A native Californian transplanted in southern Illinois.Last week, I received a gift card as a thank you gift from a client. It is a gift card to Olive Garden, which I love, but which will not help me at all with my weight loss. 
I have been contemplating selling it on plastic jungle and using the proceeds to chip at my mortgage. Is that tacky?
I have been reluctant to post this, as I suspect people will say "Yes, tacky, don't do it" and then if I do it anyway, how incredibly tacky will I be?
UPDATE: BF and I had dinner at Olive Garden Sunday evening. We split a shrimp appetizer which has 500 calories, and I ordered the apricot chicken served with steamed veggies which has 400 calories. Then we had salad and breadsticks, of course. (I would love to report that I skipped the breadsticks, but I ate two!) I did stick with water. I love Olive Garden's chicken scampi, yummmmm. But it has approximately 3 million calories so was out of the running. The apricot chicken was good. It was a nice meal out. 
I just got paid $9 for a secret shop I did a few months ago, I plan to mortgage chip that. (No more credit card chipping, I will just stick with my Dec 2012 payoff schedule.)
Gift Card as Thank You from Client
July 21st, 2011 at 06:37 pm
July 21st, 2011 at 06:49 pm 1311274150
July 21st, 2011 at 08:40 pm 1311280831
Not tacky, I am sure they just gave you a gift card because they felt it would be more personal than to give cash.