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How to Use Discount Gift Cards To Save Money
January 31, 2011 by
Kathryn on
January 31, 2011
While most people focus on selling their unwanted gift cards, buying discounted gift cards can be a great way to save money on your personal and household shopping. Depending on the store, you can find gift cards discounted by 3-15%, with some cards discounted as much as 30%.
Now you can purchase these cards as presents, however these cards can also be used to save money on your day to day shopping needs. For example, you purchase a Target gift card for 10% off its face value and use the card to go shopping. By using the discounted gift card, you just gave yourself a 10% discount on your purchases.
What to know more? Here’s some additional tips on using discount gift cards in your everyday life.
The 411 on Discount Gift Cards
With the advent of GroupOn and similar sites — and a bad economy — the age of the coupon is once again upon us. While many of us have abandoned clipping coupons from the Sunday paper (in part because most of us read the Sunday paper online), we find we need to stretch our dollar further than ever before.
One solution? The good old grocery coupon. We all have to eat, after all, so saving money means we can either a) save more money even after we’ve cut out those “luxury” food items or b) eat better than we could if we paid full price for everything.
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