A Perfect Mother’s Day Gift: The Library Project Gift Cards

In typical “me” fashion, I’m figuring out my Mother’s Day gifts at the very last minute. Being that I’m nearly 12,000km from my mom doesn’t make it any easier. My standard go-to is FTD.com where I can browse through a few dozen flower arrangements, settle on something I think is pretty and says “mom” and order everything online. But this year something stopped me.

I sat there on the check-out screen looking at the fact that for a lack-luster bundle of flowers that might live out the end of the week I was going to need to pay an additional 50% in service charges and surcharges. I certainly don’t mean to sound cheap, but when you’re already paying $50-100 on well-arranged garden trimmings, tacking on another $20-25 in charges seems excessive. … [visit site to read more]