Inside the SEARS Wishbook — A $500 Grant a Wish Giveaway! – Liz Strauss at Successful Blog.: “Every year when I was a kid, my mom would sit us down with the Wishbook from Sears. She’d have us make list of what we wanted for Christmas…. The tradition came with a solid promise that at least one item on each list would end up under our tree. My list kept me busy for hours — busy dreaming, and wishing, and learning the life skill of filling out order forms.”

The above reminds me so much of being a kid. When my sister and I were young our parents would bring home the catalogs from the big department stores like Sears. Traci and I would sit in the middle of the living room reading through the catalogs dreaming of the wonderful things within.

As a grown man, I still love to browse a catalog when it’s gift giving time. Just now I do it online. Sears has long been online and offering even more choices there than can be found in their corner store.

This year Sears is out to share that joy through offering gift cards through a simple bit of blog magic. They’ve asked a few bloggers to share the wealth by doing a simple contest on their blogs.

Each blogger had to go exploring at Sears and get their own wishes granted, then write about it on their blog. The bloggers then get to offer some prize packages worth $500 to the lucky winner.

One way to enter is to write a blog post about the contest and link back to the post. I’ve chosen Liz Strauss to show some love to as her article really brought back memories for me.

I’m especially fond of the Images, Music, and Words package.

Hats off to Liz and Sears. May they spread much joy this holiday season.