# charter membership renewal - won't be on time **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 18, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318 "2012-05-18T14:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/1 "2012-05-18T14:42:30Z")
Question: My subscription expires on Sunday, but I don’t even have the extra little bit to renew it until the first of June. Will I still be able to be a charter member, if I wait until then to renew? I guess I wouldn’t mind ads until then. I still haven’t gotten used to budgeting my funds for an entire month instead of two weeks. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/2 "2012-05-18T15:05:51Z")
Gotcha covered. Pay it forward. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/3 "2012-05-18T15:06:19Z")
If it lapses you can still be a regular member when you go re-subscribe, but you’ll pay full price and you can’t get the Charter Member title back. ETA, or that could happen. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/4 "2012-05-18T16:10:01Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Gotcha covered. Pay it forward. Thanks, I will do so, **silenus** , and again, thank you so very much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/5 "2012-05-18T22:30:35Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Gotcha covered. Pay it forward. What if the charter membership was really for his bunny? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/6 "2012-05-18T22:48:35Z")
Well, thanks to Hugh Hefner during my formative years, I have a soft spot for bunnies. So no worries! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/7 "2012-05-19T04:49:41Z")
Aw, this is so cool. Thank you, silenus. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charter-membership-renewal-wont-be-on-time/622318/8 "2012-05-20T18:18:19Z")
::Sniff:: This is why the 'Dope is such a great site!