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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.