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Destroy Your Own Zero Balance Gift Cards

April 30, 2026

Never let anyone other than you, such as wait staff and cashiers, throw away your supposedly zero-balance gift cards. After only a year in the Gene Grawe Fund program, I have had several supposedly zero-balance gift cards show up later with balances. The largest was $32.16 and the smallest was $3.56. We recommend keeping and

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Never Reload Your Five Back Gift Visa Card on the FiveBackGift.com Website

April 30, 2026

The Gene Grawe Fund receives no rebates for purchases there. We only receive rebates for the Five Back Gift Visa cards we sell from our office in the Church of St. Peter. You may occasionally need to register a Visa gift card on the FiveBackGift.com website to facilitate some online shopping, but don’t reload your

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What is a Promotional Load entry on your FiveBackGift.com Visa transaction history?

April 29, 2026

This another good reason not to let a cashier toss your zero balance GGF Visa prepaid gift card. Hold on to your gift cards until at least a month has passed since last use. Today, I was checking the balance on some older Visas before I shredded them, when I discovered one with a 50¢

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Dedicate a $50 or $100 GGF Visa to limit your monthly Blessing Java coffee habit

April 29, 2026

Have you been spending too much on coffee at Blessing Java lately? Try this: each month, buy one $50 or $100 prepaid Visa debit card from the Gene Grawe Fund and then make that the only card you use at Blessing Java. When it’s empty, make yourself wait. Of course, some of you may have

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Don’t Run Down VISA’s Too Low

April 29, 2026

Visa prepaid debit cards are much harder to empty online when their balance of available funds is below $5.00. More and more we’re running into websites where they impose a minimum allowable payment. Some minimum payment thresholds go as low as $1 while $5 seems to be the upper end right now. I recently painted

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