7 On Your Side: Don't delay using gift cards

Americans spend $100 billion a year on gift cards, and about $45 billion goes unused. It might be time to go through your old gift cards. A couple of them will expire soon if you don't take action now. Seven on your side's Michael Finney has the full report in the video story above.

The overall advice is always to use a gift card soon after receiving it, but now, for some gift cards, there is even more urgency. For the Radio Shack claim form, click here.

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