[Vivienne]

R1 DJ Greg James wants listeners to send any unwanted buys to him at R1 HQ.

For example, if you are out & about, and come across the "buy one, get one free offers", you can send the second one to Greg.

I believe he will be sending all the stuff received to Charity. R1, Yalding House, 152-156 Great Portland Street, London, W1 4DJ.

Act now! Do some good this Xmas!

[Yudster]

First I would want to know which charity the stuff was going to.

[Vivienne]

I don't think this has actually been decided yet, Yuds. He was kind of just getting it together on Saturday!

[foot-loose]

It sounds like a blue peter appeal.

[Andy B]

The whole point of a buy one get one free offer is you buy one for your friend/relative/secret santa and you get the other one. why would you want to give it away? Worst case senario you can give it to someone else and save money.

[Vivienne]

I think Greg is just counting on people actually willing to be kind! I think it's a very nice thought.

[ladbroke]

What a great idea, I live on my own (my son stays with me some of the time), and quite often I dont need two of whatever it is on offer, it'd just go off. Just dont think many people would be prepared to pay the postage of the stuff to R1 HQ.

[Vivienne]

Well, it shouldn't be much in postage if you only send down a very small amount of stuff. I'm sending a small box next Monday, and it shouldn't cost much at all.

[ladbroke]

Would be better if he could get a supermarket chain or two on side, so you could just drop your un wanted stuff in a special bin when leaving the store (non perishable obviously)

[Vivienne]

hmmm... not so sure about this, ladb. Would it all actually reach R1.

[ladbroke]

Tesco or Sainsburys wouldn't want the bad publicity of stealing charity donations!! Only problem I could see would be the randomness of the hamper of gifts-2.5kg of potatos, and a radox shower gel........ be like harvest festival on acid

[Vivienne]

Yep, I know what you mean about Tesco and Sainsbury's. I don't think Greg is concerned about the randomness. Even a tube of toothpaste would do. As Greg was saying on Saturday, do you really need umpteen tubes of toothpaste.

[MK Chris]

It wouldn't be Tesco or Sainsbury's (as in either the corporations or the boards of said corporations) stealing it; it'd be the staff, and most of them don't give a stuff what bad publicity they get.

[Vivienne]

If I worked in a Tesco, I would care what bad publicity would come about.

[ladbroke]

Lots of people will argue that they do need the toothpaste as it doesn't go off, and will last for ages til they do use it. More useful would be distributing excess food items on BOGOF, but the logistics of doing so would be impossible.

[Andy B]

Who buys (proper) food and toothpaste as an xmas present? I thought he wanted gifts? I still say stuff him, he's probably too lazy to do his own xmas shopping so he's doing this appeal so he's got stuff to give to his mum and dad.

[Vivienne]

I buy toothpaste and soap and shower gel as Xmas pressies. It's not that unusual.

[ladbroke]

Didnt realise it was an xmas appeal specifically (sorry if I didnt read the post properly), but more of just an appeal in a harvest festival type way. Sure lots of care homes/shelters etc would benefit from almost any BOGOF offer.

[Vivienne]

I'm sending down a shower gel, hairclasps, and hair bands.

[Andy B]

I buy toothpaste and soap and shower gel as Xmas pressies. It's not that unusual.

Anyone who got me showergel for xmas would be on the receiving end of a verbal tongue lashing from me. If the showergel is part of some gift set thing from a decent company then fine, it'll pass muster from maybe an impoverished cousin who's at uni, but if it's a bloody Lynx Africa set then they can sod off with it.

As for Toothpaste, for xmas, really, why? If this were the third world maybe I could understand that but it's not as if toothpaste is hard to find or expensive is it? It's a necessity rather than a luxury.

[Yudster]

All the people I know who give bath or shower products as gifts have been gently but firmly assured that giving a gift to me is totally uneccessary.

[ladbroke]

I agree Andy B, and anyway pretty much everything I want these days is too expensive to ask for as a present, I'll have to buy it myself. If it's shower gel and toothpaste then dont bother, buy me a voucher instead then I'll buy what I want with it.

[claradooblue]

Ah but you can never have to much soap / cleaning products. My view is that the more you get bought for Christmas, the less you have to spend on them in Somerfield later on in the year. You can probably save enough to buy a good few pints.

[Andy B]

I agree Andy B, and anyway pretty much everything I want these days is too expensive to ask for as a present

Ask anyway, you never know what you might get. I got a Psp off my mate last year.

[ladbroke]

Maybe I'm a snob, but if I get given a really nice Clinique set of blokes lotions and potions then that is great, but a bloody lynx shower gel and body spray........................... well I can buy that in Tesco's every day of the week if I want (not quite sure why I'd want to though!!)