Nifty Thrifty Gifty Giveaway

Here at The Thrift Shop Romantic, I’m always blabbing about how you can find pretty, inexpensive vintage items at thrift stores. And so I found a fun way to pass some of them along to you, through the first-ever Nifty Thrifty Gifty giveaway.

Here’s how it works. There are two categories for which I will show photographs with numbered objects in them:

• In one set, the object is to guess, “Which Item in the Photos were NOT $1 or Less.”
• In the other set of photos, the object is to determine, “Which Items Came From the Thrift Store?”

Participants have two chances to participate, and can receive ONE of two different gift baskets of fully-thrifted goodies that I’ve put together.

One basket includes a cute metal bird-in-a-cage music box, two vintage figurines, a sparkly pink candle in an antique rose-printed dish, two jars of buttons, two vintage table-runners, and a white barrel-like basket...


The second basket includes: two jars of button, two tea cups and saucers, a red heart-shaped pillow, a clear apothecary style jar filled with interesting red marbles, a red trimmed sewing basket and some vintage doilies.


If only one person guesses a category entirely right, they’ll receive one of the baskets. If no one guesses a category entirely right, or if there are multiple people who guess correctly during the giveaway timeframe, then the group with the most right guesses per category will be put into a drawing. (I want this to be as fair as possible for everyone.)

No one person can win both gift baskets; I’d like to spread the thrifty glee around. (And as I am paying for postage on this-- I’m limiting this to entries from folks in the United States only. I hope you’ll understand.)

I will accept entries up until midnight on Saturday, October 13. That should give everybody enough time to participate. The winners will be posted on Monday, October 15, with that week’s update. I will contact the winners via email, so make sure when you email me, it’s from a valid email address.

Okay-- on to the two categories! First one:

Which item in these two pictures was NOT $1 or less? Note: there are two numbered photos with six items total in this category.


Contents above, as you can see--

1.) Fairy candle holder

2.) Portrait plate

3.) Carnival glass tumbler

And the last set of items in this category...

4.) Jadeite cup

5.) Red rose embossed lampshade

6.) Vintage pink glass bowl

Got that set? Ready to move on? All righty!

Now for the next category and your second chance for a giveaway basket...

Which of the items below came from a thrift store? (hint: there can be more than one). There are seven different items in this category as follows:


1.) Marble topped pedestal table (above)

Next...


2.) Shabby chic style mirror (above)

3.) Green vintage vase (above)

Next...


4.) Vintage rose-printed vinyl dress box (above)

5.) Antique dresser box/jewelry box with still life (above)


Next...

6.) A set of chalkware bookends

And last in this category...


7.) Vintage lampshade

So just to sum up, to enter, simply send me an email (click here to go to the Say Hi page) with the following two categories and your choices for each:

--Which item was NOT $1 or less? Choice of:
1.) Fairy candle holder
2.) Portrait plate
3.) Carnival glass tumbler
4.) Jadeite cup
5.) Red rose embossed lampshade
6.) Vintage pink glass bowl


--Which of these items came from a thrift store? (there can be more than one) Choice of:
1.) Marble topped pedestal table
2.) Shabby chic style mirror
3.) Green vintage vase
4.) Vintage rose-printed vinyl dress box
5.) Antique dresser/jewelry box with still life
6.) Pair of chalkware bookends
7.) Vintage lampshade

When you email me, please list the category and then list either the item name(s) or the associated number for each.

Hope you have fun with it! And, remember, the results of the giveaway will be revealed on Monday, October 15, 2007.

Next week? We’ll take a field trip to East Liverpool and Columbiana, Ohio for antiquing adventures. I hope you’ll choose to ride along!