Notice anything different?
Sorry.
Don't know if they are all the teddies I've just slammed them over.
Oh, right, Anne just asked for something, didn't she Anne?
What did you just ask for?
You asked for Barbie?
I didn't think it was Barbie unless it's miniature Barbie.
Was it this?
I don't think, if that's Barbie...
That?
And that I think, wasn't it?
I don't know if it's all there.
That's the trouble with the toys, unless they're on one particular shelf.
They're a nightmare.
So, we've got shelves in the donation centre for these, proper shelves.
But obviously we can't get them in here and we can't get them in the donation centre.
So, let me know if you want those Anne.
I don't know if that's what you wanted.
I don't know if there's anything else to go with it.
Probably walls lock, some sort of... Oh no, does that go on there?
If you can send me a picture of what you think should have been on there, then I can...
We'll have a rummage for it, you know.
Right, so...
More stuff has gone.
Okay, might not look like it to the untrained eye.
Right?
Might not look like it.
Another wash has been done, so I'll get that out now.
Right, I'm shuffling now because of my knee.
Shuffling, shuffling, shuffling.
Right.
Right, so, what's gone?
You can use other videos for reference.
It was all there this morning.
Five bags gone.
It might even be more than five because some people are only taking a couple of things in their bags.
Right, so, I still haven't gone through to there.
I've worked this trolley, put all the DVDs back in there.
That is all now filler bag for a fiver.
Toys.
Jigsaw bag, I've got one left.
I've just got that one together.
The other one's sold.
This is all filler bag for a fiver.
So we're still on four trolleys.
Right?
Because we've got that one up there as well, we'll do that filler bag for a fiver because it seems to go quicker.
And then...
But I think we'll be able to whittle it down better now.
And make sure people are filling the bags.
Sorry guys, you alright?
Make sure they're filling the bags for a fiver because we want these gone.
That one.
So we still need one for the records.
Are they going from there?
Let me know if you don't think they're going from there because we'll just stack them up in there somewhere.
This one is primarily toys and some other stuff.
That's do that filler bag for a fiver.
Notice anything else that's gone?
Now...
I think Loretta shifted two or three of these bags yesterday because they were in the way.
So we haven't sold the fifteen of these bags.
But we've sold a couple.
And additional stuff as well.
So...
We'll change the signs now and we'll do filler bag for a fiver.
Filler carrier bag for a fiver.
Definitely get those three trolleys out this week.
And the records.
And then what we'll try and do...
Try and use the Iceland... not Iceland, the farm foods trolleys that they give us.
And then we'll run the test ones back up.
And then we'll try and get at least one trolley back up and this sort out tomorrow.
But all of this filler bag for a fiver.
I don't care if they've got a board game under their arm.
Okay?
I don't care.
I don't care.
I'm back on children's jigsaws.
Right, this thing.
I'm just trying to find the bits.
And then I think it's all to do with that.
But I've also got some... is that part of it?
Yes, I think that's part of it.
And we've got the bits for this.
Because people are now picking up for Christmas.
I've got a bag of balls on the go.
I've got a bag of toot toot on the go.
And mid toot, as we just say, mid toot.
This bag of utensil.
I've got two lovely children's trainers, but one of each.
Found them.
I might pull them in one bag.
All those sacking caps.
This looks like it's all to do with this thing.
But I don't think we've got... oh, we have.
So we've got a complete jigsaw.
See, they just take time in these bags.
Just take somebody who's got time and energy to do them, haven't they?
And we haven't always, have we?
You know.
But that's what recycling is about.
It's taking the time to be conscientious about what you're doing.
See, if we had a van with a tail lift now, we could've gone down to one of our friend's car boots and we could've gone wheel the trolleys on and then wheeled them out.
On the left and said, Fill a bag for a fiver, we're going to the burger van soon.
When we come back, pay Darren.
Couldn't we?
We could've said that.
But of course we need a van now.
But it is all starting to come together, I think, guys.
We're getting there slowly.
Slowly but surely, aren't we?
Slowly but surely, we will get there.
