Easter Giveaway!

I promise that my house is not still decorated for Christmas! I'm sharing this photo because I want to give you a little backstory for my Easter Blog Giveaway.

This unusual piece of furniture resides in my front room, right as you come in the house. It is kind of out of place (okay, Husband, A LOT out of place) and I know that it will eventually have to be evicted when I finally get some real furniture in the room. But for now, this is the only place for it. I've never really figured out how to best utilize the shelves on top, although I had grand plans of a black & white photo gallery of some type that have since fallen by the wayside. At Christmas I display the cards we get in the mail and for Valentine's I use it to display my vintage Valentines. Those four great big drawers on the bottom are really handy; currently they hold most of my eBay junk that's waiting to be listed.

What is it? Well, that, my friends, is an old wooden greeting card display. I bought it off of Craig's List in July 2005. The man I bought it from had purchased the entire contents of an old drugstore in a tiny town in Missouri. I mean, the entire contents. The story was something like this: a man and his wife ran the drugstore from at least the 1960s on, probably earlier. The man got sick sometime in the late 70s or early 80s or so and the store was closed up, with things still on the shelves and everything. I"m a little hazy on the details, but you get the idea. The guy who sold me the card display purchased the whole store, lock, stock and barrel and had to drive to Missouri and bring it all back here to Colorado. He and his partner took what they wanted (the jukebox, the old soda machines, the soda fountain) and then were selling the rest piecemeal on eBay and Craig's List.

When I saw this listing on Craig's List, I think I nearly passed out! Included in the price was the entire contents of the display as they had found it. The guys delivered it to my house and unloaded boxes and boxes and boxes of old cards, wrapping paper, and other paper goods. It was truly like Christmas in July! Over the next few weeks, I got to go through all of those boxes of treasure! I threw away a lot because it was damaged from having sat for 30 years but I kept quite a bit as well with the idea of keeping some and selling some.

I haven't been as on top of it as I would like so I actually haven't sold anything except for 2 Rainbow Brite Advent calendars last Christmas. I attempted to sell some lots of Easter cards last year but had no luck, and in researching prices to get them ready to sell this year I have found that they won't bring much. Therefore, I'd rather just give them to people who I know would enjoy them than go to all the work of listing them for just a few bucks.

So that LONG story brings me to the Easter Giveaway! I have 3 packets of Easter cards (10-15 in each) that I would like to share with some of you, my dear blog readers. If you would like to be in the running to receive one of the packets, just leave a comment on this post! I'll put them all in the Goblet of Fire and we'll see who it spits out. :) I'm posting this late Tuesday night so let's say you have until noon M.S.T. on Thursday to get your comment in. I'll post on Friday who the three lucky duckies are and get them in the mail to you A.S.A.P.