Take Grandma along . . .

[dewdrop_me_a_line]

I posted over on the Newbie board. Ah, to be new at this grand age!

You know if you have a granny or an older (55+) neighbor, be sweet and invite her (or him) out shopping with you. All of my fav TS have senior discounts; some all the time, some on certain days. It can be as much as 40% off in my area.

My daughter and granddaughters won't go w/o me. It's our favorite weekend jaunt. It's usually lunch on the run of fast food so that we can cover more ground. The only problem is they have more stamina than I do. LOL!

dew

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Hey Dew, How ya doin'? Welcome!

You are going to love it here. You sound like a hardcore already, lol.

What do you like to thrift?

Ciao,
SeSo

[Femme1]

Hi Dew!

Nice to meetcha.  I'm waiting for my status as "senior citizen" in a few years.  The other day at Goodwill it was senior's day, and I stood at the cash register thinking, "Darn, I wish I was 55 already!" 

[ChrisMiss]

The big double nickel is coming up for me this summer.  I'll be glad to get all the discounts! 

[SecondhandSophisticate]

The big double nickel is coming up for me this summer.  I'll be glad to get all the discounts! 

Our birthdays are the same day, Chrismiss! If you're in the state this summer, can we go shopping together? (I am a few cents shy of the double nickel)  Xo, SeSo

[ChrisMiss]

The big double nickel is coming up for me this summer.  I'll be glad to get all the discounts! 

Our birthdays are the same day, Chrismiss! If you're in the state this summer, can we go shopping together? (I am a few cents shy of the double nickel)  Xo, SeSo

SeSo if I was in state I would love to go shopping on our birthday!  Think of the bargains, and a senior discount!  But I will be somewhere out west, just don't know where we will be at that time. 

Another major anniversary is coming this year too, it will be our 25th wedding anniversary in April.  I was hoping we'd be in Vegas and we could have Elvis remarry us but I think we'll still be in CA due to work.  Oh well we'll be together and that's all that matters.

[dewdrop_me_a_line]

The big double nickel is coming up for me this summer.  I'll be glad to get all the discounts! 

Our birthdays are the same day, Chrismiss! If you're in the state this summer, can we go shopping together? (I am a few cents shy of the double nickel)  Xo, SeSo

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SeSo if I was in state I would love to go shopping on our birthday!  Think of the bargains, and a senior discount!  But I will be somewhere out west, just don't know where we will be at that time. 

Another major anniversary is coming this year too, it will be our 25th wedding anniversary in April.  I was hoping we'd be in Vegas and we could have Elvis remarry us but I think we'll still be in CA due to work.  Oh well we'll be together and that's all that matters.

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Birthdays and anniversaries are such wonderful reasons to go find good deals. Congrats to both of you almost senior citizens and be sure to check out other discounts too. I am a member of AARP, the Local Chapter. I learned through them that a local burger chain (Burgerville) always has a 10% discount for over 50. The chain doesn't advertise it. I don't know how my chapter found out.

My point: it never hurts to ask.

Hugz
dew

[Jay2TheRescue]

The big double nickel is coming up for me this summer.  I'll be glad to get all the discounts! 

Our birthdays are the same day, Chrismiss! If you're in the state this summer, can we go shopping together? (I am a few cents shy of the double nickel)  Xo, SeSo

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SeSo if I was in state I would love to go shopping on our birthday!  Think of the bargains, and a senior discount!  But I will be somewhere out west, just don't know where we will be at that time. 

Another major anniversary is coming this year too, it will be our 25th wedding anniversary in April.  I was hoping we'd be in Vegas and we could have Elvis remarry us but I think we'll still be in CA due to work.  Oh well we'll be together and that's all that matters.

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Birthdays and anniversaries are such wonderful reasons to go find good deals. Congrats to both of you almost senior citizens and be sure to check out other discounts too. I am a member of AARP, the Local Chapter. I learned through them that a local burger chain (Burgerville) always has a 10% discount for over 50. The chain doesn't advertise it. I don't know how my chapter found out.

My point: it never hurts to ask.

Hugz
dew
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When I worked at Wendy's in college we gave 10% discounts to seniors, active duty military, and local firefighters, and EMT's while on duty.  Sherriff's dept. deputies on duty got 50% off.

-Jay

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Chrismiss, if you are down here in the latter part of 08, give me a holler! I would love to go over to the TampaBay area. It sounds like you score there big time!

You are welcome to come over here, but I can't guarentee anything but the pleasure of my company The big city is the place to be

OOOOOOOOOOOOO, Happy Anniversary!! Keep us posted on your groovy plans. Elvis is an excellent idea. BTW, there are Elvis's everywhere, not just in Vegas. One Elvis lives in my home town here. He came to vote in full Elvis regalia; I saw him while I was campaining for my councilperson.  When he drove by after voting, I said "Thankyou, thankyouverymuch" Seriously, though, the point I am trying to make is that you could probably rent an Elvis just about anywhere and have him--or her--officiate your wedding vows, at the location of your choice.

DH and I renewed our vows after 12 years. We had a Buddhist ceremony (we are not Buddhists) When we renew them again,  we will do something else.  We do it every 12 years. 

Dew, Thanks for the tips! DH and I are members of AARP and always ask about discounts when we travel. But you bring up an interesting point--Jay, Too:  Senior means different things to different organizations. AARP sez it's 50, GW says 55. Most of the Senior stuff here in SeniorLand has 60 or 62 or even 65 as the magic number.

