You might be asking yourself, “where can I find items to giveaway as gifts?”

• YOUR STUFF: You can find good quality items anywhere. Start with your stuff. Is there too much clutter in your life? Do you have two of everything or so it seems? If you want to give one of them away, post it up on Ewishingwell. Did you change your decor? I’m sure someone would want it to change their decor.
• BUY NEW: If you can afford to buy something brand new in the store and you want to give it away, because you know someone would love it. Post it up. You might be using a buy one, get one free coupon, but you don’t need two of whatever. Give the second one away and it didn’t cost you a dime, since you were already buying your item.
• 2nd HAND: If you can’t afford something new, but you want to give stuff away. Your local thrift shop, garage sale, yard sale, flea market, and any 2nd hand stores are great places to find stuff at affordable prices.

What condition can the items be in that I want to give away?

• NEW: That’s obvious.
• USED: Some people love used stuff, while others simply don’t mind it being used that is providing it still has some life left in it.
• BROKEN: Even if it is broken, someone might be able to use it to fix their broken whatever. I know when I needed to fix my sister’s Nintendo DS, I was looking for a broken DS for the parts. Keep this in mind too. (I would make sure to state it is broken in the listing.)

Here’s one reason why you would buy an item just to give it away on Ewishingwell:

• YOU KNOW SOMEONE WOULD LOVE IT: Don’t you always see items while you are shopping, that you know someone would love, but it isn’t quite meant for you. Buy it and give it away to someone. There might be an item that someone puts on the website that you would absolutely love. Remember the Karma thing…

Anyway, have fun with it. I know I’m having a blast buying things to list on the website each and every day. One day, the website will be able to give all the items away without any postage charges, but right now – I can’t buy all the items and pay for all the shipping, too. That’s why the items from our Ewishingwell user id, have a small shipping cost associated with them. I just wanted to explain that to everyone. However, if I was only listing one item a month to giveaway, I would definitely make it free shipping, just so I could have the joy of giving away the item to someone across the country.

Happy Giving, Buying or Decluttering,

~Vicki
Official Wish Grantor
(www.ewishingwell.com)

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ABC’s TV show Secret Millionaire aired the Season Finale Sunday night. I really hope this is not the last we see of this amazing show. Do you guys want to see additional seasons of this touching series?

I have seen some disturbing comments on the internet about this program. They go something like this: if these people are millionaires, it is an insult that they are only giving some of the organizations $10,000 – when that is like giving $5 to the charity, since they can clearly afford to give serious money to these organizations. I would like to ask these people the following question. When was the last time they gave away $10,000 to a charity? These millionaires are giving away at least $100,000 of their own money to the organizations. When was the last time you gave away $100,000 to a needy charity? These millionaires are helping change people’s lives. If you don’t believe this, you didn’t watch the end of the show with the updates about the money’s use.

Even if you only give $5 away to a charity, that is awesome. If everyone gave away $5 to a charity, that money would quickly add up. It isn’t all about the dollar amount, it is about the good it is doing – no matter the value. I applaud the millionaires for signing up for the show and giving away their money to these organizations and bringing these issues to television. Without their cooperation, there would be no Secret Millionaire show.

Sunday night’s episode was awesome: Ali Brown was sent only 2 miles away from her home in California for her assignment. It proves you can help people just around the corner, any corner.

Ali volunteered at 4 different organizations designed to help the Venice, CA community. The organizations were a restaurant for the homeless, an outreach program for the homeless, an program for unwed homeless mothers or expectant mothers, and a program setup to give beauty sessions to terminally ill patients and their caregiver. All of these programs are doing wonderful work to help their fellow human beings. I applaud them on their journey to make a difference in the lives of people.

What do you guys think? Is $10,000 some of the millionaires give to one organization, too little in your opinion? Or is it amazing they are putting their money into action at some worthwhile causes? Be sure to leave your comments below, we would all love to read them.

If you missed this episode, you can watch it here http://abc.go.com/shows/secret-millionaire. Or if you want to learn more about Ali Brown, you can visit her website http://www.alibrown.com/. You can also visit the Facebook page for the show at http://www.facebook.com/SecretMillionaire. As of right now, 65,637 people like this show on Facebook, so people must still like seeing feel good shows – I’m not the only one, thank goodness.

~Vicki
Official Wish Grantor
(www.Ewishingwell.com)

We’ve got a listing on Ewishingwell right now from one of our users for FREE English Bulldog Puppies to any loving and caring home!

If you are looking for one of these dogs, this would be a great opportunity to adopt a Best Friend, providing you are in Alaska or want to make other arrangements with the owners (possibly).

These are the cutest puppies. I thought I would blog about them and try to help them find homes for life. How can you resist those eyes??????? Too bad I already have 2 dogs myself…they are so cute.

Be sure to check out the actual listing here: http://www.ewishingwell.com/category/830/Dog-Supplies/listings/369/Jovial-English-Bulldog-puppies-FOR-FREE-ADOPTION.html .

They are house and potty trained already for you – what a DEAL! Playful with kids and associative with other home pets… You know you want to take one home.

Good Luck little Puppies from your friends at Ewishingwell.

~Vicki
Official Wish Grantor
(www.ewishingwell.com)

Since Ewishingwell is in its infancy, we decided to make it easier on our users by turning on the category counts. This will allow our users to quickly see how many listings are listed in each category.

While browsing the main category page in either main category (Wishing or Gifting), you will notice numbers in parenthesis next to each subcategory. This indicates how many listings are in that particular subcategory.

We know your time is important. This should save you valuable time and allow you to visit the site more often.

If you have any suggestions on how we can improve the website and make it better for you, please let us know.

P.S. – What do you think about the change? Does it make it easier for you to keep an eye on the website? I’d love to hear your answers. Please leave me a comment below.

~Vicki
Official Wish Grantor
www.ewishingwell.com

In order to make Ewishingwell an even better experience for our users, we made the Featured Listing Feature Available to ALL our users. What does this mean for you? What are the Featured Listings and where do they appear? Let me answer those questions now.

This means great things for you, but you have to take advantage of it. While Posting a Listing for your wish or gift item. Here is what you need to do.

1) Click on “Post a Listing”.
2) Once you get to the “Listing Extra Details & Information Choices” Page.
3) Select the choice, “Featured Listing”.
4) Click the box next to this extra.

The Feature Listing status you selected causes the listing to rotate on the Front Page of the Website randomly. Only 10 are shown on the front page under each category (wishing and gifting an item). Therefore, they are randomly displayed. This increases your listing’s visibility, so more people can view it.

We wanted everyone’s listings to have an equal opportunity to be viewed on the front page of the website, so we decided to implement this feature for everyone. Hope you enjoy it!

P.S. – give it a try and tell me what you think in the comments below.

~Vicki
Official Wish Grantor
www.Ewishingwell.com