Quote Originally Posted by Pembroke_Corgi View Post
You would not believe the amount of people we get selling (whether it's services, stuff, or religion) at our door. I absolutely hate it. When Lyra was a baby I had a sign on the door that said- "No soliciting, baby sleeping." I would have been livid if she had been woken up by someone knocking on the door (which causes a flurry of barking at our house). It seemed to work pretty well.

I just do not answer the door if it's someone I don't know. I don't want whatever it is they are selling. The one exception is if Lyra is napping, then I ask them them to leave as quickly and politely as I can, and explain that my daughter is asleep and I don't want her woken by the barking. Sometimes people still try to sell me stuff! I think that is so rude. Hmmm, maybe I should bring back that sign....
Talking about noise waking children from their naps. Years ago we were on an 8 party line. There were many different rings & ours was 3 rings. We also ended up hearing other peoples rings. I found out I could turn the ringer off with a little lever under the phone & I did.

We get the credit card interest rate, medicare insurance supplement, & political cause calls. Some even call back twice. Credit card I don't over extend & pay up on time, Medicare Insurance supplement, I'm on a fixed income excuse, I already have a plan for medicare excuse, & the politicians, you are already being paid to do your job so go do it.

Got a call, where someone would come & clean my rugs for free. I told them I don't have any rugs & don't even own my house. They hung up.

There are over 3 million people on the U.S alone that have jobs like this.