I went to an Native American "Gathering of the Tribes" and the entry man asked me if I were a "senior" I answered him with my age at that time and he said: "I appreciate the fact that you are proud of your age. Native Americans honor Senior Citizens,--elders, unlike this culture" and let me in for the Senior rate. I was very touched! Their threshold was 55--or double nickels.

xo to all you wonderful folk, young/old/inbetween
SeSo



 

[ChrisMiss]

Yes, that is a good point to always ask for any discounts.  Many places give a military discount but as mentioned it don't advertise it.  Hubby is retired military so is eligible for those.  I believe that Home Depot or Lowe's also gives a military discount that you don't know about unless you ask and we usually forget to ask about it when there.

Our anniversary will probably be celebrated in the evening on the beach in California.  It falls on a Wednesday so hubby will be working that day but after work we'll do something special.  He has a convention to be at in early April and then we plan on seeing some sights around there, go up the coastline, admiring the beach, see the Reagan library and a few other places that I can't remember.  We also want to see Death Valley, Mono Lake, and Yosemite again.  All that is probably in April so this year we'll be busy campers.  I hope I can get some shopping in too.

SeSo, 2008 fall/winter when we're in the Tampa area again I'd love to take you to some of my favorite thrift stores.  We can shop till we drop!

[Jay2TheRescue]

Chrismiss, if you are down here in the latter part of 08, give me a holler! I would love to go over to the TampaBay area. It sounds like you score there big time!

You are welcome to come over here, but I can't guarentee anything but the pleasure of my company The big city is the place to be

OOOOOOOOOOOOO, Happy Anniversary!! Keep us posted on your groovy plans. Elvis is an excellent idea. BTW, there are Elvis's everywhere, not just in Vegas. One Elvis lives in my home town here. He came to vote in full Elvis regalia; I saw him while I was campaining for my councilperson.  When he drove by after voting, I said "Thankyou, thankyouverymuch" Seriously, though, the point I am trying to make is that you could probably rent an Elvis just about anywhere and have him--or her--officiate your wedding vows, at the location of your choice.

DH and I renewed our vows after 12 years. We had a Buddhist ceremony (we are not Buddhists) When we renew them again,  we will do something else.  We do it every 12 years. 

Dew, Thanks for the tips! DH and I are members of AARP and always ask about discounts when we travel. But you bring up an interesting point--Jay, Too:  Senior means different things to different organizations. AARP sez it's 50, GW says 55. Most of the Senior stuff here in SeniorLand has 60 or 62 or even 65 as the magic number.

I went to an Native American "Gathering of the Tribes" and the entry man asked me if I were a "senior" I answered him with my age at that time and he said: "I appreciate the fact that you are proud of your age. Native Americans honor Senior Citizens,--elders, unlike this culture" and let me in for the Senior rate. I was very touched! Their threshold was 55--or double nickels.

xo to all you wonderful folk, young/old/inbetween
SeSo



 

I think the official age was 55, but as long as someone asked for it, and they looked old I gave it to them.  Sometimes they wouldn't ask for it, then come back to the counter 20 minutes later and I'd have to void the ticket to give them the discount.  After a while I gave it to anyone who was obviously old enough for the discount, and then I had some who were old enough for the discount, yet were insulted that I gave it to them.  I'm glad I don't have to deal with that anymore.

-Jay

[ChrisMiss]

Sunday is senior discount day at my favorite thrift store in Tampa.  I was in there recently and the cashier hesitantly asked me if I was 55.  She was probably scared I was going to bite her head off for even suggesting I look that old.  But she was a sweetheart, when I told her I still have a few months before I'm 55 she wanted to get the manager and ask if I could have the discount anyway.  I told her that I felt like the items I was purchasing had great prices already or I wouldn't be buying them.  I could wait until I was "legally" a senior to get a discount.

There is a store here in Florida called Bealls (pronounced Bells) and one of their commercials had a matronly senior woman buying clothing, a tiny bikini, a halter top, t-shirt with something on it like Sexy, etc.  The sales clerk asked her if she found everything she was looking for as she was eyeing all these items.  Then a teenager spoke to the customer calling her Grandmother.  The announcer told what day senior discounts were.  It was funnier to see than me to write because I've forgotten half of it.  Is this a pre-senior moment?

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Chrismiss, I saw the same commercial and either both of us are having pre-senior moments or that's exactly how the commerical happened 'cause that's how I remember it, too, LOL! It is a cute commercial. Beall's age for "seniors" is 50, at least it was a few years ago, after DH turned 50.  They never ask me, though. I have to show them my license and AARP card. Or bring the husband with me. Goodwill just says "Any discounts?" 'cause you could be in your 40s and a "stoo-dent", yes, and get a stoo-dent's discount of 10%. And my understanding of this discount (someone correct me if I am wrong) at the GW if you are an over-55 student you get both discounts?? 

[ChrisMiss]

Now that is a better way to ask someone just ask "Any discounts?"  That way no one gets insulted.  I don't know about GW allowing a customer to use 2 discounts but it doesn't sound like something that any business would do. 

[dewdrop_me_a_line]

I do know the GW gives me my senior discount and also scans my GW Club card for another 5% if I've spent over $15.

dew