Yeah, so we've been busy today.
Like I said, we've lost about 300 items.
I don't know about that cage because I didn't realise there was textiles in there.
So we'll have to have a feel of that tomorrow and see what it's like.
Might be more than 300 items.
Plus it's the disposal of those items that's damaged because we pay for our disposal as and when.
We have a standing sort of pick up.
We're on a bag system.
Erm, but we don't tend to do clothes because we tend to put them in the pound shop.
And what tends to happen is we do fill a bag for a fiver, fill a bag for a 250, fill a bag for a pound until it's right the way down and then whatever's left we put in the rag bins which we've got permission to do.
Erm, so,
we'd have to pay for disposal of these now.
So we'll have to go and have a feel of what we're going to be putting in for next month.
Anyway,
I can't just take them down the tipsy because we're classed as a CICU so we can't just do that.
So I'll have to get a receipt for that.
We've video of course damaged and you know, the ones I've put in the rags, I haven't encountered them.
Erm, you know, because
Alan's here, the wet one's really bad.
But, oh no, there is little, there's little text that we've just removed a bit like there.
Erm, so, I think we'll have to go through those as well because they did feel, it got a bit like that.
Is it damp or is it cold or is it just my hands?
No, I don't know.
Erm, but we've done it now.
So he was a bit like, he'd started it but he's got two speeds then slow and stop.
And erm...
My mum said she'd go but she'd have to get it upstairs and they aren't looking to get up there so I said we're going to have to do that Monday because we had to wait in this morning because we've got this shower being put in now.
Erm, it should be a lot easier.
And, I said oh, I'll go over there Monday because Monday's quiet anyway.
The weather won't bring us there so it's not like we're going to be packed out in Caerphilly but tomorrow now I've got to go Caerphilly because I've got a new starter.
Which will help us along that well because, you know, we need to spread out again now.
I just don't know where it comes from.
I really don't.
Anyway, like I said, we need our weight ourselves.
I haven't really chased up any of the funding because I don't know where to put it so I might have to start chasing it up.
There's a lot of places coming up, a lot of shops, a lot of things like that but we really need to chase up the funding now.
So yes, if we can have some volunteers in, that would help us a lot.
But I think we'll do a £10 voucher for all of our regular customers, you know.
Tomorrow only, don't turn up in three weeks time.
We don't need to do that much because we can't, right?
Because by then we'd do something completely different.
It's to get rid of a pile of stuff so that when we've got to go in and pull it all out, give it a move, give it a dust, pull it all back because we're at that stage now I think it needs to be clean.
And I need to check if it's leaked anywhere else.
I mean, they're the main areas that we can see but I need to get into the corners of places and see if we've had any more leaks.
Which is a bummer.
But there is no filler bag for a fiver now so there is no more pound shop items.
There is a bit of bric-a-brac up there but there is no pound shop items.
So none of those closed.
I didn't realise we still had that cage there so Daniel will sort out the rest of them now this week and we'll probably just put them up for bins for now.
Or we'll sell them off out the front.
And all the three lads came in earlier and said, oh we've seen you selling these April bag things.
I said, yes, the clothes from the bags.
So they said, can we have a look in the bags?
I said, yeah go on, climb up to my neck.
And he was like, yeah if you want.
I said, just unwrap the bags.
And they said, and what would you do for the bags?
And I think he had seven left.
So we said, oh fifty for the loft.
And they took them.
So bargain.
And bargain.
So we've got no airport bags left.
They were brilliant.
But oh my gosh, they were so stressful because they're so big.
I was like, what are we going to do with all these suitcases?
And I couldn't not open them because I don't know what was in them.
It could have been something going off in them, couldn't it?
So I was like, oh I'm going to have to go through them.
We've had some good stuff out of them, fair play.
And we didn't pay for them.
They were gifted to us.
And they were dropped off to us as well, which is the other thing.
Because I mean, it would take me forever in the car.
So thank you so much for doing that.
I think I've got a house clearance being dropped off tomorrow somewhere.
Somewhere in the universe is being dropped off tomorrow.
And I think I've got somebody else dropping some stuff off as well.
I don't know whether to sell off all the pound clothes in Caerphilly because we've only got those eight rails though.
Because I've had a good clean out underneath and sold them off in mystery boxes.
I don't know whether to do a filler bag for a fiver in Caerphilly.
Get rid of them and then we'll just put the designer clothes up.
Because we've got so many designer clothes now.
We might steer away from doing pound clothes and I know that's going to get some of you.
But I just hang all the room from guys.
And it takes, the amount of work it takes to put them up steamer and put a size cube on them and hang them up.
And it don't sound a lot.
But when you have as many of us, it does.
You know, I'm better off doing them as a job lot really and selling them off to resellers and bagging them.
And saying ten pound a bag.
I really am like ten pound a black bag full.
And I mean we ram them.
And then just keep all the good ones out in and just do like three pound fifties and up now.
Because they've just taken up so much time.
And like, you know, it took up an old floor didn't it in Pontypool.
And it's taken up an old side of the shop.
Or half of the shop.
Well it's not even that, it's more than half.
It's like three quarters of the one side of the shop in Caerphilly.
To put the pound clothes, you know, when I could be putting the boutique clothes out.
Which is what I think most people are looking for now.
They're not really looking for the pound clothes anymore.
They just have one rail of pound clothes.
And there's so much to maintain because there's so many pound clothes.
I think we're better off selling them off as a bag.
And I don't like doing that, you know that.
But I'm better off doing that.
I'm happy to do them like...
The other thing was, like the vintages, you know, we were selling them on the vintages.
And the fuss and bother are just for a pound item.
Or they favour like a pound shirt.
And it's like, it's in your favourites and it's up for a pound.
Buy it.
And we've got on there three for two.
So I just think, oh, you know, is it worth the arsehole?
Just for two pound, three pound on the vintage arseholes.
And getting the vintage people to do that.
Or are we better off getting them to concentrate on the five and ten pound items.
Which they probably are.
So I think that's what we're going to be doing from now on.
So if you're looking for cheap clothes.
I think they're going to be in bags.
To get them going quicker.
That's the way we're going to do it guys.
And I've got to get hold of the company that's going to be putting out the bins for us as well.
Because, oh my god, that's going to take forever that is now.
Because we've got to sort those bins out.
Where you don't need to close to.
Which I didn't want to do.
But we just can't keep up with volume.
You know, I've got to be honest.
We just cannot keep up with the volume of stuff we're getting in.
And people will say, well why?
Why do you keep taking it?
Well the reason we keep taking it is because we're passionate about recycling.
The other reason is if I don't take it.
It could end up in landfill.
Which I don't like.
And number three.
I've got an alternative now.
Which will raise the CIC and the baby bank loan money again.
So, job done.
It just means I've got to help sources to another company.
That's all.
To do it for me.
Which I didn't want to do.
Because I'm such a control freak.
I wanted to do it all myself.
But at some stage you've got to start delegating them now.
You know, I can't do everything myself.
You know.
My mother would say, you've said all this stuff about me.
You've said all this stuff about me.
I'm like full delegation match.
No, they've been good.
They've helped me a lot.
Fair play.
Because they're not in the best of health themselves.
But they've helped us loads with us.
Because we've had so many problems with these leaks.
And they're big leaks.
And we haven't had any sudden.
And any break in the weather.
To dry anything out.
So it's been a right...
A right nuisance.
So, there we are guys.
But yeah.
That's where we're at now.
Is I don't think we're going to be having pound clothes items in the shops anymore.