That's awesome. I always put everything I get from there into a shop and then wait a while before pricing anything so the prices will go back up. I wish more people would do shops so I can go and snoop around, I love to see what other people get.
This year I got 424 items with 331 unique, I'm happy with what I got even if I do miss the old giveaways in the Donation Center, those were epic.
If any of you are as nosy as I am you can see everything I got at the link below, the only two items in there I technically didn't get from the free shop are and the and that's because I got three of so I traded two of them for the other wigs.
I was totally disappointed when I noticed I missed a 100 CSC card. xD I kinda wish it didn't tell us what was "sold out" ? But!!! I had a really nice time with it this year, and it gave me a lot of other nice things, so thank you so much!! I really enjoyed it even when I was getting Melody stuff. ;w;
Thank you for the stats posts! Interestingly, I think I got two CS items and one forum shop item out of maybe the 40 or so I picked out, definitely not like your ~2% of CS items. I probably just got very lucky.
I also agree that we should have had more battle items.. I got a and from the Free Shop many years ago and I still use them to battle. I pretty much trained my pet just so she could use them.