Gift cards....do you???
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Gift cards....do you???
| Fri, 09-05-2008 - 4:04pm |
If you guys get a gift card for yourself do you in turn use it to buy gifts for others?
I have a TERRIBLE time spending gift cards on myself. I KNOW they were meant for ME to use but when money is strapped and I need to buy a gift for someone I just see it as "free" money to buy for someone else.
I just did this at a bookstore and I feel kinda guilty. BUT, I am doing some early xmas shopping and I either spend the money out of the gift card I got as a b-day gift or out of my checkbook. I used the gift card. Does that make me a bad person?

Yes I have used a gift card to buy someone else a gift and if I have even "regifted" a gift card because I knew I wasn't going to use it.
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I see nothing wrong with regifting provided that you are careful not to give the gift to the person that you originally received it from or someone close to them.
In terms of using a gift card that you have been given to make the purchase of a gift for others - I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. If you weren't using it to purchase something for them, is there anything from that store that you actually needed? Also, who needs to know that you purchased the gift using a gift card and not the money from your checking account?
Mary Jo
You bet I do! AND I don't think twice about it, lol. Case in point. I just got a $50 gift card for chocolate from my Dad (as if I want $50 in chocolate!!!). So I have put it aside and come Christmas I will use it to buy sugar free chocolates for my Grandma, and then three smaller boxes to add to wine and chocolate gifts that I have to buy.
I think that anyone who knows me knows that keeping my Christmas spending reasonable and not causing the stress of spending a fortune is far better for me and they wouldn't have a problem with it.
Lol I even take it one step further and cash in my airmiles every year for gift cards that I then use to buy things for christmas.
Bex -
All my best,
Danni
I don't see a problem with it at all.