Reward Moments: Favorite Redemption in 2025?

My best AARP redemption was for Home Depot.  I used towards an item for my son, and lowered the cost.

a sourdough baguette 🥖 from Panera for just one million points. actually do not recall the number of points but the $5.00 purchased the baguette 🥖 adding the 26 cents for tax. 

I really want to like this app and am hoping to find a favorite redemption. So far, I've only accidentally lost points when attempting to get more information about an offer. Would be nice if there was a check before points were deducted.

I'm pretty much over the whole rewards thing. Too many glitches this year with the site down for a long time, games that are supposed to provide rewards that don't, people who seem not to care when contacted by chat or phone, and the increase in points needed to redeem for anything without raising the maximum numbers of points that can be earned in a day. I do some of the games because they are fun and if I have any points I might redeem for a sweepstakes or instant win but in all the years I've been doing this I've only won one thing.  My time is too precious to waste on this non-rewarding rewards.

Absolutely nothing. My mom and I are trying to figure out exactly what it is we're getting other than the 548 life insurance offers Ive received in the mail since I joined. She's been a member longer than I have and other than constant mail from life and car insurance companies (and the car insurance is higher than we have without AARP connections...) we honestly have been asking ourselves why exactly we're spending the money. No restaurant gives any discounts based on AARP memberships here, and we have been asking ourselves why we're paying for nothing but mail we have to throw out.

My favorite rewards have been the two $10 cards for Walmart for points given as gifts this year that I gave yesterday!.  And the various restaurants and Amazon cards as well for points. Stacking restaurant cards has been fun when going out to dinner.  

I was very disappointed that I was not able to get a decent gift card with my points that I'd earned. To spend hundreds of the points to get a $10 card is ridiculous.

Although costly in points, I enjoyed redeeming points for the TJ Maxx gift cards. At $5.00 each, I was able to use them to buy a few $4.97 large bottles of Dr. Teal’s epsom salt bubble bath for myself, my daughters and my Mom. I also tried the ThredUp $10 one and traded up some clothes I was no longer wearing for a new Land’s end rain jacket and a pair of comfy Athleta pants. It’s fun to earmark the rewards for discounts on specific

items. 

Don't have any favorite.  Would like it if you would offer more magazines to select from.  Magazines that are down to earth like Taste of Home, Good Housekeeping, gardening magazine. The ones you offer are not really geared to the older generation. Thanks for looking into this.

     I enjoy when there is an Amazon gift card left to redeem. Unfortunately, only happened about 3 times this year.  Used to like when you could redeem points for things like wine glasses.

I like the ulta gift cards and used to like the Olive Garden.