Unused gift cards can feel like wasted money. Here’s what to do if you have them after a store goes out of business.

Ashley Battista Ridolfi had been saving her spa gift card for the final weeks of her pregnancy.

Ridolfi, 37, of Eagleville, thought of the unused gift card immediately when she saw an article earlier this week about“I had not had the opportunity to use it yet, and I was planning on using it in the next six weeks or so,” she said Thursday. “If you receive a gift card, you should try to use it right away,” said Chuck Bell, financial policy advocate at Consumer Reports. “Once you have it and they’ve gone out of business, you don’t have a lot of options.

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