This Saturday I’m doing something super fun: I’m heading on a suburban shopping adventure with a few of my favorite blogging friends here in Chicago. We’re going to be hitting up a couple of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, and bringing you some of our favorite picks for this holiday shopping season.
First, you might be asking why on earth we are heading out to the suburbs when Chicago itself is chock-full of TJ Maxx and Marshalls locations. The reason is simple – there are a million or so people that live in Chicago and we want to get out to the stores that are a little less picked over … and the ones we can’t necessarily go to any old day of the week.
Second, you might be asking who’s joining me! The cast of bloggers includes:
- Elise of Seams Deep (@EliseColleenW)
- Hallie of Corals and Cognacs (@halliekw)
- Lisa of Fantabulously Frugal (@fantabandfrugal)
- Tabitha of Defining Tabitha (@definingtabitha)
- Patrice of Afrobella (@afrobella)
- Nikia of ChiTown Fashionista (@chitown_fashion)
- I’ll also be bringing relative newcomer The Clever Clipper (@cleverclipper) as my shopping buddy.
Third, you might be asking why I’m letting you know now about our shopping adventure. It is, of course, because you all will have the opportunity to win prizes, too!
TJ Maxx, Marshalls and Nikia decided it would be even more fun to allow all y’all to track our stops (a total of 3) and join in on the par-tay! So, we’re hosting a virtual giveaway at each location.
Here’s how it will work:
1. We, said bloggers mentioned above, will tweet out a photo at each store and provide our followers with the retail or “compare at” price.
2. The first one of our followers to guess the correct TJ Maxx/Marshalls price (or comes the closest) will win a $50 TJ Maxx/Marshalls gift card!
That’s THREE chances to win a gift card. I’m warning you though – you’re going to have to be really on the ball to beat out the followers of all of those other gals to win. 
In addition to the giveaways, we will be live tweeting our finds using the official hashtag #CHIBloggerCrawl. So, be sure to stalk our Twitter timelines Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. to be a part of the fun!
If you’re not a twitter-ite, I’ll be sure to share my finds next week. And, of course, there will be giveaways galore around these parts with the launch of Thanks-Giveaway on Monday. :)
[...] told you all a couple weeks ago that I was going to embark on a blogger shopping crawl around Chicago, hitting up a few TJ Maxx and Marshall's locations, and while I'm just now getting around to [...]
[...] told you all a couple weeks ago that I was going to embark on a blogger shopping crawl around Chicago, hitting up a few TJ Maxx and Marshall’s locations, and while I’m just now getting [...]