Oh, I've had lovely customers in, guys, but there was one lady that's come in, right?
And she's... I forgot, she bought the Marks and Spencer coat.
The brown one.
Lovely little coat.
I think it was wool blend.
It was really nice, Marks and Sparks.
I need something that can wedge you in there, guys.
A bit, because you're a bit floppy.
You're a bit I've forgotten to give her a raffle ticket.
I chased one guy down the alley.
Wait, wait.
Have a raffle ticket for you.
For the prize draw at the end of the month.
All customers.
Doesn't matter what you spend.
All customers.
And donators, if you're coming in and you're donating stuff, I'll give you a raffle ticket as well, guys.
I don't mind.
Dan I forgot most of yesterday.
And yesterday I was stuck on the phone and I had another lady that came in and she paid.
And thank you very much.
Obviously she could see I was busy.
So thank you for that.
But I forgot to give her a raffle ticket.
The lady who watches us online, you said, and you bought a ball of wool.
I owe you a raffle ticket.
So if you're about calling and going, ready for the end of October and you win, they're nice, aren't they?
I think they go around the stem of your glass.
You put your glass in there, don't you?
And it sits on the bottom of your wine glass.
I think I've only got two.
I might be mowing the car because I haven't emptied the entire car yet.
Trying to help myself out here.
Yeah, I've had lovely customers in.
Customers that usually come to see us in Blackwood and they've started to realise that we're where we are now.
Tenterbann Street we're on because somebody thought it was Clive Street.
So it's lovely to see everybody calling in.
I think people are starting to realise where we are now.
And I've put out some cards.
I only put out 40 cards.
That's all I've had in those boxes was 40.
But I think that's made a difference already.
But the problem is with the cards, like I put in there you've got 10%, an extra 10% where I've posted the cards now.
So you'd get 85 off.
But the problem is, like I was walking around and one gentleman was like, Oh, are you all right?
Because I was posting stuff.
I said, Oh, yeah.
I said, it's just a card.
So we are.
I said where we were from to him and what have you.
So we said thank you.
And he said, and do you take donations?
I said, yes, but we are very full.
But that's the problem now.
So I posted 40 cards and well, I might get 40 customers, 40 leads from it.
That's what they usually say like in business, 40 leads.
The problem is, is I've also got 40 more houses now away that we're here to donate every night.
So do you see where my problem comes in?
And I mean, everybody is donating lovely stuff.
Look, lovely little one off coasters has just come in.
This lady had a lovely items.
You know, it's all lovely stuff.
It's all useful stuff, isn't it?
Look, but it's the amount.
And like I said, we're in limbo at the moment.
Hey, are you all right?
All on offer, but we only take card and contact less.
Yeah, yeah, no problem.
Just looking around to see where you go.
Yeah, quite a bit.
Yeah, tons.
Yeah.
Yeah, everything all on offer.
Yeah, we got tons.
You can see that.
Yeah.
So we've got some lovely customers in.
But don't forget now your raffle ticket.
I forgot they were right in front of me.
So I've got one lady who bought the Marks and Senses coat.
And I got a lady who bought wool yesterday.
And I don't know about Daniel who we are doing.
But pop in and get a raffle ticket off him.
And we'll do it every month to start off with and see how we get on in there.
And then
work boots they are.
They are steel toe caps.
Yes, steel toe caps.
They're lovely.
Yeah.
They're nice ones for good condition too.
Oh, don't tell them.
Just put it in the wardrobe.
That's what I used to do with my son.
Just put it in the wardrobe and then they don't know any different.
We're not a charity shop.
Mine with a baby bank and food bank.
So tell us from the baby bank.
Yeah, yeah, you get some good bargains.
Yeah.
You've got to look, haven't you?
You've got to get the good bargains today.
No problem.
Thank you.
Nice to meet you.
Maybe I shouldn't have good paper, but I'm doing that with a nice chocolate.
When he had one or two in Caerphilly, when we first came here, there was one that was like, oh, he was on it like a whippet.
Like you could see him because he was on bloody something.
And he was, and I was like, right, get out.
He was like, oh, there's loads of stuff in here, loads of stuff in here.
And we didn't, he just moved in.
As you can imagine, there wasn't loads of stuff in here.
It might look like loads to him, but to us, it was like, I mean, six items.
And then we had the other one, didn't we?
That other one, that's a bit of a crackhead, everybody said.
It's a nuisance.
You know, I mean, I'm, I'm fully aware that people don't wake up crackheads and, you know, alcoholics and all the rest of it.
And there's usually a trauma involved, but some people don't help themselves, do they?
You know, like I understand that a lot of people are like very apologetic about they've got a problem.
And it's like, yeah, you don't need to apologize because we know you've got a problem for a reason.
But then some people are just full swing.
And they, they're like, yeah, full swing.
I'm happy in the situation I'm in, like, you know, this was a bit mucky, like I would have been binned elsewhere.
It was, it was very mucky.
