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do you prefer gift cards?
1. In general, do you prefer receiving gift cards rather than actual gifts?
2. How about gift card vs. cash?
3. In DH's family, everyone emails lists of what they want about a month before christmas. His brother mentioned he likes the shirt/tie sets at JC Penney and listed what size he needs. So do you think we're better off picking out a set for him, or giving him a Penney's gift card?
Re: do you prefer gift cards?
1. Depends on who it is from, but mostly no. Unless it's from a total stranger.
2. I don't know anyone who still gives cash besides my grandpa. Most everyone does Visa gift cards instead of cash now, no? I'd rather get this than cash mostly because cash grosses me out.
3. Buy him the shirt and tie! My family does something similar to this and sends specific lists, the point being so you can buy the gift and not a gift card.
I guess I didn't mean cash, per se. My mom gives people checks because she hates gift cards. (This is a woman who loves to read but complained to me for weeks when someone gave her a books-a-million GC...)
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Hm, checks are worse because then I have to go to the bank and cash it which is a PITA. So I guess VISA gift card, store gift card (as long as it's a store I go to lol), cash then check is my preference.
I'd rather get a VISA gift card (which I could use to shop online), then cash, then a check. Checks are so inconvenient because they have to be deposited in the bank.
I would be a little annoyed at having to go buy the shirt and tie at Penney's, and might opt to get the giftcard, but then again maybe the recipient just really hates shopping so he'd rather have someone else get it for him. And if you're going to be at the store to buy the giftcard, you might as well buy the actual items.
ETA: The downside to cash is that I will use it on random stuff like stopping at Tropical Smoothie or buying a KitKat and it will dwindle down so I can't buy an actual gift for myself which was probably the cash-giver's intention.
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I asked for gc for LOFT this year. I'm really excited about being able to buy more than shirts from there in the next few months and I thought a gc would be good motivation. I also asked for an Amazon gc for my Kindle. We also do lists for H's side of the family and that makes it easier.
In your situation I would pick out a nice tie and shirt and wrap it. Unwrapping a gift is much more fun than unwrapping a gc.
I totally agree with this.
DH is the one who wanted to do the GC instead of buying the shirt, but I didn't want to mention that right away because you all already think he has crazy opinions on stuff.
I love giving actual gifts and wrapping them and having a tree full of presents. I try not to be tooo focused on presents, but it's so much a part of the christmas magic for me that I'd hate to forgo gift giving and instead just exchange money.
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I like getting GC if it is a store I like to go to, because, well I love to shop, period. And what could be better than getting what I actually want?
But if there is a wishlist of actual items, get the item, no the card. Yeah.
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I prefer gifts, it's nice that the gift giver actually put some thought into it instead of just giving a generic gift card. MIL is awful about this - she lives on her own, very little responsibility, teaches so she has 2 weeks off at Christmas and a week off at Thanksgiving but she's just "too busy" to be bothered with shopping for gifts for the kids or us, so she calls DH and tells him how much to spend and we buy the kids a gift from her, then she writes us a check to cover their gifts and ours when she gets here for Christmas. It's just annoying.
If I had to pick though, I'd prefer cash/check/visa gift card over a gift card to a specific store. Depositing a check doesn't bother me, I just give it to DH to do