To: Amelia
I think gift cards from a bookstore will probably be better for them anyway. Better not get them from Barnes & Noble because although it doesnt say it on the card - they expire too, on a sliding scale. A $25 face value may only be worth half that in 6 months time. Within a year or so they are without any value.
41 posted on
11/30/2003 10:06:36 PM PST by
Holly_P
To: Holly_P
Better not get them from Barnes & Noble because although it doesnt say it on the card - they expire too, on a sliding scale. Thank you. Maybe I should just give the kids cash. ;-)
44 posted on
12/01/2003 3:04:50 AM PST by
Amelia
("We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo)
To: Holly_P
That's not true because I actually had this experience last Christmas: During Christmas 2001, I got a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card from a relative and I put it away with the Christmas cards and forgot about it. Last Christmas, as I pulled out the old Christmas cards (I save them so that I know who to send cards back to), the card fell into my lap. So a few days later, I used it and it was still worth $50. This had to be a full year since the relative first bought the card.
47 posted on
12/01/2003 4:45:26 AM PST by
SamAdams76
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