Close to Home by John McPherson for July 12, 2009

I feel the same way. I turned 49 this year.

Joe, you’re a mere babe.

Barb, you’re freaking out your children.

I wasn’t quite so violent with my first AARP card, I just laughed & shredded it. & every one since.

One thing about it ,they coming in the mail like virus.

Boy!!! You can say that again! I have been shredding their *%#@ blankety blank mail for more years! These people are the most obnoxious over-priced insurance company on earth!! I tear up their stuff and place it in the postage paid envelope that they send and they still send more!!

If they were the last insurance company on earth, i would have nothing to do with them!!!

Just take a trip to California and leave them behind:

♪♫..I left my AARP, in San Francisco…♪♫

Hey older is better. I’m recently semi-retired; not by choice. Budget cuts. Wouldn’t want to go back full time now. Senior discounts are a nice perq.

Hey, I initially reacted the same way, but I’ve been saving over $700/yr on my insurance for ten yrs now. Can you imagine the sweet vacation I be taking with that money?

my wife passed away 9 years ago and they are still sending her applications

After she died some 12 years back at the age of 89 she still gets there mailings so we just – state DECEASED on their junk, stuff all it back into their Pre-paid then return the whole package to them – this has gone on now for the past 12 years plus 4 years before she pasted away!!! Maybe some day they will have a REAL person open one of these and see that they can REMOVE her from their mailing list - DUH!!!!!! Don’t Hold Your Breath?

Joe / Margueritem: It could be worse, I have been receiving them now for the past three years. I just turned 24.

jolly1995— come on , quit being so subtle, how do you REALLY feel about aarp?

I resisted for a couple years, didn’t want to admit I was of age to enroll, but finely did. The membership itself is cheap and there are discounts for hotels, meals, some puchases, etc. And a good magazine with lots of good stories, etc. Don’t really know about the insurance end of it.

I lived in Va for 21/2 years, but never received an AARP card. I am now living in Canada again and with the help of your comments I think I now understand this comic.

Got my first AARP card recently (turning 50 this month) but it went into the shredder. Their discounts, insurance, etc. might be nice, but I have a real problem with supporting the socialist lobbying they do.

How much did AARP pay to have its name featured in this comic strip?

Getting the AARP card wasn’t traumatic. What’s traumatic is now I keep getting ads for hoverounds.

I’m a member because I save more than my membership dues each year on lodging when we go on vacation. I’m only 53 and won’t be able to retire for a long time, but I still like the discounts. I don’t buy the insurance though. The ads for it are good for lighting the fireplace.

For her 50th birthday, Mom got a card with a black and white picture of a wizened old man on the front. The inside said, “Don’t worry, 50 isn’t as old as it used to be.”

Saved 400 a year on the car Ins. going for the homeowners as well