Always check balances on prepaid cards you come across.
For example, here are $50.01 worth of groceries from a local overpriced supermarket I bought using an unused gift card. I found it prominently displayed in a clear bag of paper recyclables on the curb. Easy street.
I shopped by eye with no calculator and the store manager gave me the penny so I could say that all of this was free.
The food didn't last long, but it feels good to find free money and get free stuff that would've been wasted otherwise.
FREEEEEEEE!!!!!
How'd I know that there was a balance when I found it? I just followed the steps on the back of the card like I do for every card. I found it in August, and it was loaded fairly recently in April with the security code still unscratched.
Proof Of $50 Balance:
The food was devoured.
Other cards I currently have for free $$$:
- $177 for a popular jewelry brand.
- $50 Amazon card.
- $23 card for a popular clothing brand.
- $12 coffee retailer card.
- Several metro cards with various modest balances.
...All found right on the curbs, tossed by lazy, clueless or wasteful people.
Moral of the story?
Check your cards for balances before tossing them, or look up the cards you may find!
Keep stacking.
Thanks,
@steemmatt
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Hi. Where did you get the impression that my point was that I saved the food from wasting? You may not know my history to understand the foundation of this of this offshoot post - where my main point was to help people not throw out cards with balances. Have you seen my blog posts spanning 3.5 years where I've shown examples of saving countless items from my city's curb recycling? You can see the tip of the iceberg of several thousands of items (and pounds) hand-saved, sold, gifted, donated, or kept.
I do feel that I also saved well-intenioned money people spent for others that they squandered away by throwing the cards ($) out. Whatever I spend it on feels irrelevant to me as it's the practice of saving any resource from being wasted, in this case gifted $. Thanks for the chat.