We could probably do another trolley of toys, but I'd like to get one back up to test scores.
They're good enough to loan them to us.
And what we'll have to do is just, because we haven't got so much, well we have got big stuff because we're going to pull it out, but you can still get the trolleys there.
You can still get three or four there if you push them in there.
We'll have a go now.
We'll have a go.
See what we can get done.
It's one of those days where I've had to pull everything out to try and put it back tidy.
It's one of them days.
And those flat boxes get on my nerves, so I've started selling them off.
We need deep square boxes.
That's all we need.
Oh, he's off something I've just put over there.
I'm trying to just pull everything, like, in one place, you know.
I found a nice basket, which could come in handy for him to fill the basket before he goes in the bag.
That's what I'm thinking.
So I've seen that other piece in that bath, too.
So we have got that.
So I might get some little bags together now, go through that one, see if I can chuck them in there, and then do this for the next week, fill a bag for a fiver on the toys for next week, and then we can tackle some other problem areas that we got that's built up with itty-bitty toys,
and if we just let them go, fill a bag for a fiver, start again, and then we'll get them all back.
It's never a complete loss, is it?
Because people just re-donate it to you.
I've had to turn down loads today.
Absolute tons today, guys.
People have messaged me left, right, and center, and I've had to say no.
I'm really sorry, guys, but it's just the way it is, you know?
Just the way it is.
Perhaps we'll pay some of our friends who've got bigger establishments for visit have a training day.
I had beans on toast.
The bread from the toot.
I could live on toast, but don't agree with me.
But I really enjoyed it.
Anything on toast.
Curd jam.
I'd like to try that.
Fortnum & Mason's Petal Jam.
Have anybody tried that?
I bet it's expensive.
Patty.
Philadelphia with hot honey.
Mmm, nice, nice.
Philadelphia with a little chunk of bramston on the top.
That's nice, not to overpower it.
So, yeah, I'll...
I'll crack on.
I wish I had the stepladder because I'd have probably done the teddies by now.
I'll call them up.
But I'm looking behind the...
pile of doom that's behind there, and it does look like there's toys behind there as well.
But I think we'll focus on getting what we can.
And then any of the books is not collectable or First Edition Children's.
It's just going down on the free pile.
So, providing we don't have torrential weather, we could still crack on doing the books there and then you haven't got anybody pulling them all out while you're in the shop.
Might do, fill a bag for £2.50 all week up there in the pound shop and then that'll bring it right down ready to go up there and tidy it up again.
Because the thing is, it only takes one phone call from Cash for Clothes to say come and get all of this stuff we've had enough of it for us to be swamped in a room again full of cash.
You know, and we've got other rooms full of blooming clothes anyway, haven't we?
So, perhaps we'll pop and see some of our partner.
We'll perhaps have a training day, is there?
We'll go out and we'll see how other big warehouses do it.
Because we need to...
The shop model and sorting and storing isn't working anymore for us because of the volume of stock that we've got.
So now we need warehouses and shops I think.
I think that's what we need.
And I'm wondering wherever we go...
We tried it.
We tried it in Blackwood where we just put all the expensive stuff in Blackwood.
It did work but then Blackwood failed.
The high street failed in Blackwood because it went downhill because people who signed contracts for shops I know my friends there were two or three of them signed for shops and they just gave the keys back after a month.
They were like, no chance.
I'm not putting myself in this position, you know.
So maybe it was just the area, you know.
I'm thinking five year plan now.
And my friend who runs a charity said maybe do what cancer research is doing.
Step away from the shop model.
But then I find it easier to keep Risca tidy because it's smaller.
And we got an option.
But to keep it tidy.
It works in Risca because we uplift it.
Or we only take in there what we want to put in there.
But I think that's where the van would come into play then.
Proper looting van.
Because we can say Caerphilly is short of non-novels and softbacks or whatever you guys would call them.
Can you take softies and non-novels?
I need 14 of these books and I need 2 crates of this book.
And then we can say, like we were saying, I need teddies down Risca.
