Welcome to this episode of "Gift It Forward", otherwise known as "GIF". I will be your hostess for this round, and it is open to everyone. I will be contributing gifts to the pot and keeping track of others who want to contribute gifts. At the close of the round my son Sam will pull the name out of a hat.

This GIF's theme is "I LOVES to COLLECTS". Those who want to contribute items can pull any old collectible you have that you are willing to part with from one of your own collections, or perhaps an item you found that you think would be a great start of a collection (but you swore you wouldn't start anymore collections) or maybe something that you know is a collectible but you just never really had an interest in yourself..... you get the idea. This can be a genuine vintage old widget, a strange and bizarre widget or a decorative collectible. Since there isn't a thing in the world some darn fool collects, this should be pretty easy, right?

Contributions are optional and not required in order to play.

ANYONE can play, just say I'M IN!!!!

There are only two (2) rules to the game:

1. The winner must contact me with your snail mail info within 48 hours of winning.

2. Winner must post a new GIF within 72 hours of winning.

Sign ups start now and will end on Monday, November 9 2 p.m. Pacific time. My son will draw the winner and will post the winner's name at 3 p.m. PST unless something really shakes up the schedule, in which case we will update you.

By popular request we are adding a little Food Bank GIF, which I will describe in the next GIF. Photos of my first donations to the pot will follow when I can find some batteries for the darn camera....