Have you ever wondered how AARP knows who is turning 50? There must be multiple databases out there of personal information that they have access to. Those “turning 50” invitation packets (so many trees sacrificed…) arrive the week before that fateful big 5-0 day. With the number of Baby Boomers turning 50 every day, (I’d love to know the exact statistic), that is too many trees just to get one postcard back. Umm, people? There’s this thing called email.

On second thought, I get too much email, including the unsolicited kind. Like the time I was considering moving out west. You wouldn’t believe the number of California Life Insurance quote messages I received. How did they know? At least those have finally stopped. But about once a week I get a pitch from a national life insurance company via snail mail.

Maybe that’s good. When they stop sending to me, will it mean I’m too old to insure? Don’t even want to go there.