One of the keys to using up your gift cards is remembering to use them.  Some people keep them in their wallets so they have them whenever they are at the store the gift cards are drawn upon, but this method has largely been a failure for me as I can just as easily forget they are in my wallet as in a drawer.

My wife came up with a much smarter system; she puts them in a simple photograph stand (like this one) and places it somewhere that she’ll notice when leaving the house.