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My fingers are crossed for him!

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My husband’s dream may be coming true.

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Bring an avid collector, one of my guy’s favorite programs is Antiques Roadshow. He watches it religiously, envious of all the people who clean out their attics and find priceless treasure.

While I watch the show and see hundreds of people standing in endless lines in the hot sun, clutching and dragging cumbersome objects, inching forward in slow motion for a mind boggling number of tedious hours, just to spend two minutes with an appraiser who tells them grandma’s objet d’art is a fake…

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My husband sees the lucky 6 out of 6,000 people who have something worthy and simply knows that could be him.

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So when I saw this article in a local paper…

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I decided to give him the chance to be lucky.

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After a bit of research I discovered you don’t pay for tickets, they’re free. The catch is… the only way to get them is to enter a sweepstakes. You sign up, submit your name (one per household) and hope they pick you.

So that’s what I did.

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And since my husband’s birthday is right around the bend, I printed that announcement out and put it in a wrapped gift box.

My fingers are crossed they pick our name… not because I want to stand in line for all those bunion busting hours, but because I love my guy and it would make him happy.

And hey, the blog fodder factor could be off the charts.

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44 thoughts on “My fingers are crossed for him!”

  6. We watch Antiques roadshow a lot. I call it “Liars on parade” For all the priceless works of art found in dumpsters and Cartier watches purchased at yard sales for fifty cents.
    If I was to plan a trip to Maine and won tickets to the show, could I transfer my tickets if I was unable to make the trip 😏?

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  8. Aww what a sweet and yet sadistic thing to do for him. Sweet for him and sadistic for since you mentioned the long lines of peeps waiting for an appraiser to tell someone what they thought was an antique is really a flea market buy, lol. Okay so here’s a secret that I’ll part with, I watch the Antiques Roadshow as well, but the British version because some of the things brought to the appraisers really baffle me. Like a lady brought in this weird looking chair/lounge thing. She thought it was for “maternity” purposes, to help women in the Victorian age give birth. But then the appraiser told her it was indeed Victorian but it was a “sex” chair for overweight men, she was visibly nauseated. Now that’s quality television right there….lol.

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    1. Classic!
      Years ago I had a Welsh friend from Multiply who went to the British version. She made her husband drag this enormous hutch/sideboard piece she inherited from her family. It was ugly, her husband hated it but it turned out to be a very fine antique and was worth $25k +.
      You never know!

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  16. Best make sure he is not sending in his own application, as it might disqualify you for entering twice. You know if he hewrs about it on his own he will be entering faster than a speeding bullet!

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  17. I will try to send you some of my luck. I have been winning things since I was a kid. Nothing really big, mind you, but trips and money and such like — top single value about $10,000. All of them for free.
    Shooshing luck to you!

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  18. PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME! What movie is that from?

    I’m smiling just thinking of him being able to do this. But, what in the world would he choose to bring with him? He has SO many choices!!

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