Right, so I've been toying with the idea of shutting the shop down and selling tickets for people to come in.
Right?
Now the only reason we have the shop open to anyone is because that's my jumper from the house.
I bought that previously, Jayne’s Baby Bank Poe.
The trouble is, once I get going, then I get hot, so I strip off.
And... obviously there.
And I put my jumpers down and people sell them.
Come on.
I'm going to sell them.
So, I have been thinking about it for a long time, shutting the shops down.
Right?
And you've got to book on a certain day to come in the shop.
Okay, the reason I haven't done that yet, because a lot of organisations do that, or they pay a subscription, like the pantry, yeah, to come in.
The reason I haven't done that is because we're here every day, we've got work to do, we get thousands of donations every day.
Even if I say no donations, I still get thousands of donations.
Erm... and... I thought that might be a better idea.
So, you alright?
Yeah, can you like, stick your labels please?
Anywhere?
Stick your labels, those small ones?
No.
Erm, that's alright.
Put them there if you can.
Samson is 24.
Oh, hang on then.
Hang on, yeah, you have first pricing.
Hang on, hang on.
Yeah.
Hang on.
Can we accept a lock?
Hang on then, because I wouldn't have a clue.
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Yeah, you're better off doing that.
That's what you meant to buy.
No, just permission.
You know where they are, lock.
Right, what is that?
Samson S24.
Samson S24.
And a Samson A56.
That's a new one, okay?
No, I won't.
Samson...
A56.
A56.
Okay, thank you.
See, that's what we want.
Nice, efficient, organised customers.
Yeah, ta-da.
Yeah, ta-da.
Nice to see you anyway.
Take care.
Ta-da.
Ah, one of our regular.
She's lovely.
Two phone calls.
Is this now, Noxy?
But at least she's come in and she's told us where they are.
In here.
So we can write it on the front.
So that's good.
So, yes, I was going to do subscription.
Maybe we do subscription in another way.
In the new year, do something else.
I don't know.
Right?
I don't know.
Come in, pay to come in.
However, what I was thinking when I was out there losing my mind because somebody left 40 bags on my doorstep and I knew I had 400 bags to come into because of cash for clothes and a pile of cafe furniture before I even got the trolleys out.
Loads of customers out this morning.
No other shops open, doing any trade.
Everybody queuing to get in hours and I couldn't get in yet.
Right?
What I thought is we've got to get some stuff going.
Because I don't know what's going on here because stuff is breeding.
Right?
Because we're not taking anything in and I'm still getting stuff in.
So I desperately need a warehouse.
If there's anybody out there that wants to finance us for the warehouse, I'd really appreciate it, guys, because...
I don't know.
I just don't know at the moment.
People are desperate for us to recycle stuff.
And it really bothers me because you know recycling is my thing, isn't it?
It's my autism.
That is my spectrum.
I love it.
And I can't do it.
OK?
So anyway, cut a very long story short, waffling again.
What if we do sell a couple of tickets, cheap, like £3, right?
To do fundraising.
And then you get two big, I don't know, IKEA bags.
And it's a supermarket suite.
Nobody else in here, only you.
You come in, supermarket suite.
It'll be everything that's like, I don't know, under £50.
And it won't be from the cabinets because we'll have to unlock them and everything.
And usually the stuff in the cabinets is the dearest stuff in there, the collectible stuff.
But we do a supermarket suite and whoever wins, you can...
We'll apply once, so it'll be like £3.
We'll apply more than once, I suppose.
And then we do it like a raffle basis online or something, pick a number.
So you could have, I don't know, two numbers, £6, it'll cost you.
I always say £3, £3.50, because that's what a pack of nappies cost you.
So that's what I gauge everything on, is what a pack of nappy costs.
Like, there's some people that's doing like, pay £5 to get into their warehouse.
And then fill a bag for a fiver.
But you've got to pre-book, you can't just turn up.
Some days they have, you can just turn up.
But then other days, you can't, you've got to pay the £5 ticket price.
And then you get a bag when you go in.
But the bag is like, a gold-house bag.
Not like our bags, we're like, fill your bag, fill your boots.
You are, fill a baby bath.
There's one by there that we could do that.
Come and fill a baby bath, that'd be cool.
So what do you think?
Sell a ticket.
And then you come in, and if you win, and it's like a supermarket sweep.
What do you think?
I don't know, you might make a mess.
I'm not going to give you like a minute.
Because if I give you a minute, you're going to make a mess and everything is going to fall over.
But if I give you like, two to three minutes, or I don't know, five, I don't really care.
To be honest, because I'm doing it to get stuff going.
But what do you think?
Do you fancy doing a supermarket sweep?
We could do fill a bag for ten.
Come in and take away like, fill a bag for tenner.
Yeah, but I've got to ring fence it like, and the stuff that's fifty quid.
Because like, I can't have people coming in.
Because we will get people that come in.
And then fill it full of like, all the antiques and everything.
And we're like, well we've just lost four hundred and seventy pounds for the sake of a tenner.
When antiques take forever in a day to sell anyway.
But you will always get the price for them.
So, you know, like I know I'll get the price for such and such.
I know I'll get the price for such and such.
But then if it's out, you know, our mothers are not going to want antiques.
They're going to want stuff for the kids and themselves.
I know that, or for the house.
Right?
So what do you think?
I quite fancy doing, um, pay three pound, pick as many numbers as you like.
And then, come in and it's just like, you know the two big Ikea bags.
Just fill it with whatever you want.
And that's your supermarket sweep.
Um, what do you think?
I fancy that idea.
Uh, being Pontypool shop.
Because that's the one I need cleared at the moment.
But it doesn't mean to say that I won't do it in the other shops.
Caerphilly is getting on a nice even keel now.
We're lucky with Caerphilly because some people still don't realise we're there.
So they're not leaving anything.
And I know I've told the other shops not to take in any donations if people turn up.
Because they've already tried that.
Poor Youssef had about 50 bags.
Baby stuff.
Right?
So...
They come in, they say, can you take a few bags?
And then they leave them with 50 bags of baby stuff.
So I've told Fresh and Go and don't take any bags in if they bring them.
Because we've specifically said, no donations.
Because we need to get our donations down.
Because we can't even see what we're doing.
We can't even get in the shops anymore.
Risca.
We might do a Risca as well.
Because Risca is a bit...
Risca is small I see.
So we do need some stuff going on in Risca.
So we could do that.
But definitely Pontypool.
So it would be £3 a ticket.
And then we could have more than one winner.
It don't have to be one winner.
We could have two or three winners.
I'm not bothered.
It depends on how many people participate.
Because if only three people participate.
Then we've only made £9.
So we'll just have one winner.
But if like...
100 people participate.
We've made £300.
We'll send three people up there.
What do you think?
I don't know.
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