It is nice when someone takes a concept and creates a new way of understanding it, which is what Mint.com has done with gift cards in their Mintlife blog. We often buy gift cards because they are convenient and we aren’t aware of all the potential pitfalls, which have understandably gotten fewer over the last several years, but pitfalls do still exist. Read this in full and see if you still want to buy a gift card for someone.
Me thinks that the mint folks need to use a spellchecker.