What happens when you can’t give up the christmas gift card no more

They also borrowed the money from each other too, so each has a $25 card and a $25 debt. The debt will never be paid, and they’ll acrue interest with each other. They’ll all use the growing debt as a justification to cut social services.

Of course. Then you are obligated to spend at least a little more than $25 so they aren’t going to waste

$75 gdp without having to do a god damn thing, and then the plastic gets tossed into a landfill.

The one area where gift cards are nice is when you for sure know that someone is going to be shopping somewhere and will use it up. My husband and I recently gained two nephews through his brother’s fiancee’s previous marriage. There’s a local game store that the boys love, so we got them gift cards paired with an outing to the store and lunch. My brother-in-law and his fiancee just had a baby, our niece, so it’s also a way to give them a little bit of a break. It wouldn’t have been existing for them if it had just been cash.

6 months later, all three cards have expired, so all three companies get $25 of free revenue, and no one really got anything for Christmas.

Gift cards are a fucking scam