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Oh my gosh. I love where we live, but I hate that because there are some fancy pants houses around here we have a literal stream of solicitation at our door. Charity, hot water tank, frozen food (I swear), religion, more charity, window cleaning, tree trimmers/yard work. It makes me bananas!!!!!! Does anyone else have a really busy neighbourhood like that and how do you deal with it? I literally just had to close the door in a guy's face and he kept talking. I've never been that rude to anyone at the door before. Usually I just take their info, and throw it in the recycling when they've gone, and we NEVER give money at the door.
We live in a community full of mormons and JWs. We're constantly getting them at the door. We might get the odd kid here or there doing a fundraiser, but that's about it!
One of the perks of living in an apartment building with a doorman - no solicitors!
Although I do get a lot of solicitation junk mail.
I live in a high rise dooman building in NYC so thankfully I don't get any. Not even menu's since my building is super strict about that. My parents, however, live in suburban PA in a wealthy neighborhood and get them constantly. So my Mom actually put a "No soliciting" sign on her front door! lol!
Maybe it's because I've only really lived in apartments, but I pretty much never get anyone at my door. Well, my downstairs neighbor came by last week asking for some vanilla, but that's it.
I"ve only gotten food drive fundraisers from the boy scouts and the local National Honor Society. But i've only lived in a house for a few months, I was in an apartment beforehand.
Non here in Florida because I live in a gated community.
but back in Upstate New York, I lived in a upperclass suburbanish small town and we had plenty of action. Fire fighters league, Police Union, Jehovas Witnesses, Boyscouts, random neighboors with kids involved with fundraisers. My mom still lives there and its died down a bit. Just every once in a while
We only get a few per year. We live in a townhouse community with a "No Soliciting" sign at the entrance. A few ignore it and come to the door. I try to ignore the door bell once I look out the window and see it is a solicitor. Girl scouts selling cookies I will always open the door for and buy a few boxes. :)
Ehhh, we get them every now and then, I'd say less than once a month, more like once or twice every two or three months. We live in a neighborhood that has a "No Soliciting" sign up, but obviously some slip through. It's usually the typical JWs or sometimes a random salesman.
I found out purely by accident, that the most effective way of having them not go into their whole spiel is to answer the door with a crying/fussy baby on your hip. They're all, "Hi, how are--Oh, we see you have your hands full. We'll just leave you this flyer and come back later." (Score!) They usually don't come back, lol.
We hardly get any except those religious ones, but I did just see the best sign on FB for that
"Unless you are selling thin mints - no soliciting"
AT&T has come by a couple of times pimping their cable service, but that's about it.
Lol, I think like 80% of the homes in my area are second or vacation homes. If we get a solictor twice a year, that's a big deal!
I guess my condo has a perk- no solitication!
At my old house I used to get them and it was hard for me as I'm too nice to tell them to go away.
We mostly get flyers attached to our door. They don't actually knock unless it's high school kids doing a fundraiser or something like that. Sometimes a guy selling magazine subscriptions or some type of telephone service comes around, but we usually never answer the door unless it's someone we know.
We live in an apartment so we don't get door-to-door solicitation, but every month or so when I am taking our dog for a walk, I will be approached by LDS missionaries making their way through the neighborhood... (Not sure why our 'hood is such a hot spot...) It is annoying and offensive to me, and they never take a simple "No thanks, not interested" (with a smile) for an answer! They continue to press me about my faith (or lack thereof), and it's like, damn - I'm just trying to enjoy the fresh air with my dog! I don't need saving, thankyouverymuch.
Do you have a "No Solicitors" sign up? If not, put one up, and if anyone ignores it, just open the door, point to the sign, and shut the door again.
Very occasionally does anyone knock on the door but we get a ton of flyers.
Oh gosh! I know how you feel! I get soooo many it's unreal... but we have learned that when we leave our dog outside in the back yard (we have a rotweiller), he usually hears them, and then runs to the side of the house and just starts barking at them. (we do have a fence but just hearing him barks, scares them off)They take off soo fast it's too funny. Look at his face! lol... when he starts barking, watch out hehehe
I have never had any show up at my house. I live practically in the middle of nowhere so most ppl have a hard time finding my house anyway lol. We also have a German Shepherd that is pretty good about "looking" tough. The cable guys, repairmen refuse to get out of their trucks unless I lock him up ;)
I don't in my area, but I have to knock on homeowners doors for my job. (hired out by their insurance company to udate files on the home)
I was really surprised at how suspicous people are around here of anyone knocking on their front door! There is very little soliciting in the area, so maybe thats why. Yesterday, I knocked/rang the bell and waited 3 minutes for someone to answer. The guy didn't come to the door, but I SAW him hiding inside. "whatever dude, I still have to snoop around your backyard unless you tell me to leave, so this is awkward...."
