Imagine rent is coming due at the end of March, and you're $1000 short. But you expect to have $5000 more than needed to get by, by the end of April. You'd be h

Imagine rent is coming due at the end of March, and you're $1000 short. But you expect to have $5000 more than needed to get by, by the end of April. You'd be happy to take $1000 in March in the form of gift cards and have them redeemed in April. To be safe, though, I plan to wait a few months, and maybe space it out across a couple months.