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How much in store-specific money do you have? (Gift cards, etc)


MarkRaby

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I brought this up last year (when I had my massive amount of BB Bucks), and thought I'd ask again for this year. For the stores that you'll be going to (or might be going to) on Black Friday, how much do you have available to spend that won't affect your bank accounts?

 

For me, I have

 

Best Buy

- $30 in Reward Zone certificates

 

CVS

- $5 in ExtraBucks

 

EB Games

- ~$25 in store credit

 

Sears

- $10 gift card (plus another $10 if I happen to choose to go to that store first & am one of the first 200)

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I have

$20 in toys r us gift cards

$38 in walgreens (not seeing to much to spend them on)

$50 in walmart

$10 target

$20 rite aid

$50 dick's sporting goods

Hopefully will have a $50 from target from my points by then..does anyone now how long they take?

I got my gc in about 2 weeks, but that was about 3 weeks ago.

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Here in Massachusetts, by state law, Gift Cards never expire.

 

I bought my Mom a GC for Lowes 3 years ago (so she could buy some paint to paint her Apt) and she still hasn’t gotten around to using it. There's no rush though because she can use it whenever she wants.

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Here in Massachusetts, by state law, Gift Cards never expire.

 

California and Nevada also have the same law, and I believe a handful of other states as well. This has led to almost all of the big-name stores to just get rid of the "no-activity" fees on their gift cards, so it's not something that most people need to worry about.

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I had a surprise 30th birthday party last night for my husband and he got over $400 in gift cards to random stores. I have been saving up gift cards all year and I have over $500 in gift cards to random stores. I think we have a gift card for just about every store there is around us! We are going to go and use some of them today and whatever we don't want we are going to use for Christmas gifts I guess. Christmas might be cheaper than we thought!
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