I live in an apartment so no solicitors here!! They are always hanging around my train station though. Ugh.
The solitication was so bad at my apartment that I ended up printing out a sign that said, "ABSOLUTELY NO SOLITICATION" and ever since then I've been fine. But I couldn't stand them constantly knocking at my door. It drove me crazy.
We get an occasional knock from a contractor who is doing work "in the neighborhood" and wants to give us a quote but worse is once in a blue moon the church of later day saints knocks. OMG. We have a sticker on the door from our own church take a hint! I am too nice I just listen, nod and take the pamplet but sometimes I want to slam the door and sometimes I just don't answer and hope they go away. Last time they sent well dressed 8 year olds...its so wrong =.=;
@couawilou: Nice!! I was just about to say something similar! "Good puppy...please don't eat me!"
We get high schoolers selling candy & magazines, along with some JW groups from time to time. They are all terrified of my dog (for some weird reason!). Well...he's huge and a bit hyper, so he is usually bouncing around as I hold onto his collar when I answer the door. The last time we had solicitors, my dog bounced up on his back legs to say "hi!" and smell them (though I had a good hold on him), and the guy yelped and scurried back down our aparment stairs!! Poor Nanuk only wanted to say, "hello!" and possibly lick them to death!!
We used to get them all the time when we first moved here. After I put up a "No solicitors" sign, we haven't had one since.
Ugh, we keep getting these people from about an hour away for carpet cleaning. They offer to do a room for free, but we don't know what the catch is yet. Why in the world would they be at our house when their business is located soooo far away??!
@couawilou: Thanks! Yours is too!! Such a sweet, happy smile! I LOVE big dogs!!! :)
@linguo42:I really need to put up a sign. It's so aggravating. There's one guy (a neighbour) that fundraises every year, he's the only one I've ever donated to at the door, mostly because he's a neighbour, but also his cause was awesome. One other kid gave me his website and I donated to his diabetes bike ride thingy after he left. That's it. 3 years. I had to tell a JW that she was barking up the wrong tree after her third unsuccessful visit. LOL! She wasn't getting the message. The gentleman with her actually laughed. I'll put a sign on the list for errands next week ;)
I live in the city and our complex has a locked gate. Someone would have to buzz them in and NO ONE will do that :D Its actually really nice knowing that the only visitors you will get are ones that are planned! If not, you dont have to buzz them in and they cannot even see whether you are home or not :) very private and I love that
He have probably had 3-5 people come to the door in the last 10 years! The houses are soo far apart around here and there is so much farms that they would have to walk miles to get to the next house, so they stick closer to the city.
Just answer the door naked lol they won't come back. Just make sure its not a kid selling chocolate bars haha. But yes put a no solicitors sign up, it will help, but also if they are being rude just be rude back to them and slam the door in their face if you have to.
@KatNYC2011: @moderndaisy: Same here! Doorman buildings are fantastic :)
We get one every couple weeks, usually boy scouts with popcorn, girl scouts with cookies, or school kids doing bottle drives, or selling chocolate. I almkst always give or buy when they come to the door - I had to do that fundraising as a kids and it blows, especially when no-one helps you out.
Never. We live in an apartment community + it's private property + it's gated...soooo that makes it quite difficult for solicitors to get to my door :)
The last solicitation we got was from some Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm not a very religious person, but I didn't feel I could send them away. There were some funny moments.
The man asked how I'd feel if I knew I'd been lied to about God. My cat, standing behind me, meows loudly and angrily. "I don't think my cat would like being lied to about God..."
Then he later mentioned having kids, and he said "or if you know someone that raises children". This made me think of a child-farm, raising them to just old enough to send off to the child-packing factory. It was hard not to giggle.
Before that, we had a person or two offer to clean our gutters, and before that, a politician. We've lived here about three years.
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