It was quite bad.
It was quite bad.
And so there's a white, but we clean them all up and we keep the glasses in, in a tub, give them a wipe over.
And I tend to keep them now because Margaret takes them to Africa and lots of other people take glasses to Africa.
But what I tend to do now is if you know your prescription, write it on a sticker and stick it on the glasses, because that's ideal.
That saves everybody in Africa, trying them all on.
If you can imagine, they probably got like hundreds of glasses to go through and they've got to try them all on because they don't know the prescription do they?
But if you know your prescription and you're donating them in, write it on there.
Because then they go, oh, that's a, that's a plus two.
Who's a plus two?
Right, you come here.
Right, job done in there.
But what I tend to do is I leave the box out now as well, because you'd be surprised how many people in this country, you know, it'll go, oh, I'll have them glasses.
I'm usually doing for a quid, usually doing for a quid, because some have been funded by NHS, some haven't.
Some frames, the designer ones I've put in the cupboard, but these, I just clean them up.
And I love the fact that these are things that would be thrown out by the NHS, but we recycling them.
I love that.
So I tend to put them in a box and I tend to do the cases for a pound.
You know, this case would be a pound now with the cats on, but if somebody needs a case to take them home so they don't get broke, just give them a case and check the glasses in either way.
And if it's a, if it's a more expensive case and check the glasses in because at least it's being recycled.
So don't forget, now we're going to do this.
We're going to do the one online every week.
So don't forget, tag your friends, because if you tag your friends, you'll get, what's this?
I got a drawing pin by you.
I want to save that little drawing pin because I always need them, don't I?
Because bits and bobs, there was another one.
I got two.
And then I just put the cleaning gloves in the box.
I think our box for Africa is in the pound shop and we just check them up there.
And if people want to take glasses, they can, you know, I'm not bothered like people to just try them on.
There's another one by your luck.
Again, the case needs a wipe.
I've got a nice, nice pair of glasses in there.
If somebody wants them for a pound, they'll have them.
They're quite nice.
They haven't been worn.
The frames are very nice on them ones, but they're not designer.
So pound box.
We don't mess around.
They were quite dirty.
And these have obviously come off a lady that's passed away.
So don't forget now, if you're a carer or you're a nurse, right?
Cause look, you can see that I've only wiped them over with something.
You can see how they still got a residue on them.
If you're looking after somebody, don't forget to give their glasses a wash.
If they're bed hidden, it's the little bits in there, you know, the little bedside manner bits, things that get left off care plans.
Like that'll bother them all day if they haven't got good sight because their glasses are all manky.
Just little things in there, you know, if you're caring for somebody.
That's why I think all nurses and doctors and anybody in the medical profession should have to be a carer first, because unless you're a carer or a care assistant, then how do you know the basics of caring for somebody?
You know, I met a physio once and physio usually come in, take the patient off, they go, come back.
No shade to physio because they're on, you know, they got multiple patients to see a day in the hospitals.
But then I had another one and he was tying up a lady's shoes and he sorted her out and he did something.
I can't remember, did a drink and what have you and off he went and then he did another patient and then he was doing something else.
Totally different bedside manner.
And I said to him, I can't remember how the conversation came about, but he said he was a carer before he went into physio and I said, oh, you can tell, you can tell because he just had that.
You can be the most academic person in the world, but doesn't mean to say you go any common sense or bedside manner.
And that's what they lack today on these wards.
I think it's bedside manner.
Caring is a profession in its own right.
And it, you know, without carers, this country would fall apart overnight without the care system, without the greens doing their job to help the nurses think about work you'd have to do.
So caring should be class now, more as a vocation like nursing is and they should get paid because you are working with pressure source and you are working with skin integrity and you're working with lots of other things, bowel complaints, bladder complaints,
you are monitoring specific things.
And while I think nurses should get paid more, I also think carers should be paid more and they should be putting bands as well because carers work really hard.
It's not just about turning up, getting somebody out of bed, putting them on a commode, you know, because some carers are like, well, is something wrong with this?
You really need to be checked, you know, and they'll ring up the GP and they'll say, no, no, this issue runs bad today or so and so is bad today.
And they go above and beyond.
Are you all right?
It's all yeah, it's all on offer, but we only take card and contact less just for you to be aware.
All right.
So yeah, I think, um, I think, I think they should be more supported carers and I think there is a, um, I haven't got a governing body like nurses, but they've got, um, a carer's charter with a council.
They'll bring up together.
But carers should be supported more.
I've done lots of jobs, high paid, low paid, badly paid, not paid.
Um, so my favorite job job was the lowest paid job I ever did.
Well, this is the lowest paid job I've ever done because I'm not being paid.
Um, but the lowest paid job was me as a carer in the community.
We are half price mine.
Don't forget we're on offer.
Yes.
For that one.
I'm not sure.
Is it on the side there with it?
Yeah.
Go on.
Have a look at it guys.
You know more better than me expect.