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To think I have alot more to worry about than a sodding kleanezee booklet.

111 replies

McNewPants2013 · 21/08/2013 21:39

I have a lot to do in the day, I wake up at 5am for work start at 7am till 3pm. Then it the usual housework dinner spending time with DC and DH.

I tend to take them out everyday, so normally home for 6:30ish then it bedtime routine ect.

Just had a knock on the door waking DD up all for a sodding kleanezee booklet ( she said this is the 4th time she has called)

Aibu to think you don't knock people door this time of night.

Hope DD goes back to sleep soon.

OP posts:
Wallison · 22/08/2013 00:11

I don't even have a porch - or indeed a front yard or anything. I leave the catalogues inside on the floor next to the front door and open it and put them outside it on the day they are due to be collected. If they don't collect them on that day, I just leave them there and eventually someone picks them up (maybe thieves who specialise in nicking Kleeneze brochures). I just couldn't bring myself to bin something that is part of a person's livelihood.

cloudpuff · 22/08/2013 00:12

Posted too early, if it was just one catalogue then it wouldn't be a problem, it's the amount of other junk that's needs sorting through with it, I'll hand it back were possible, or leave on the step but the last year has been very rough and we have our own problems, financial included, I don't appreciate being told off for not putting out a catalogue I didn't ask for on a certain day.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 00:12

The ones around here are all in cellophane bags, BillyGoat. Obviously we have a higher class of Kleeneze reps than you have.

IceCup · 22/08/2013 00:15

Now imagining neighbour's loo reading germs multiplying in ziplock sandwich bag greenhouse. shudders (Also, clean... easy. Pet hate: companies who spell words wrong.)

cloudpuff · 22/08/2013 00:18

I always thought it was cleaneze to rhyme with peas, thinking now if I've ever made a tit of myself by saying it wrong in public lol

Wallison · 22/08/2013 00:26

Everyone I know who has worked for them pronounces it 'clean easy'.

[points and laughs at cloudpuff]

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 00:36

I hate leaving them outside for days in case people think we're away and try to break in.

Sometimes I accidentally run them under the tap leave them out in the rain and that makes me feel a bit guilty but does seem to stop them.

The cheek of it, though - posting something through my letterbox and then making it my responsibility to return it on a specified day, WTAF?

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 00:47

And before I get flamed I have two disabled children, trying to run a business from home in the fecking school holidays and I live in a tiny house.

I like cory's suggestion of plonking something into their arms and telling them to bring it back a few days later

Wallison · 22/08/2013 00:47

I'm sure they aren't aiming it personally at you, CorrineFoxworth.

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 00:49

I'm sure they are not. Did my post suggest that? Sorry if so.

They are, however, aiming it through my personal letterbox.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 00:51

Is your house so tiny that you find it difficult to accommodate a Kleeneze catalogue?

Jesus, but some people really make a meal out of things. Like I say, I don't even have a front porch. Christ, I don't even have a front step. But I am capable of putting a catalogue outside my door.

And knowing that some poor sod has shelled out money from their own pocket and that that they are doing a shitty exhausting job for little return means that I'm not going to do anything to make their life more difficult.

StuntGirl · 22/08/2013 00:52

The cheek of it, though - posting something through my letterbox and then making it my responsibility to return it on a specified day, WTAF?

This!

When I lived at home we got a leak in our porch, which meant keeping a bucket under the leak to catch the rain water. The leak was unfortunately positioned exactly where mail posted through the letterbox would land on the floor, so shit like Kleeneeze or Avon catalogues (along with the rest of our mail) landed straight in a bucket of rainwater. Nice.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 00:53

This does rather suggest that you find it a personal affront that someone would post something through your letterbox, yes.

edwardcullensotherwoman · 22/08/2013 01:00

I don't get Kleeneze delivered anymore - the woman came and asked for it a few months ago, I told her I thought DH had put it in the recycling the night before, she looked a bit miffed and hasn't delivered one since Confused

I'm an Avon rep, but I don't knock doors. I always go back to collect on the day I say I will, and in fairness most people will leave the books out. If the book isn't out I'll check again the next day, but if it's still not out I'll assume they didn't want anything. If I don't get 2 books in a row back I make a note of the address and don't deliver any more for a while, because I don't want to be a nuisance. I also always respect 'no junk mail' signs, or ask people if they want a book if I can see them outside the house.

