I don’t know who came up with gift certificates, but they should receive an award for one of the best marketing jobs ever pulled on the unsuspecting public. How else can you explain how people are willing to trade money, for a less useful and more restrictive form of money at a one-to-one…

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” – Henry David Thoreau “Much of our activity these days is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life.” – Unknown “The things you own end up owning you.” – Tyler Durden in Fight…