<p>AAA btw has been one of our best purchases ever.
Just within the last year, they’ve towed my husbands truck home, my father in laws truck back to his house ( after H had been working on it) and made me a new electronic key when mine vanished.</p>
<p>Dunkin Donuts offers a 10 per cent discount and you bet I take it! My supermarket offers a 5 per cent discount one day a week, but it’s not a convenient day for me, so I don’t take advantage of it. I also use the Amtrak discount and the one offered by our local movie theaters. I can’t imagine why anyone would pass up a lower price. Denial? Vanity?</p>
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<p>It doesn’t make you younger either. :)</p>
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<p>I had this link bookmarked from the last time we had a discussion like this. I’m not sure if the discounts are still the same but it’s worth a look.</p>
<p><a href=“Senior Discounts at Restaurants Nationwide”>http://frugalliving.about.com/od/frugalseniors/a/Senior_Discount.htm</a></p>
<p>When we were on vacation we found some places we stayed offered better discounts with AARP and other were better with AAA. We have both, I plugged both in when I researched places to stay. We have never been contacted by a funeral home or reverse mortgage company. They do a lot more than offer discounts and spam(?). They have information about social security, healthcare and defensive driving.They also have a volunteer program something like Americorps and do some legislative advocacy, but hey, if they offend you, no one is forced to join.</p>
<p>I am a little younger than some of you - I turn 50 this year. I can’t even type that without thinking … huh? 50? How did that happen? I remember being a little girl and celebrating my <em>grandfather</em> turning 50. I don’t know how this happened. And no, I don’t remotely feel like a senior. </p>
<p>Thanks for your responses and although I don’t like the day, thank you for the bday wishes. :)</p>
<p>So,happy to hear that others like me, seem not interested in being singled out. Also giving some thought to the things other said - like sseamom and her father who died young, but enjoyed the years he had. </p>
<p>Also sounds like “55” is not the magic number for many senior perks. So perhaps, I have a few more years to decide if I’m ready to wear the senior hat. :)</p>
<p>H and I are 58. We look younger than we are. Now and then I ask how old I have to be for the senior discount, but not much around here for 55. We did ask when we were purchasing season theater tickets; lo and behold it was 55! We were so delighted (because we saved quite a bit) to be eligible! I offered to show ID, but ticket agent said no. If we were that happy, we must be that old.</p>
<p>Our youngest graduates HS in 2016. She keeps us young, so we really don’t feel old. Yet.</p>
<p>have never been contacted by a funeral home or reverse mortgage company</p>
<p>Some of that is zip code.
When we moved to our neighborhood we were in our mid 20’s, but it was known for elderly Scandinavians, so we had all kinds of offers that were perhaps better suited to our grandparents.</p>
<p>I turned 63 today and don’t mind using senior discounts when I remember about them; they’re sort of the opposite end of child discounts. My birthdays upset me not because I’m growing older per se, but that I have dreams and goals that keep getting deferred by outside factors and I’m afraid I’ll never get there before I really am too old to enjoy that life.</p>
<p>I do think I look younger than my age (as did my mother and grandmother) but don’t really care if others learn I’m older than I look. DH and I are essentially retired and we don’t have the income that we did in the past, so every little bit helps. I haven’t joined AARP because (1) we have AAA and (2) I think they’re essentially lobbists. I only wish I remembered to ask more often - went to a juried craft fair in New Hampshire and they asked at the desk if I was eligible for senior; saved a few bucks.</p>
<p>I believe this list came from another cc’er (the memory goes in our old age) but its a teriffic list! <a href=“https://www.onmogul.com/articles/this-list-of-senior-discounts-for-people-over-50-might-be-the-best-thing-you-learn-all-day”>https://www.onmogul.com/articles/this-list-of-senior-discounts-for-people-over-50-might-be-the-best-thing-you-learn-all-day</a></p>
<p>Happy birthday Marilyn!</p>
<p>abasket, I’m quite a bit older than you are and so is DH. We are both lucky that we look younger than we actually are. We also have children who just graduated from college as we are “older parents.” 
DH signed up for AARP as soon as he heard from them at age 50 and I throw out everything from AARP as soon as it comes in and don’t take advantage of senior discount days at supermarkets, etc. Call it vanity, call it whatever you want. I have ZERO interest in letting anyone know how old I really am. I think I inherited this from my mother. :D</p>
<p>I’m 52 and looking forward to senior perks. My friend who is 55 joined the local community center with me. I paid $75, she paid $20. I don’t have any problem telling people my age; I never have and don’t think I will have a problem with it in the future.</p>
<p>Oh you young whippersnappers!</p>
<p>I’m happy to take any discounts I can get. My Mum would have been insulted to be offered senior citizens discounts even in her 80s when she was still healthy. Now at 91and in a care home (now that’s a place we could use a discount on) she was surprised when I said something happened 50 years ago as she sais she hasn’t turned 50 yet. (She still recognizes my brother (63) and I (61) - couldn’t help thinking she must think we’ve aged horribly if we’re her children & she’s not 50 yet!)</p>
<p>But a couple of $$s off here and there - I’m not offended at all</p>
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<p>At age 65, you get government-provided medical insurance (Medicare).</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking about this and maybe I’d be more upset if I was asked if I want the senior discount. But as of right now, I have to do the asking. Last month I had a medical procedure that required my signing a form assuring them I wasn’t pregnant. I guess the forms lady forgot to look at my chart. When I asked why she said “everybody under fifty has to sign this.” I assured her that I was way, way past that number. </p>
<p>I have zero interest in hiding my age. Since I have a 35 year old son, it would be difficult to claim I was in my 40s anyway. </p>
<p>You don’t have to join AARP to get most discounts. You just have to be willing to take it or ask for it. Once I asked at a movie theater if I needed proof and they said that if we were willing to ask, they were willing to give it to us.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen forms that assume everyone over 50 is through menopause.
I’m 56 and just started this yr.</p>
<p>ummmmm… ok.</p>
<p>Why would you think physicians should make assumptions based on chronological age and not condition & history?
:-/ </p>