Gift cards

When we got married, my husband and I received tons of giftcards, especially to Target. Now, we use them to cheat sometimes on our budget. When my husband started really worrying about money at the beginning of this month, but our freezer supply of meat was all used up, I took a gift card someone gave us to a grocery store and stocked up. And we've been using Target gift cards on all sorts of stuff (one night I thought we needed a treat, so I bought frozen pizza). I know in the long term, we'll run out of gift cards, and will have to come to terms with a new budget, but for now it feels a little better to use gift cards when things feel bleak. Does anyone else ever do this?