Discounts and memberships

Slow morning. School starts for me on the 17. Mary and I stayed up watching "Storage Wars" until the wee hours. Breakfast this morning is a hodge-podge of potatoes, onions and peppers with some mystery containers I found in the fridge. I was very tempted to chop a few cherries, but the pits made them more trouble than the added flavor would be worth?

As we start scheduling and making reservations for Christmas in New Orleans, we are thinking budget. It is a given that a week in NOLA will be expensive. Not many ways to avoid that. Mary's brother has been 3-4 times in the past 5 years. We know the French Quarter will cost $ for almost everything we want to see or do. We have heard the restaurants / bars all have a one drink minimum at $6.50 each. Some are said to have one drink per set where there are bands playing.
The Fires on the Levees will be just under $100 each, as will the riverboat dinner cruise. But sometimes you just have to go along with the establishment if you want the experience.
Then there's the fees for overnighting in NOLA. As much as I would like to hang out at a Wally World, Mary is insistant on staying at a "real" facility with hook-ups. The closer to the French Quarters the better.
We have a Good Sam card, but that only gets us a 10% discount. We have read about other discount membership groups that get you up to 50% for 1-10 day stays. We had made a mental note, and saved to favorites on our browser, several of these groups. It wasn't until this morning, while reading a post about membership clubs on RVNetwork that we realized one of these memberships MIGHT get us a discount while we are traveling this Christmas.
There are several campgrounds in NOLA that participate in different discount clubs. Two campgrounds are affiliated with the Camp Club membership offered through Camping World. The campground closer to the French Quater (French Quarter RV Park) accepts the Camp Club card for a 1 day at 50%. There is another RV park just off Lake Pontchatrain that accepts Passport America and they honor the 50% discount for up to a week stay (except holidays and special events). We are hoping holidays mean just the specific day the holiday falls on and not the entire week of the holiday. We called and left a message and hope to hear from the RV park by Monday regarding the terms of acceptance.
The balancing act of waiting to go full-time and actually being full-time on the road is delicate and fraught with financial decisions that you need to prioritize. These decisions and the list is constantly changing. The discount membership clubs are a perfect example. We knew they were there. We believe they can be very useful. But if we immediately think they do not apply to our PRESENT situation, we forget about them and miss out on the benefits.
We are learning that our preparation list has to be dynamic and evolving. Once we become complasiant about the list, the list becomes just a bunch of ideas we tend to overlook and soon we are doing another list that will face the identical fate--left for dead along the roadside.