# AARP: "It's time to renew your membership!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 22, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341 "2008-12-22T18:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/21 "2010-07-15T15:23:13Z")
Edit: Ugh, looks like I’m helping with the zombification. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/22 "2010-07-15T21:19:09Z")
> [@LVgeogeek](#): > > My husband got an invite to join AARP around his last birthday this past November, trouble is, he turned 33. So not even close to the AARP age. Very weird. Hell, I got one when I was nineteen. I carried the membership card around in my wallet for years as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/23 "2010-07-15T23:53:59Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Edit: Ugh, looks like I’m helping with the zombification. :smack: Heh, I missed that entirely. I’ll leave the thread open for now, though - it seems somewhat appropriate for a thread about the AARP. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/24 "2010-07-16T14:12:16Z")
Mr. Singular and I were advised by the receptionist at our dentist office to sign up since my company bennies are shot until January but our teeth are too stupid to know it. Is that a valid idea, fellow fogeys? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/25 "2010-07-16T14:24:48Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > \*“Dear Member, > It’s not too late to renew your AARP membership online - if you act now. Visit us here to renew and your access to AARP benefits like these will continue without interruption…” > \* > I’ve been getting these e-mails for the past couple of months. The problem is, my AARP membership doesn’t expire until next May. Are they counting on the possibility that my mental faculties are so deteriorated that, in a fit of panic, I’ll renew early? Probably they don’t want to chance getting their money on whether you’ll still be **alive** next May. Remember, this is the AARP. It is an organization that, by its nature, always has to worry about its membership, and its dues-revenue stream, declining by attrition. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/26 "2010-07-16T14:48:51Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Mr. Singular and I were advised by the receptionist at our dentist office to sign up since my company bennies are shot until January but our teeth are too stupid to know it. Is that a valid idea, fellow fogeys? Typically dental plans have an exclusion period, which means any pre-existing conditions won’t be covered for 12 months. Your State May Vary. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/27 "2010-07-16T17:10:55Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Here I assumed it’s because my husband is a “Junior” and thus is getting stuff that is supposed to be aimed at his dad. He also gets mailings about retirement homes, hearing aids, and mobility scooters. This has probably been going on since he was 30. I’m pretty sure that’s why I get that stuff…I’ve been getting all of that mail (not email, yet) for years and I’m not even 30 yet. ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/28 "2010-07-16T17:25:13Z")
I was pretty happy when I received my first invitation from the AARP–freshman year of college, 6 years ago. I assumed it meant my retirement was imminent. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341/29 "2010-07-16T17:25:32Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Reminds me of when I actually had magazine subscriptions. They’d harrass me for six months prior to the actual expiration. I renewed _The New Yorker_ last December for two years. I actually started getting renewal solicitations the next month. Yes, part of the the solicitation was trying to get me to give gift subsciptions, but at least make that request a clearly separate one from “You must renew . . . now!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aarp-its-time-to-renew-your-membership/478341.md?page=1)