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12-04-2011, 09:01 PM #1Registered User
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Choose A Gift Card?
If you knew you were getting a gift card for an undisclosed amount, which store would you hope & wish it was for?
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amazon.com
or walmart
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If I'm being practical I'd say Wal-mart. I could use it to stock up a bit.
Amazon or J.C. Penney if I want to use it just for me. Amazon for books and J.C for a purse.
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Walmart for practical and Dillards for me.
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I would wish for cash. That way I could spend it wherever I wanted, instead of only one place that I may or may not be interested in.
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Kroger or Walmart for me to help me stock up on necessities and not have to spend my own money! OR a local Chamber of Commerce gift certificate so I could spend the money paying bills, again without having to use my own money!
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Kroger - always useful, if not very interesting
Amazon - for Kindle books or just about anythingDonna
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practical--walmart or Hannaford
not practical--pretty much any place to eat out or has take out.
I haven't found a gift card I haven't liked yet.
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Walmart for practical. If not practical Laskers Jewelry.
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Walmart or the grocery store would be my first choice
Second choice would be restaurant cards
I agree with Luv my Hubby I haven't found a gift card I did not like.
Well except the gift card for a month at a gym for woman only that I didn't have a membership to and the gym had no babysitting and I had preschool children. I would of had to pay to use that gift card."Everyday as your walking down the street, everybody that you met has an original point of view" -Arthur PBS
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I think I would have to agree with Spirit Deer; Cash would be better. That way if I needed it for something specific I would have that option, or I could use it where I wanted/needed to put it.
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On the practical side? Target.
Wouldn't mind Amazon, Starbucks, or Sephora, either :-)Loving wife to DH (8/31/03) and Mommy to Owen Alexander (9/20/06)
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1) Lowes (wuv them and I don't usually have a home repair budget)
2) Victoria's Secret
3) Grocery Store so I could buy treats that I don't usually get because they aren't in the budget.LDR
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Wal-Mart, Target or Amazon.
Each of these sell really well. I can typically get right at face value for them.DD (19)
DS (16)
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