Over 50? Join AARP

If you are over the age of 50 and have not joined AARP you are crazy. At $12.50 a year (that price goes down when you pay for more then one year at a time; example: pre pay 5 years of membership) it can pay for itself. I will be the first to admit that AARP needs to add some more discount offers for its members, but what they offer now it still worth it ( if enough members email them about it might add some more, hint, hint).

You also get a subscription to AARP's Newsletter and Magazine; they are both good reads and full of useful information.

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I recently learned that you do not have to be 50 to join; people under 50 can become "associate members (they do not get a membership card)". These type of members do not get to use all the benefits that full members do (contact AARP's customer service for details on associate memberships).

You can get around this. If a person 50 years old (and up) gets a membership they usually get a second membership free and that typically goes to their spouse. However, in my dad's case, his is a widow, so he asked if I could get the second membership. He told them how old I was (21 at the time) and the CR said it was okay. I got a membership card and everything. I email AARP's customer service and asked if I (being the age I was) get the same AARP benefits as my dad, and I do since I got my membership through him.

I think it is funny, I am probably the only person to be an AARP member at age 21, and if you think about it, I will of probably end up breaking some kind of membership record, lol. At 50 I will have been a member for 29 years.