Gift Card Deals from Their Favorite Stores Save You Hassle, Make Teachers Happy

Most schools let out this Friday: scrambling for a gift to get to your child’s teacher in time might be a stress-point. Browsing through Plastic Jungle will get you on your way, and at less than retail price.

Any parent will tell you that finding the right balance between meaningful teacher gifts (something written or created by your child specifically for the teacher) and thoughtful teacher gifts (straight-on cash for poorly paid teachers) is an annual quandary.

Teachers love gift cards – they don’t require watering, or display, or even add empty calories to their diet. Here are some ideas from GiftCardGirlfriend.com.

Plastic Jungle saves parents the hassle of even perusing the gift card mall at the grocery store. Right here is an aggregate of top-brand gift cards that run the gamut from Starbucks to Bath & Body Works to Walmart to Sony Style, and iTunes retail and online stores*. With an eCode, or an online gift card, you can shop as late as Thursday night, and get your teacher’s gift in by Friday. Plus, these are discounted gift cards, sent to you with free shipping, offering a price break without any hassle. (Sometimes, when you get a gift card directly from a retail outlet online, you have to pay for shipping… actually adding cost!)

One idea for presentation is to have your child make a card, and include a slot for the gift card, or a print-out of the code. You could even do a collage with items you have in mind for the teacher, or a list of songs you think the teacher might like to download.

You’ve got to save time. You’ve got to save money. And, you have to say “Thanks so much!” Plastic Jungle offers parents, and anyone gift giving this holiday season, just that.

*Remember, gift card offerings on Plastic Jungle change all the time. Check back frequently, or sign up for email notifications, for offers from the store of your choice.

Our friends at DailyFeats put out this announcement last week… we wanted to make sure you saw it too

Please let us know what you think.  And start checking in your positive actions – saving money with discounted gift cards as well as selling / exchanging / donating your gift cards can bring you even more value now!

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 3, 2010

Managing your money and trading in your gift cards became a lot more fun and rewarding today, as the innovative positive-action site DailyFeats announced a pioneering partnership with the web’s largest secured gift card exchange Plastic Jungle to help people discover, share, and earn monetary rewards for actions that strengthen their wallets and help them improve their lives.

DailyFeats is a social platform for positive actions that support the body, mind, home, and community; its members earn points and rewards for the positive actions – or feats – they complete and check in. Members of DailyFeats’ private beta, now including Plastic Jungle users, can check in their feats online at DailyFeats.com or from their mobile phones via SMS, and then share those actions both at DailyFeats and throughout their social networks. By offering users the opportunity to earn rewards for a wide range of positive feats, DailyFeats and its partners seek to encourage people to live as well as they possibly can.

Through the Plastic Jungle marketplace and its proprietary payments applications, users can sell unredeemed gift cards for up to 92% of the verified gift card balance or buy gift cards to their favorite stores at up to 30% off. Plastic Jungle will now directly sponsor two specific feats at DailyFeats related to trading and donating gift cards, boosting the point value of those feats.

DailyFeats members and Plastic Jungle users collect points each time they complete one of these sponsored actions, or any of the hundreds of other feats available at DailyFeats.com, allowing them to unlock access to a suite of rewards from partners like 1-800-FLOWERS, American Airlines®, Marriott®, Staples, and many more, plus over 170,000 rewards from local merchants across the country.

“We’re excited to be teaming up with Plastic Jungle,” said Morley Ivers, COO of DailyFeats, “because our missions align so well. DailyFeats and Plastic Jungle share the common goal of enabling people to improve their lives; together we’ll help people find the motivation and tools they need to take control of their finances, one step at a time. Plastic Jungle is the latest organization to join DailyFeats’ coalition of companies, all of which are alike in their desire to make a meaningful difference in the world by encouraging people to take positive actions in their daily lives.”

Approximately $30 billion in gift cards are sitting unredeemed in sock drawers across America, according to recent estimates. “Imagine the difference we can make if even a fraction of that money makes it back into consumers’ wallets, or goes to support worthy charities,” added Kristin Donelson, Vice President of Marketing for Plastic Jungle. “DailyFeats and Plastic Jungle will help make that happen.”

DailyFeats will launch publicly in 2011; meanwhile, it’s available for free at http://www.dailyfeats.com, where new visitors can sign up to join its ongoing private beta.

Read the press release on DailyFeats Announces New Partnership with Plastic Jungle to Save Consumers Money, Encourage Positive Action

About DailyFeats
DailyFeats makes positive actions easy, fun, and rewarding. It’s built on the idea that the world would be a better place if more people had the time and energy every day to accomplish “feats”: actions that are good for our bodies, minds, homes, and communities. Whenever you do something good — whether you’re running, reading, volunteering, or doing any of hundreds of other actions — check it in at DailyFeats.com, where you can earn points to redeem for rewards, plan with friends, and find more good things to try. The goal is for you to live as well as you possibly can.

Michelle Madhok told Rachel Ray and her audience all about how to buy gift cards at a discount and sell gift cards you have on her favorite site  And she has more Black Friday savings tips.  Check it out: http://www.shefinds.com/2010/shefinds-on-rachael-ray-where-to-score-free-money-on-black-friday/

And happy shopping!