Shopping
Protect Your Smartphone During Transactions
April 30, 2026
If you have a smartphone, you can just show the merchant your smartphone and they will scan the eGiftCard barcode or key-in the numbers. Never hand your unlocked smartphone to anyone who will take it out of your sight to scan the barcode. Either walk with them to the register or let them write down
Categories: Online SafetyShoppingTips
Put A Memory Jogging GGF Note In Your Checkbook
April 30, 2026
Use a bold marker to write GGF? on that plastic check writing surface that duplicate check checkbooks use. Or write it on the outside cover of your checkbook. It will cause you to think, “Could I use a GGF gift card instead of the check I’m about to write?” Works for at least one of
Keep low denomination gift cards on hand for tips and other small gifts.
April 29, 2026
Keep lots of low denomination gift cards on hand to use for tips. Use them to tip for grocery delivery, pizza delivery, lawn mowing payment and tips, snow removal, and so on. As long as the cards are for merchants that are useful to the recipient they’ve always been appreciated. Buy extra of the low
Use Hy-Vee’s mobile app to scan your gift cards
April 29, 2026
If you have a smartphone and you use Hy-Vee gift cards, then make sure you install Hy-Vee’s newest app for both iPhones and Android phones. It can scan the barcode on your gift cards and add them to the app. Then you can use the app to view the remaining balances on all your Hy-Vee
Categories: Local MerchantsShoppingTips
Wal-Mart Gift Cards are Reloadable (but you earn 38% less tuition funds)
April 29, 2026
Yes, Wal-Mart gift cards are now reloadable. Just save one of the Wal-Mart gift cards you bought at the Gene Grawe Fund office, register it in your RaiseRight.com account, and reload it up to $400 at a time. Doesn’t matter what denomination card you use. You could load $100 onto a $25 gift card. We’ve
Walmart and Sam’s Club Gift Cards are Interchangeable
April 29, 2026
Walmart gift cards and Sam’s Club gift cards are interchangeable. Meaning you can use a Walmart gift card at Sam’s Club and a Sam’s Club gift card at Walmart. NOTE ON USING WALMART PAY APP: Recently, we found out that you cannot use the Walmart Pay app on your smart phone for purchases at Sam’s
Possibly the Ultimate Gift Card Wallet
April 15, 2026
The staff of the Gene Grawe Fund doesn’t want to get in the habit of recommending products. But, considering the amount of money our members, especially new members, waste searching for suitable gift card wallets, we thought we might at least pass along the following info from one of our members who thinks his family
