Stores in These States Must Give You Cash for Your Gift Cards
by Alicia Adamczyk on Two Cents, shared by Alicia Ada from Lifehacker on (#468ZM)

Everyone's been in a situation where they've used a gift card and are left with a tiny amount of money left-it's not enough for another purchase, and you don't really want to buy something else with only a $1.43 discount, but you don't want to discard the gift card either. That'd be like throwing away money.