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 01:02

Wallison clearly you don't live in a high-crime area and yes, my house is so small with so many cupboards removed by the previous tenants that I have to think about everything that comes into it or there would be fire hazards galore and I can't risk that given my circumstances.

Currently the latest catalogue is residing on the stairs and I intend to put it out on Friday as commanded Hmm but tomorrow I am having some furniture delivered courtesy of a Family Fund for disabled children grant after they visited and saw how seriously overcrowded my house is and how there is no space at all hence needing more efficient use of space.

This has reminded me to move it lest the delivery people slip and fall.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 01:05
skyeskyeskye · 22/08/2013 01:08

My XH used to sell Kleeneze. He thought he was going to make a fortune. Instead, he lost money. The products are expensive and usually crap. He had to pay for all the catalogues. A lot if people forgot to leave them them out and were rude if he knocked and asked for it.

Then another man started doing Kleeneze in the same area and his friends got aggressive with XH. Each order involved at least two trips, often more as people were often out on delivery day.

He packed it in after realising that he was losing money on it.

However, YANBU. She shouldnt be knocking at that time of night. The catalogues are unsolicited. You didn't ask for it and when they deliver them they cannot expect to always get them back. A lot of people recycle all unwanted mail without even looking at it.

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 01:09

I must have worded my post very offensively because we are usually in agreement, Wallison and as a carer I know exactly what doing a shitty exhausting job for little return means.

I generally try not to make others people's lives more difficult and as I have said, have kept the latest one because I have moved in the last six months, but I do get fed up when people refuse to acknowledge that sometimes I don't have space in my house or my life to meet deadlines that have been imposed on me against my will.

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 01:14

"None of the Kleeneze catalogues I have had have ever spontaneously combusted either"

That's very true, but when it comes to maximising space I would rather take advantage of BOGOFs and have useful things cluttering up the hallway like, I dunno, food and shit like that.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 01:16

I'm not offended by anything you said, CorrineFoxworth; I'm just irritated by the whole tone of this thread which seems to be that getting catalogues through the door and putting them outside it is a massive imposition, when it really isn't. Also, despite lots of people pointing out that the reps lose money if you chuck the damn thing in the bin, there have been a lot of sneery comments which to my mind reads not only let's point and laugh at the poor people but also how dare those poor people impinge on my life in any way.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 01:17

Oh and btw I too have a cluttered hallway - nowhere else to put the damn bikes. It's a pita alright.

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 01:22

That's fair enough Smile

Sorry that you have as cluttered a hallway as we do. Do you know, I have heard tell of areas where bicycles can be left unstolen in locked garages? We used to have bikes and a garage Hmm so we moved, but we seem to have moved to something akin to a caravan.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 01:27

No garages here unforch, and the back yard is in no way secure. The most recent time our neighbours got burgled, they even stole a sodding piggy bank, so our bikes would be gone in no time. Other neighbours have had plants and in one case a fucking tree (in a pot, I ask you) taken.

CorrineFoxworth · 22/08/2013 01:36

I am constantly amazed by "people" where I live.

DS who is autistic spent ages on a pumpkin last Hallowe'en (and we had to go to five different supermarkets to get one) left it out for an hour and some little shits threw it over the back fence just because it was there to smash. Thank Christ we saw it before he did in the morning (and it didn't kill me having a cig in the garden at the time)

When I read about MNers who live in areas where they put a basket of sweets out in their pumpkin and all the nice neighbours take one per child I wonder if I am living on the same planet!

Anyway - I'm glad I didn't leave my catalogue out now because it is pissing down with rain and will do something positive such as leaving a note on it before it goes out on Friday.

Wallison · 22/08/2013 02:03

Aw man, that is so mean about the pumpkin. What a shitty thing to do. At least your ds didn't have to see it, but still that's nasty.

I don't answer the door after 7 pm on Hallowe'en - it's fine before then, but afterwards it's big strapping teenagers demanding money with menaces.