Gift card category ideas wanted.

[shopping4my3son]

A couple years ago I put together a calendar full of gift cards for my oldest. He liked it a lot so I'm trying to come up with something similar this year.

 

I'm looking at getting a plain recipe box with plain dividers. I'd like to label the dividers and place gift cards in between.

 

I can only come up with Food and Entertainment. Maybe I could divide the food into different categories like delivery or type of food?

 

Any other ideas?

 

[Kanyon71]

If he has hobbies you could get Gift Cards for places that sell things for those, like if he is into Hunting or Camping you can do Bass Pro Shops or Dicks or places like that, if into Games you can do Game Stop, into Models or R/C you can do local Hobby Shops. Also you can break up the food ones like you were saying based on the type they are.

[bluebear]

Oh, thank you for bringing this up. I loved your idea so much, I had wanted to do that for my son, who just moved to school last month. Thanks for the reminder!

Your recipe box idea is good too. Maybe one for shopping? Like target, books.. Gas? Maybe a grocery category in food ?

Edited September 23, 2015 by bluebear

[shopping4my3son]

I found some plain wooden boxes on Amazon that look nice. Not to girly or flowery. Of course if I EVER had a girl to buy for I'd get the most girly one I could find. lol

 

I started picking up gift cards already. Last time I did this I waited until December and it was so cold out. Way to much in and out of stores in yucky weather. Plus if I start now it's not a huge hit all at once.

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wooden+recipe+box

Edited September 23, 2015 by shopping4my3son

[smorebore]

Awesome idea!!!!!!!  My son just moved to college too

[Kanyon71]

If you have a Sam's club membership or know someone who does they usually have good deals on gift cards. Like $50 for $39.95 on a lot of them. We buy them for restaurants we like, picking up one for Buca this weekend $100 for $79.95. $20 instant savings and then we have a coupon on top of it

[Elmck]

Don;t forget to look at Raise.com too. I have gotten many gift cards through them. Maybe a Movie Night category

[hillbillyswife]

Craft/Hobbies

Movie

Sports

Grocery

Fast Food

Dine IN

Delivery

Gas

Fun ~ Mini Golf, Video etc

Mall

Books ~ B&N, Etc

[magickallight]

All of these ideas are SO creative! Love the way we all share on here!   Be sure to keep an eye on GottaDeal.com main page - Brad will post some awesome discounts on Gift Cards through eBay and other places - but they go FAST! You can realty save by buying them early and then create categories around them.

[berry1014]

Coffee & Donuts - Dunkin Donuts Gift Card

Breakfast

Summer cool down (ice-cream or water ice)

Bowling

[momlori]

You can also add a Misc with a generic Amex card

[racerfan]

This is an awesome idea!!!  I do have a question since I am drawing a blank  What would you use as dividers.

 

My Son is in the Navy, and gift cards for a variety of places sounds like a great idea.  I could do places for where he is at school and for some generic places that can be found anywhere

[giz]

What about car wash or oil change (if they don't do their own maintenance).

[racerfan]

Since my Son is in the Navy, and just bought a car I plan on getting him gift card for oil change, the car wash as above said, gas card, local supermarket, local pizza place  Next time I go visit I have to go see what else is around there,  He only moved up there  on 9/9 and will be there 6-11 months,

[shopping4my3son]

This is an awesome idea!!!  I do have a question since I am drawing a blank  What would you use as dividers.

 

My Son is in the Navy, and gift cards for a variety of places sounds like a great idea.  I could do places for where he is at school and for some generic places that can be found anywhere

I was looking for plain recipe card dividers or maybe getting card stock and cutting my own.

[racerfan]

I was looking for plain recipe card dividers or maybe getting card stock and cutting my own.

I have been looking for blank recipe cards...not that I have found any. The ones I see don't have the tabs

[jaymacfla]

Best Buy, Steam Wallet card, and some kind of prepaid gas card if they have one.

[bpr]

My son bought me a Steam gift card for my birthday so I could buy some 'vintage' Star Wars games, lol. Anyways, back to the topic at hand, you can break entertainment down into smaller categories as listed in other post. Some more categories you could use: movies, games and music. Lots of great ideas posted to chose from. Hope it helps.

[fran]

How about Cvs or Walgreens

[shopping4my3son]

I found plain recipe cards. I'm buying the colored ones, I did see plain white on Amazon also.

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CXI2A1E/ref=pd_luc_rh_mrairec_04_04_t_img_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[jewleyp]

This is an AWESOME idea... I will be using in a couple years when DD (12) is extremely hard to buy for!  She never asks for anything so this will be great for after when we have bought everthing that she has ever looked at ....lol

[Dawnaree7176]

I bought dividers for a recipe box in the dollar tree

[colemandawn4905]

look for places u can get deals or points for the gift cards. I use mypoints alot (online)  and get points that i cash in for gift cards and where i live our Krogers always gives us 2x the points so if i buy a 25 dollar gift card i get 50 points and sometimes they do 4x the points and for every 100 points i get 10 cents off a gallon of gas. It adds up quick when im buying groceries and gift cards then i get gas cheaper and it works out well. 

[conj]

haven't seen music listed as a category yet.

[nafcmf]

This is a great idea!

[tinkrbel]

Spa, concert/ticketmaster, membership cards (gaming/service/or store), magazine subscription or buy an experience gift not sure if cards available (experiencedays.com).