I got an AARP card in the mail?????!
#51
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My daughter received an AARP card 2 weeks before her 20th b'day. My husband began receiving cards from the age of about 48, but I never gave them to him because I didn't want to make him feel old- one day he did something to annoy me so I decided it was time to give him ALL his mail. He got back at me though - he enrolled ME!!!! We have never received more junk mail than we do from this organization and the discounts aren't anything to write home about. If it's discounts you want try AAA.
Personally I think AARP just buys address lists and does mass mailings to fish for new members.
Personally I think AARP just buys address lists and does mass mailings to fish for new members.
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Sounds like you're right about them buying mailing lists, though I suspect they try to buy ones where the people on them are generally of the right age. Otherwise, I'd have been getting their ads for years.
Re discounts, I have AAA and haven't found their discounts to be so great. I've used them for hotels, but most hotels will give you a better discount for almost any other reason (low occupancy that night, being in the military - and they will sign you up for the duration of your stay if you're not, can't even think of all the alternate reasons that got bigger discounts than AAA). Some, when they are too full, feel they have the right to refuse the AAA discount. It does come in handy at tourist attractions. They have good discounts for online stores, but I rarely shop online.
While I'm ripping into AAA, I was very unhappy when I renewed this year. I buy the premium level plan, so I can be towed up to 100 miles if I need it. Not that I've ever needed to be towed more than 3 miles, and that only twice in all the years I've had AAA, but I'm paying the $100/year just in case. So I was really unhappy when the woman said, "That gives you up to four tows for the year." Huh? I'd thought it gave me unlimited tows for the year. Again, not that I expect to need it, but if that's all I get, maybe I won't bother renewing next year. Compare the cost of one tow every several years with yearly premiums. My car insurance includes tows for accidents, and my tires have some kind of inner structure so I can drive on them when they're flat. So maybe I wasted the $100...
AARP's premium is a lot cheaper.
Re discounts, I have AAA and haven't found their discounts to be so great. I've used them for hotels, but most hotels will give you a better discount for almost any other reason (low occupancy that night, being in the military - and they will sign you up for the duration of your stay if you're not, can't even think of all the alternate reasons that got bigger discounts than AAA). Some, when they are too full, feel they have the right to refuse the AAA discount. It does come in handy at tourist attractions. They have good discounts for online stores, but I rarely shop online.
While I'm ripping into AAA, I was very unhappy when I renewed this year. I buy the premium level plan, so I can be towed up to 100 miles if I need it. Not that I've ever needed to be towed more than 3 miles, and that only twice in all the years I've had AAA, but I'm paying the $100/year just in case. So I was really unhappy when the woman said, "That gives you up to four tows for the year." Huh? I'd thought it gave me unlimited tows for the year. Again, not that I expect to need it, but if that's all I get, maybe I won't bother renewing next year. Compare the cost of one tow every several years with yearly premiums. My car insurance includes tows for accidents, and my tires have some kind of inner structure so I can drive on them when they're flat. So maybe I wasted the $100...
AARP's premium is a lot cheaper.
#53
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i would check with my insurance agent. i buy the top level also, but now you're making me wonder, and i plan to talk to mine.
all i know is i don't want to be stuck 600 miles from home because my station wagon (a while ago) died, have them tow me to the nearest station and then have to wait in the nearest dirty roach motel until the right part came in. two days later. i tell you, been there, done that. with two small kids. and it ain't gonna happen again. :evil:
not for any amount of money.
all i know is i don't want to be stuck 600 miles from home because my station wagon (a while ago) died, have them tow me to the nearest station and then have to wait in the nearest dirty roach motel until the right part came in. two days later. i tell you, been there, done that. with two small kids. and it ain't gonna happen again. :evil:
not for any amount of money.
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Originally Posted by Lisanne
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I gather that has changed and now people can belong at 50. Does that mean I'm going to be a senior citizen at 50????? I'm still getting used to reading glasses, kicking and screaming....
I gather that has changed and now people can belong at 50. Does that mean I'm going to be a senior citizen at 50????? I'm still getting used to reading glasses, kicking and screaming....
Remember: Your age is just a number. How old you are is in your heart.
#57
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Originally Posted by Shelley
Originally Posted by Sara Street
Well said, Shelley!
Ladies, the key here is do your homework! AARP would like you to think that they are the only thing out there! Good news is - you DO have a choice!
I encourage you to check out: http://www.americanseniors.org
Take care,
Sara
Ladies, the key here is do your homework! AARP would like you to think that they are the only thing out there! Good news is - you DO have a choice!
I encourage you to check out: http://www.americanseniors.org
Take care,
Sara
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
i would check with my insurance agent. i buy the top level also, but now you're making me wonder, and i plan to talk to mine.
all i know is i don't want to be stuck 600 miles from home because my station wagon (a while ago) died, have them tow me to the nearest station and then have to wait in the nearest dirty roach motel until the right part came in. two days later. i tell you, been there, done that. with two small kids. and it ain't gonna happen again. :evil:
not for any amount of money.
all i know is i don't want to be stuck 600 miles from home because my station wagon (a while ago) died, have them tow me to the nearest station and then have to wait in the nearest dirty roach motel until the right part came in. two days later. i tell you, been there, done that. with two small kids. and it ain't gonna happen again. :evil:
not for any amount of money.
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I am 67 and have been getting mail from AARP for years. I have chosen not to sign up because their magazine is too full of ads for pharmaceutical stuff. I don't take prescription meds at all. If I have a problem I use herbs, especially Chinese herbs. They always work for me.
But AARP won't get the message! Several times a year I get mail from them. What a waste of paper.
But AARP won't get the message! Several times a year I get mail from them. What a waste of paper.
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