I can take 4 bags of teddies Caerphilly.
And we were doing that, weren't we?
But this time of the year we always have an influx.
It's like spring.
We always have an influx of donations because people are spring peening in there.
Of course everybody's up their attics now and they're in their attic and they're like let's get all the baby stuff down.
Get in their Christmas stuff down in there.
Or in their sheds and things.
And like Alan from Ragamuffin said earlier, one of our good friends, he said which gives us good advice as well, car booters, they don't want to store it for next year so they'll be bringing in carfuls of stuff.
And you know, we appreciate it.
Don't get me wrong.
But we need a bigger wear out operation now because the shops can't cope with it.
And thank you to the customers because you're coming in and you're doing your best.
I can see you're doing your best.
You really are.
I mean I've got customers stepping over me and my blooming piles of whatever.
I'm one of those people and maybe it's because of my learning difficulties, maybe it's because I've got to have it all out to see it, to do it.
So like I've had to tip these bags out to sort it.
But it's not ideal, is it, to do in the middle of a shop?
You know, that's where the warehouse would come into play.
But I'm wondering do we need a sorting warehouse and storage warehouses?
I'm thinking five year plan now.
If we're not all at blooming war and blooming rack and ruin in the next five years, blooming heck.
It's awful out there and all the crimes I keep getting reported.
You know, I keep seeing being reported on things.
There's so many violent crimes going on.
There really is.
Just laugh at them, I do.
Just laugh at them.
Unless they come here for a fight and then they get an hammer in them.
Just laugh at them.
We need to be fighting people all the time.
More fool them, they're the ones that ruin their own lives, these miserable people.
They make themselves miserable and they'll bring you down.
Not worth it.
So I reckon I think there was two bags out the front that were five pound.
And I reckon Loretta moved about three or four at the back.
Right, so four, five, six.
So I reckon it's six.
So I reckon half of those five pound bags are gone, Sammy.
I know we got stuff in the trolley but as I've been going around and finding bits, like there was books there and what, as I'm going around I'm chucking stuff in the trolley and making sure it's the right thing.
But when I went through those trolley I mean, some of those trolley have been in there now, well over two to three months.
There was all sorts in there.
DVDs, drinking cups, there was teddies in there, there was glasses cases in there.
It was like, we need a big box for the glasses now in the glasses cases because we collect them up for Africa.
I take false teeth too.
Vicky never knew if I was joking about that she's like, I can't be doing boxes of false teeth Jane.
They will take false teeth.
We recycle anything.
Make sure they're clean before they come in please, give them a brush.
So we need a box now, like that box maybe.
Screw it down for glasses for Africa, or pound each because the customers will come in and take them.
And glasses cases.
We need that as well because we did always have a box here for Africa and I don't know it's gone now.
But a lot of customers will buy a pair of glasses, they come in, they try them on.
And if we can get one of those...
I'll tell you what would be funny.
Get one of those charts that the opticians do have and we'll put that on the wall.
And then they can come in there and they can try the glasses and whatever ones that don't get used.
And if you know your prescription do me a favour, write it on a sticker on the glasses because if you don't you'll just get box falls and box falls out in Africa and they got to try them all on.
So if you know your prescription write it on the glasses.
Got some good sales today guys.
Got some good sales.
Got some stuff gone and that's the main thing in here.
The thing is now because I've like cleared out the you know, because I've cleared out the arbor dashery rail look I've sold a rug.
Somebody saw it on a video.
Sold a rug.
Oh I did You can find your Christmas clock too.
And I think I don't know if it's still here.
I'll have to have a look.
Because I put it aside.
It was with my bag but it was behind everything.
The lady Our lady from Blackwood.
She lives in Lambradack that asked for the Christmas clock.
I found it.
But I don't know if it's still here now.
It might be in a red box.
Or it might still be there.
So we can bring that home.
I don't know how well he's done in I'm going to have a Caerphilly and a chance to look.
But I've got tons and tons of children's books for free.
Come and get them.
Bring a carrier bag guys.
Pontypool shop.