to... I mean, I'm not even a charity yet.
But to highlight to you what these other groups were doing, what they were creaming off the top.
You know, why they're all fighting.
You know, it's not just...
Like I said, and this is what I said, and this is what gave us credibility with the police and the council and the trading standards, I specifically didn't do homelessness to prove a point.
Because I knew they would make some sort of excuse up, look at these, to come and bother me.
We weren't even infringing on what they were allegedly supposed to be doing.
And where do we now?
Ten years down the line and they're still brawling in the street.
And what are we doing?
Trying to make room for this lot.
Because you're all supporting us and not supporting them.
And now we're full of all the stock and everything else.
Oh Christ, imagine if we did have a charity number.
We'd probably run from under all of them, wouldn't we?
We really would.
I don't know what this Winnie the Pooh set is, but it looks fab.
I've got loads of pyjamas in this shop, guys.
We put our pyjama sets, anything between five and ten, depending on what they are.
And...
Oh my God.
It's exhausting just going through these bags every day.
It really is.
It's exhausting.
We do seven days, see?
We don't stop.
So we're doing this seven days and this is off one person.
Well, that's off one person.
There was a pile by the door and some bags.
That was off one person, two bags.
Oh gosh.
Then I had two bags full of the books.
And fair play to the gentleman who was working with this guy.
He carried them in.
So, because he was an older gentleman, he carried them in for me.
They were going over there, I think, to the other charity shops.
But he was like, oh, she's nicer.
She likes her books.
And I could hear him out there.
And I was thinking, oh, he's going to ask me now.
But I was stuck, you know, with something, dragging something in.
And they're going to come back and ask me, I'm going to take his books.
And I'm going to say, yes, please.
Because book holders are the best.
Book holders are the best.
They have the best books because they know what they're looking for.
So, absolutely.
And then they didn't have to walk all the way downtown carrying two bags of books, did they?
You can pull up by here and run stuff in.
Just leave it by there and run off.
You can park by there for an hour.
No, no.
Check what the times are, you.
Might be an hour there, I can't remember.
Over these three hours with your card.
We've got parking, but it's tight.
So by the time you get in there, if you just want to run stuff out, it might not be worth it.
Because it might be better for you, if it's a quick job, just to drop off or grab something, park out by there.
Because we will take... oh no.
Oh no, the bag has given up on me.
The bag.
Little of bags are best for us, guys.
Easier for carrying.
Easier for maneuvering and carrying.
So you carry your bags the best.
I know it's not always the best when you're like...
Sorting stuff looks nice, doesn't it?
It's nice and fluffy.
Or it's a dress, I think.
Dress or trousers, maybe.
Feels nice, anyway.
It's all rooshed on the side, look.
And then our friend that we've just met now...
Well, I met him a couple of weeks ago.
He's been using our shops for a while.
But we were like, what are you doing with all them shoes?
We were going and sending them to...
Where did he say?
No, Uganda.
Gambia is a-going.
And then he said, when I was a child, I didn't have any shoes to go to school with.
And I was like, yep, that's okay.
Don't worry about it.
We'll sort it out, the shoes.
He's gone over to Pontypool.
He had shoes from me last week.
And he bought the bag.
He didn't even ask what was in the bag.
And they were well-worn shoes.
They were ones I'd put down to a pound.
And then, obviously...
Oh, I am dropping this again, have I?
Oh, find them bits now.
I thought that had gone.
And then he had what was left, you know.
Because obviously the pound shoes went straight away, didn't they?
But, yeah, they went.
This bag is gone.
This shoe bag.
Might need to decant it.
So, he took them all.
I think the bags, I put the bags up for ten pound each.
And I, you know, gave it for donation for the two bags.
So that's brilliant, isn't it?
So it's all about helping people as far and as wide as we can.
It's about the recycling of us.
Not the money, not everything else.
It's all about the recycling.
Thank you all for your time today.
Thank you all for popping in to see us.
Oh, thank you for that beautiful doll.
Another beautiful doll we've got.
And it is a weighted one.
Yeah, so I've got stuff to sort.
As you can see.
Better trouble, don't it, guys?