With Christmas rapidly approaching at our kids school and our church we have been involved in Operation Christmas Child which sends packages of gifts to those who cannot afford them each Christmas.
The other day I noticed somebody post in a thread somewhere, I can't remember who, about being unemployed in the lead up to Christmas. This got me thinking and while it is only on a small scale I figured I can at least brighten up one person's Christmas. So here is the
'Have a years shaving on me' Christmas PIF for the unemployed.
The package will contain:
All these items will be shipped to your door, hopefully in time for Christmas. The obvious oversight is aftershave or cologne but shipping these by airmail is unfortunately problematic.
This is going to be a PIF built on trust. The rules are as follows but obviously some will be impossible for me to 'police', I'm appealing to your better nature to be honest about these things.
I realise that the winner may already have some of this stuff and/or you may not like one of the components and/or circumstances may get even tighter and you may want to liquidate what is a collectible vintage Gillette. Once you receive the prize it is yours and you can do with it what you will, use, PIF, sell, whatever. I hope nobody enters to get the stuff and flip it to make a buck - this is up to you though and on your conscience.
If the winner would prefer another razor rather than the #58 we can talk about it and see what I have available at the time.
Happy shaving and wishing you a blessed and joyous Christmas!
The other day I noticed somebody post in a thread somewhere, I can't remember who, about being unemployed in the lead up to Christmas. This got me thinking and while it is only on a small scale I figured I can at least brighten up one person's Christmas. So here is the
'Have a years shaving on me' Christmas PIF for the unemployed.
The package will contain:
- Vintage Gillette British #58 Set (more pics of it here)
- Edwin Jagger Medium Super Badger Brush with stand (used for about six months)
- 100 Astra Superior Platinum DE blades
- TOBS St James Collection Luxury Shaving Cream
All these items will be shipped to your door, hopefully in time for Christmas. The obvious oversight is aftershave or cologne but shipping these by airmail is unfortunately problematic.
This is going to be a PIF built on trust. The rules are as follows but obviously some will be impossible for me to 'police', I'm appealing to your better nature to be honest about these things.
- Entry is open to any B&B member who is unemployed.
- If between entering and the draw and win please let me know when I contact you - the winner must be unemployed at that time too.
- Enter by posting - 'I'm in' in this thread. If this is too embarassing PM me and I will post a proxy entry for you. I'm not trying to make people feel bad.
- Entries close 5pm AEDT on 11 November [new earlier date which will ensure delivery before Christmas] (see time in Canberra here). This should allow postage which will arrive before Christmas.
- All entries will be assigned a number and a winner chosen by random.org number generation
I realise that the winner may already have some of this stuff and/or you may not like one of the components and/or circumstances may get even tighter and you may want to liquidate what is a collectible vintage Gillette. Once you receive the prize it is yours and you can do with it what you will, use, PIF, sell, whatever. I hope nobody enters to get the stuff and flip it to make a buck - this is up to you though and on your conscience.
If the winner would prefer another razor rather than the #58 we can talk about it and see what I have available at the time.
Happy shaving and wishing you a blessed and joyous Christmas!
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