Great 'What discounts can I get now I'm over 60?' Hunt

spitfire-Wilson

Little Chef do a discount card called Finetime and I believe this is for the over 50s (for certain dining times). Not to everyone's tastes I suspect!

cupcake4

"You don't always have to wait for an offer; I was at the deli counter in tesco, what I wanted was weighed and the server said "anything else?" "A discount" I queried, it was gone six and he just tapped the keys and 40% knocked off. Just for asking. OH cringed with embarassment
The only thing that is constant is change."

My motto is "don't ask, don't get" provided you do it with a nice smile.
I was in Tesco and the assistant was pricing down grapes. I asked how much as I didn't have my card with me and he replied, to my astonishment, "how much do you want to pay, is 40 pence ok?"
As the grapes were prepacked and looked fine, I was a happy bunny!:)

zygurat789

cupcake4 wrote: »

"You don't always have to wait for an offer; I was at the deli counter in tesco, what I wanted was weighed and the server said "anything else?" "A discount" I queried, it was gone six and he just tapped the keys and 40% knocked off. Just for asking. OH cringed with embarassment
The only thing that is constant is change."

My motto is "don't ask, don't get" provided you do it with a nice smile.
I was in Tesco and the assistant was pricing down grapes. I asked how much as I didn't have my card with me and he replied, to my astonishment, "how much do you want to pay, is 40 pence ok?"
As the grapes were prepacked and looked fine, I was a happy bunny!:)

Aren't you feeling a little bit guilty after this morning's announcement?

woolly_wombat

Any National Trust members considering joint senior life membership might be interested to know that to be eligible only requires "either partner to be 60+".

See:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/membership/
(click on "life membership" and move cursor over "joint senior").

We had to 'phone together in order to swap the main member from self (under 60) to OH (over 60).

We have been members for many years and thought it was worthwhile for £1,230 (individual senior life membership is a hefty £1,030).

WW

Herbyme

Just read that winter fuel payments are only for those born before July 1952, ie aged 62+ if I reckon rightly... and you have to get the state pension or another benefit:

https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/overview

woolly_wombat

carolinerunner wrote: »

Just read that winter fuel payments are only for those born before July 1952, ie aged 62+ if I reckon rightly... and you have to get the state pension or another benefit:

https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/overview

Don't worry, you can still get it if you're not on benefits, but you you won't get it automatically and will have to make a claim (the link you provided gives more details).

WW

Herbyme

Ah, point well made ww, hadn't read it closely enough. You get it AUTOMATICALLY if you get state pension or another benefit, but you qualify pretty much by being that age. You only have to be in the UK for one week in the September, so presumably you could do that, claim it all and then pop off to Benidorm on one of those 'whole-winter' deals, thereby spending no money on heating over the winter (stores thought away for future...)

TheCardcan

We have an over 60's "Wise Ones" discount card, although I don't know if they are still giving them out..

PennyForThem_2

Cineworld Cardiff do a Thursday film showing at 11 am for OAPs at £2.70 plus free tea/coffee and biscuits every week - apparently


I happened upon this when I wanted to go to Selma which was closing on a Thursday and as I had a day's leave I went to 11.00 am showing. Chock a bloc full of OAPs.


This is a massive good deal. Apparently they can also show pre-release films......


I have a cineworld premium card so can see any film (other than specials like opera, theatre) at any time free, so that was why so surprised to find myself in a cinema full (I mean no seats empty) of oaps

SALOPMAN

We have recently had to renew our National Trust membership - my wife is 60 and I am 59 (Im currently unemployed) so being out of work the £95 for the English NT was a tad hard to find, we learned from a friend that you can join Scottish Trust which has a reciprocal agreement with the English version allowing full free access both in Scotland and England for £46 - to be fair NT did offer a slight reduction when we phoned but we still saved about £35 by joining the Scottish one:rotfl: