Close to Home by John McPherson for March 22, 2013

i’m almost 60…still not a member…

My boss at work received an invite to join AARP. She was 28 at the time (I was [mumbled number] years older than she was and nearer to eligibility.)

I just ignored those things. They eventually stop sending them if you do.

got my first one when I turned 45

Stuff the self-addressed physically full of everything you can fit in it. They have to pay the postage. Eventually they get the message.

I’ve been getting invitations a sporadically since my mid 20s. I suffer with osteoarthritis/chronic pain and somehow they found out. I went on disability because of it in 2007 and they’ve bombarded me almost daily since. I’m 42 in May, which I would’ve considered AARP old when i was a kid, but now that 40 is the new 20……..

Shredder food. They’ll never get a dime out of me.

AARP (Again Another Repulsive Promotion)

I was a member for awhile but realized that I really didn’t like their policies. So I just didn’t renew. This was 3 or 4 years ago and I’m still getting membership cds in the mail for my husband and me. They get shredded. Thanks to 440 RoadRunner, I’m going to check out AMAC.

My husband (the OTR driver) asked me to get an AARP card so he could get the discount at Denny’s

I joined AARP. In 1990 I paid for a life membership for myself and my wife. Guess what? A few years later they “lost the records” and won’t even admit thatb I exist today.

The answer to Social Security’s under funding.

LOL @ SaraRundle….

Granted their over-mailings can be annoying, but they can’t be beat on airline tickets, etc. I have been a member for 30 years, and pick and choose what I wish to get from them. I do not contribute to their “causes,” except for the low membership fee.

Ugh. As soon as you turn 50 — here they come!!

Been receiving their junk mail for years, and i shred it and return it to them in their own postage paid envelope. They stand to make billions on ‘bo careless’ aka obama care. Ha ha they have to pay the postage again and again…..it’s good for the Post Office.

I just got my first AARP invitation just a few months ago and I’m 30 yrs old!

I didn’t start getting the “invites” until I turned 50. Never joined but they send me their magazine and newspaper every quarter. Talk about a poorly run, totally inefficient organization, geez! They also supported Obamacare, so that alone gave me reason not to join.

And if you want great discounts, and good deals, join AAA, THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. Or your State’s Farm Bureau. PA has a great Farm Bureau with all sorts of benefits, and you don’t have to be a farmer to join..

Dry: Watch out for those. Farm Bureau is the chief lobby for agribusiness and dedicated to the extinction of the family farm. AARP is an insurance company and has a vested interest in the preventing the system that makes the rest of the overdeveloped world healthier than us (remember, Obamacare still keeps insurance company control over our health, which is the only reason they support it). And the Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to the extinction of free enterprise businesses and the ultimate control by a junta of multinational corporations. Even wolves avoid those sheep’s clothing.

ahab: The Nazi Revolutionary Army never sends me anything (except a hit squad once – the police got there first, in marked cars), despite the fact that I own a couple of guns. I guess flintlocks are not military enough these days.