General Discussion

At 55, I did the 3 year discount.
Never got a penny of value & the magazine went from interesting to 40% ads in that 3 years.
I went nowhere where the AARP discounts were valuable. Our negotiated corporate rates at hotels and fir rental cars were almost always better than the AARP discount. So even though I traveled a lot, I got nothing for my money.
Then, they bragged about their success in financial terms when a 501c4 is supposed to be nonprofit.
It felt like a racket at that point.
Like you, I never renewed. But, I wasted 3 years of membership, not just one.