Site: AAFES Gift Cards for Troops

URL: https://shop.aafes.com/gcs/default.aspx

Brief Summary: Want to send a gift to our troops?  You can through AAFES!

More Info: This week I begin a series of websites that you can use to send gifts to support other people.  These are great ideas for when you want to get a gift for someone but don’t know what to get them or they already have everything. These ideas allow you to send a gift to someone who needs it and will help make the world a better place.  Just let the person you wanted to give a gift to know that you gave a gift to someone who really needed it.

This week is a service through AAFES and the Red Cross. For those who do not know AAFES is the Army and Air Force Exchange Service – the main shopping place for the military.  Normally only military members can shop at their stores and their website. There is an exception for gift cards though – that anyone can buy them.

The first option would be to buy a gift card through them, have it shipped to you, and then send it to a soldier you know.  My sister knows all about this – right? 🙂

The other option is for those of you who don’t know a military member personally but still want to help out.  You can purchase a gift card and the American Red Cross will get it to a person who needs it.  You can designate your card to go to military troops in Iraq or Afghanistan, Air Force members and their families, wounded or ill service members, and a variety of other options.  Check out the website for all the options you can use to donate a gift card.

So, when it comes time for Christmas shopping this year, remember the best gift you give someone, may be the gift you give to some other person.  Today’s option and the ones I will cover in the following weeks, I would be perfectly happy knowing that instead of getting me a gift, you gave someone else a gift who needs it more.