eBay charity auction: Spend Christmas living in the "Christmas Story" house in Cleveland

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Shoot Your Eye Out This Christmas In The 'Christmas Story' House!
By Seth, 12:46 PM on Mon Nov 17 2008, 882 views

http://defamer.com/5091228/shoot-your-eye-out-this-christmas-in-the-christmas-story-house



In recent years A Christmas Story has built its audience steadily—aided in no small part by its month of 24-hour-a-day airings on TBS—and overtaken all others as the definitively quotable holiday movie of our generation. The Cleveland home used in the film has been restored and open year-round for tours, and stands right across the street from the official A Christmas Story House Museum. But for those ACS fanatics so wackily obsessed with Ralphie's quest for a Red Ryder BB Gun that merely watching the film is no longer enough, comes the ultimate prize ever conceived: An eBay charity auction offering a Christmas spent living in the house itself. (Thanks to the Thighmaster for pointing it out.) You're bidding on an exhaustive recreation of the film's events right down to the Peking Duck dinner at Pearl of the Orient. The rest of the details are after the jump:

Schedule & Activities

DECEMBER 23:

* Winner and guests arrive in Cleveland (Time TBD)
* 3pm: Check into a suite at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
* Visit the former Higbee’s Department Store Window (next to Renaissance Hotel)

DECEMBER 24:

* 10am: Personal behind-the-scenes tour of A Christmas Story House & Museum
* Ride in family car (weather permitting) and receive bars of Lifebuoy Soap
* Try on original costumes from the movie
* Read through the costume “bible” that includes photos and notes from the production
* 2pm: Check into A Christmas Story House
* Large FRA-GI-LE Major Award crate delivered to the front door of the house (yours to keep – provided by A Christmas Story House). Crow bar provided to open.
* Go out to check the mail for Decoder pins delivered to mailbox (one for each guest and yours to keep - provided by A Christmas Story House)
* Climb under the sink just like Randy
* 5pm: Chinese Turkey Dinner at Pearl of the Orient
* 7pm: Back to A Christmas Story House to watch “A Christmas Story” in the house it was filmed (25th Anniversary DVD is yours to keep; popcorn and sodas provided)
* 9pm: Spend the night in A Christmas Story House sleeping in Ralphie and Randy's bedroom!

DECEMBER 25:

* 8am: Open presents in A Christmas Story House living room
* Continental breakfast basket provided by A Christmas Story House
* Presents included: 2 BB guns (behind the desk), blue bowling ball, can of Simonize, and a bunny suit, 4 Christmas Story House shirts. (provided by A Christmas Story House)
* Bring your own presents to unwrap as well
* Shoot BB guns in the back yard (provided by A Christmas Story House)
* 1pm: Check out of A Christmas Story House and return to Renaissance Hotel (Room is reserved for you)

[KitchenWitch]

1. That sounds like FUN!

:D

[alphafemale]

2. Have they fixed the furnace. Do the people next door have bloodhounds.

Can we con a little kid into sticking their tongue on a flagpole?

[texanwitch]

3. I like everything except checking out of the Christmas Story House on the 25th.

I would like to spend that night also with the tree, the snow outside and the Christmas music on the radio.

[dysfunctional press]

4. 'a christmas story' didn't take place in cleveland- it was set in hohman indiana.

nt

[charlie and algernon]

5. Bidding is up to $1600 already with 9 days to go

will probably end up around 7-10,000 to win.

[Auggie]

6. Second prize is six days in Cleveland

[harmonicon]

7. am I the only person who's never seen this movie? How/why would anyone give a damn?

[charlie and algernon]

8. "only one thing could pull me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.."

Old Man: "fra-gee-lay. It must be Italian"
Mom: "It says fragile"
Old man: "Oh."


:rofl:



It's an extremely quotable, funny movie, check it out!

[Lavender Brown]

9. I think I've seen every Christmas "classic" except this one

I've caught only parts of it on TV and for some reason it never interested me.