I have my own religion, thank you.

[Princes mom]

Originally Posted by nana911

I've always worked shifts. I put a very legible sign on my door. Do not disturb, day sleeper. Most solicitors, religious or otherwise, do not want to knock, ring or in any way want to deal with a ticked off homeowner they just woke up after clearly reading a sign that said not to. Once or twice in the last thirty years I've had to answer the door, disheveled, and the words are you f**king kidding me? usually sends them on their way.

I have a friend that raises and trains GSDs and he had a couple of Witnesses that persisted on coming in to his home. He finally relented. He was on his way to work and they insisted they wouldn't take much of his time...yeah, right. Eventually, (they were sitting on his couch) he put his Alpha dog in a sit, stay, watch, guard mode and left for work. If the guests so much as moved the dog would pin its ears back and bare its teeth. They sat there until his wife got home from work, 2 hours later, and released the dog. They never returned, word got out to the rest of the church and they were never bothered again.

Mormons are always polite, neatly dressed, usually cute and yes, take no for an answer. The city I live in doesn't allow anyone, religious or business to go door knocking without a permit from city hall which means they've had a background check and paid a fee. Otherwise we go after them, cite them and kick them out. Makes it nice.

I'm at that point!

[YorkieRose]

I stopped it by saying..."I will be happy to take your reading material if you take mine"....I have several plastic bags in a closet with phamplets from the foyer of our last 2 churches...

Everyone agrees to disagree and go our separate ways...

[Lorraine]

My sign reads

No Soliciting no religious groups
If you haven't been invited
You aren't welcome
So go annoy someone else.

Pizza delivery guy cracked right up and one person stole the sign somewhere and I put up another one.
sEems to work though.
If particularly persistent you could disconnect the wire on your doorbell on sundays. They won't know it isn't ringing.

One grooming client I have has a daycare. Her sign says,
Babies sleeping, you ring the bell and wake them you get to come in and rock them back to sleep.

[nana911]

Originally Posted by Princes mom

I'm at that point!

Yeah, I try real hard not to take the Lord's name in vain. But I think 4-letter words are just a matter of opinion.

Anyway, I consider myself spiritual, not religious and in the matter of ""what would Jesus do?"", ""what would Muhommad do?"", ""what would Buddha do"", etc... I don't know.....

What I am pretty sure of is that none of the above would be going door to door knocking, looking for disciples. They all had people come to them.

[Lorraine]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

That is another bug of mine. I don't mean to offend anyone, but seriously what kind of person takes a job like that? Harrassing people?? You say no thank you and they persist....just one question they all say. No...NO questions...leave me alone. sheesh

True and on the flipside so annoying when I go to a store and can't find one employee to help me find what I am looking for.
They either hound you to death or can't be found anywhere.

[nana911]

Originally Posted by Lorraine

True and on the flipside so annoying when I go to a store and can't find one employee to help me find what I am looking for.
They either hound you to death or can't be found anywhere.

Ain't that the truth!

[Wylie's Mom]

Originally Posted by BamaFan121s

I have found that a few strategically placed pentagrams and some fake blood around our door usually do the trick.

Originally Posted by Lorraine

My sign reads

No Soliciting no religious groups
If you haven't been invited
You aren't welcome
So go annoy someone else.

Love it.

We don't answer our door if we're not expecting anyone. Not only bc I can't stand being solicited...but also bc I don't support pushing religion on others, no matter the reason. (and, this should go without saying...but I'll say it anywho...I mean no offense by that statement, but it is how I feel/believe)

[Princes mom]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Love it.

We don't answer our door if we're not expecting anyone. Not only bc I can't stand being solicited...but also bc I don't support pushing religion on others, no matter the reason. (and, this should go without saying...but I'll say it anywho...I mean no offense by that statement, but it is how I feel/believe)

When I saw that you were the last poster, I thought you closed the thread.

[yorkieusa]

So funny that today I find this thread. I come home for lunch and as I was leaving to go back to work I noticed a pamphlet on the front porch. I was in a hurry, so I didn't pick it up until I came home this evening. Yep! It was from that group that always comes by here - not as often these days as they did years ago. It reminded me that they used to come on Saturday mornings - early - and when I was much younger I liked to sleep late and on more than one occasion they woke me up! Anyway, on with my story...they used to come by on Saturday mornings quite frequently to leave pamphlets and solicit money. Then we started noticing they would go to a restaurant that we used to frequent on Saturday evenings. I had to wonder if they were dining on their donations!

[Sandysbabies]

I am still recovering from surgery and so I don't answer the door unless it is someone we know. Someone opened our storm door to use the door knocker and jiggle the door. Almost give me a heart attack. Ever since then we even keep the storm door locked. They never tried the door bell. Sometimes I wish ours was disconnected. I think that is going alittle far to open your glass door and try to see if the door was locked. Scary!!!!!

[Cares4Dogs]

Put up a sign on the door that says do not disturb..in isolation due to illness

[lil fu fu girl]

Honestly.....I tell them the truth that I am Hindu, and that.........that usually leaves them speechless so I can close the door.

[MeganS]

I'm Mormon, so I of course have no problems with the missionaries coming to the door haha. Though from what I understand the church's missionaries are pretty good at taking no for an answer.

We had the Jehovah's Witnesses come to our door a few times. I thought they were polite. They offered me their pamphlet and I told them i'd be happy to take it if they would take a copy of the Book of Mormon (I really would have taken their paper, too!). They haven't been back since then.

To me, the most obnoxious was after a huge storm a tree took out our roof, and the next mroning DOZENS of business folks stopped by to offer us their wonderful deals to fix our roof.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by MeganS

I'm Mormon, so I of course have no problems with the missionaries coming to the door haha. Though from what I understand the church's missionaries are pretty good at taking no for an answer.

We had the Jehovah's Witnesses come to our door a few times. I thought they were polite. They offered me their pamphlet and I told them i'd be happy to take it if they would take a copy of the Book of Mormon (I really would have taken their paper, too!). They haven't been back since then.

To me, the most obnoxious was after a huge storm a tree took out our roof, and the next mroning DOZENS of business folks stopped by to offer us their wonderful deals to fix our roof.

Ohhh you just brought back some bad memories. After Hurricane Ike we have every loser on the planet canvassing our neighborhood.

[IWAY]

My fave always been the one an old retired army buddy put out at the end of his looong driveway,in little bitty letters:

"If you can read this-I'VE ALREADY GOT A BEAD ON YOU!"


He swears it works...for everyone!