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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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A credit card is a card to say "these people will pay you and I'll owe them money"

With a gift card, you're choosing items that have already been paid for, the company already got the money and you're just picking out what you want to buy with it

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Do people actually lose/forget about gift cards?

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

All the time.

47% of American adults have unused gift cards. The average value per person is $187, and the total value of these unspent funds in the US annually is approximately $23 billion.

Higher-income individuals are most likely to have unredeemed gift cards, with 62% of this demographic reporting unused cards.

Nearly 29% of Americans have kept a gift card so long that it expired, and 25% have lost at least one gift card.

https://grabon.com/blog/gift-card-statistics/

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

I think that's why companies sell gift cards. They get money and half the time don't have to actually give away any merchandise

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

They don't expire in Canada

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. People lose pretty much anything a lot. And if you have a card to a place you never go to, or don't even have nearby it can easily be forgotten after a while.

A lot of it, though, is having just a few cents left on the card and then just tossing it because it's not worth saving. When added up, that's a lot of money just being thrown away.

[–] cron@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago

Some gift cards are also not a very good fit. I know that from personal experience ;)