Keep or save vouchers ?!

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I work in a lovely school and have been very fortunate over the last year to receive thank you vouchers at christmas and the end of term, I decided last year I would save the vouchers as we are TTC and it would be great towards baby stuff, my salary isn’t huge my partner is the breadwinner so to speak and I thought it would be a nice way for me to contribute to some of the baby stuff! Fast forward a year we are two years in TTC with no baby and one CP, i still have the vouchers, and have been adding to them (a rather sad reminder that no baby is on the horizon haha) I very VERY rarely treat myself as I have a son (9) by a previous partner, partner and I are going on holiday next month and a part of me is thinking F it buy some lovely bits treat yourself etc and have an amazing holiday. But in the back of my head I also think it’s your contribution financially to the baby (albeit that isn’t here yet) haha. What do I do? Decision making is not a strength of mine! haha!

Check the expiry date on them, sometimes its only a year.

If you can spend the vouchers on things you'd buy anyway I'd definitely do that - if the vouchers go out of date or the businesses go under then you'll lose the value.

If you could do this and save the amounts it would at least make the value secure.

Fuck it, treat yourself now.
If you’ve been adding money to the vouchers just start putting any money you would have added from now on into a savings account or any bank account.

They normally come with an expiry date use them while you can

Martin Lewis has said in the past to prioritise using vouchers first. Mainly because if the retailer goes bust and you haven't used them you're stuffed.