Win a $100 Goodwill Gift Card, Goodwill Hunting Scavenger Hunt

You know how much we enjoy shopping at Goodwill stores. Remember all the LOFT goodies we found over the summer?

And if you enjoy thrift shopping, too, here's your chance to win a $100 Goodwill gift card by participating in the Goodwill Hunting scavenger hunt through Monday, February 10, 2014!

Goodwill store in Brooklyn./Photo by Everything She Wants

Everything She Wants is gonna play to win, and we will scout out at least 3 stores in Brooklyn and Manhattan to find 20 or more of the 32 items on the scavenger hunt list.

Download printable contest rules, list of scavenger items and store locations here.

How to Enter:

1. Visit a Goodwill store (participants must visit at least 3 Goodwill stores).
2. Check in your location on twitter, tag us @Goodwillnynj and tweet to us your Pinterest name.
3. Create a Pinterest “Goodwill Hunting” board with all your scavenger hunt findings.
4. Send your board to us at goodwillnynj@gmail.com as soon as you find at least 20 out of the 32 items.

Rules:

1. Participants must visit at least 3 Goodwill stores to find at least 20 out of the 32 items in the scavenger list. Visit Goodwill’s website for a list of stores.

2. The scavenger hunt ends midnight on Monday, February 10, 2014.

3. Goodwill NY-NJ will designate the panel of judges who will select the winners.

4. Prizes are non-transferable and can’t be redeemed by cash.

No purchase necessary.

Grand Prize: Winners of the following 5 categories get 1 (one) $100 Goodwill gift card

1. Speedster: fastest person to find at least 20 items
2. Over-achiever: person who visits the most Goodwill stores to find the 20 items
3. Partier: person who includes at least 2 people in the most pictures
4. Most creative
5. Funniest

Runners-up: Next 20 people to send their board get 100 Goodwill Rewards card points

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