No Solicitors - Please!

[rancher hicks]

Well now I have to confess when I was a kid we used to go door to door selling aprons and pot holders my mother made. We were poor and needed the money.
Some people are just to pushy for their own good. When he got to the you have goats but you won't buy magazines that would have been the end of the conversation.
As for the Jehovah's witness I used to study with them and went door to door once. Never, never, never, even let them begin a conversation or except any of their literature. Don't try to be nice, just close the door.
If they ask you if your concerned about the current state of affairs, say no I've got it taken care of thank you. If they say how? Say just like you I throw some manure on it, now get off my porch.

 

[Dinkadoo]

I don't even go to the door. If I want what they are selling I have enough sense to find it and buy it myself. Besides I have a two small house dogs that sound like they are six feet tall and nothing is going to come in the yard without them letting you know it. I have had people come on the porch and then run when my two dogs started to bark in the house.

 

[purr]

the other day I got a call from a woman who's son was on playing hockey asking for a donation because the parents couldn't afford the equipment. I simply told her we didn't put my grandson in hockey because we couldn't afford it we put him in soccer instead and did she want to donate to that league.
But where are the days when kids and parents actually had a bake sale or car wash and earned the money.Why does everyone think begging is a suitable option.I would much rather buy a box of girl scout cookies than just put money in a can for the kid outside the grocery store.This is part of the reason some kids have a ridiculous sense of entitlement.

 

[rhondapiper]

My mom, adecorative painter, made me a very pretty welcome sign, adorned with flowers, that reads "Welcome. You have 5 seconds to state your business."

I lived in an overcrowded townhome community for ten years, and it was nonstop solicitations, with some of the solicitors becoming downright threatening. Now that I'm in the country, I've had one in the past year, and he was a heating oil salesman from a great local company, so he actually got my business.

It helps that my dog is really, really threatening. Regular visitors like delivery men and the pizza guy are instructed that her bite is worse than her bark, and her bark is bad enough, and to stay outside the range of her electric fence.

Everyone else is just told to 'back off before the dog gets ya'

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

When I lived out in the sticks we didnt get anyone but now that I live in town we get tons of people. Lots of Mormons and Jehovas Whitness types. I dont care for the Jehovas but for some reason the Mormon religion facinates me, I dont know why. So when they come by I ask them weird questions and if they are related to some other mormons I know. I normally scare them off when I ask why they have so many wives (Sorry Mormons, no offence, I have mormon friends).

Then we get tons of other people like people to mow our lawn, people to fertilize it, people to trim bushes, all that. When they do that I tell them how insulted I am because I just spent 4 hours slaving out there to get it to look like that, they then give me a sorry look and slink away like a coon that just got caught in the coop.

Sometimes with solicitors I keep the screen closed and act like I cant hear them. A favorite thing to do is speak Russian to them. Sometimes I will just say random words in sentences or say something cruel but sound nice. Most of them cant speak Russian but there were a couple that spoke like 3 words of it.