Gift cards

[Winchester]

Since we haven't been going to restaurants or anything, we have a ton of gift cards that are sitting on my desk: Outback, Longhorn, Texas Roadhouse, two for a local pizzeria in town, one for a local brewpub, etc.

I still have the $250 gift card from Sheds Unlimited for the article on their website about the shed.
When I retired, the guys at work, knowing how much I love Trader Joe's, gave me a gift card for $125 from TJ's. It's still on my desk. And that one is burning a serious hole; I'd love to hit TJ's!

Do you have a lot of gift cards laying about that you haven't used?

 

[Mia6]

Ha!!!! I have no gift cards, hee, hee but if I did they'd be used

 

[Kat0121]

No. The only time I get gift cards is at my birthday. Usually someone at work will give me one for Olive Garden which I give to DD. I'm not a fan of that place.

 

[Katie M]

I don't have any, but I gave my parents a gift card for Darden restaurants for Christmas. It's been on their fridge door ever since.

 

[NY cat man]

I have three- one from Barnes and Noble, one from Applebee's, and one from One-eyed Jack's- a local barbecue place.

 

[neely]

I have no gift cards, hee, hee but if I did they'd be used.

I don't let gift cards go too long without being used because I worry the store might go out of business.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

We had some gift cards for Lowes but I spent them last weekend on table lamps for the living room.

 

[susanm9006]

A couple with balances like $.57 that I never remember to use but can’t bring myself to throw away and about $15 remaining on a found Starbucks card.

 

[cassiopea]

I only have one, which has around $4-5 or something on it Starbucks gift card

 

[LTS3]

I have a $25 Legal Seafood gift card that has been sitting in my wallet for at least 10 years I actually work near a Legal Seafood restaurant now so I'll have to drop by and get take out at some point.

EDIT: So the restaurant chain is still closed due to the pandemic. No take out or delivery options So the gift card will continue to sit in my wallet until it can be used.

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I got $50 worth of gift cards for $15 to a restaurant downtown, but I haven't used them yet. I actually forgot I had them.

 

[Moz]

I have about $60 in gift cards for a local used record store, a $25 gift card to McDonald's that I won at the beginning of the pandemic, and a $15 Tim Hortons gift card.

 

[AbbysMom]

I have plenty of gift cards I need to use. In January I did go through them all and tried to use up as many as I could online. Someone gave me $100 to lululemon quite a few years ago. It's not a place I shop. I was able to get a hat and scarf for that amount. We have a gift card to a restaurant that's about an hour and a half from our house. Yep, had that one for a few years. Most of the ones we have right now are to restaurants and it's been tough to use them when the restaurants have been closed.

 

[Lari]

Yes - we got several Bed, Bath & Beyond gift cards for our wedding/shower, that I was saving until we moved into a house and had more room, and then we got the house and covid hit, so I haven't used them yet! I should order some things online even if I prefer shopping in the store.