Now and then we celebrate an occasion, out birthday, house warming, baby shower or whatever.
Our family and people that care for us provide us with all types of presents and also the occasional gift card.
The card sometimes becomes a burden on us and creates more problems than it would solve.
The biggest problem is how to dispose of a card from a manufacturer you do not care much about or their products.
For example getting an Apple Bees card, when the food at Apple Bees does not get your saliva flowing.
Below are some strategies you can use to get rid of the gift without annoying anyone.
Re Gift It This is passing it on to somebody else with a big celebration as you just had.
Simply put the card in an envelope or wrap it up creatively and present it to another person.
Hopefully that individual will have better use for it than you.
Never return a gift to the giver with the lame excuse that you cannot use it.
Always put yourself in the person shoes.
I guess you won't be happy if a gift is returned to you no matter the reason.
It shows ingratitude.
Use It No matter how much disdain you have for the issuer of the gift card, I bet there will be something in their store that will interest you.
If it's a restaurant, you should go there and eat the food.
There must be something on the menu that you will find appetizing.
Sell It A good way to get the monetary face value of the product or something close is to sell it for that amount.
This you can do by offering it up for sale to your buddies or going to an auction website like eBay and put it up for sale.
An auction site will charge you for listing it but, its win win for you.
Its money you never had, so the few cents you pay in listing fees won't matter a great deal.