To be sick of junk mail and constant charity/religious reps at my door!

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Does anyone else have this happen to them on this scale? We get about 4 a week knocking on the door. Certain religious groups, and charities.

I'm totally sick of it, as I refuse to give my bank details to some random stranger and I don't want to discuss religion on my doorstep!!

Got a big sign on my door from Amazon saying no salespeople or junk mail, but they all ignore it!

AIBU to be pissed off? Any pearls of wisdom on how to get rid of them?

I never open the door even if they can see if I'm in.
My paper recycling box in by the front door and I get at least 5 leaflets from takeaways, double glazing, estate agents etc every day and they go straight into the bin.

I do wish the takeaway leaflets would stop, I never have and never will buy from any of them. Feels like such a waste of their time, money and effort - not to mention waste of paper.

If I'm at home and catch them putting leaflets through the front door, I open it and give them back to them 😂 My dp thinks I'm mad, but I'm sick to death of having endless bits of paper crap every day! We have lots of charity workers as well, and I just don't open the door anymore. It drives me barmy.

You could always have a small sign on your garden gate or door stating you wish to have no canvessers. The Charity bags and betterware are particularly annoying as they invariably return to collect. I quite enjoy polictical candidates and religious callers so i dont leave a sign.

Next time, carry a kitchen knife to the door and say, "Sorry, can't talk now. I have a goat to sacrifice, and Beelzebub hates to be kept waiting. " Then with an evil grin, "But maybe you could come back tonight..."

I answered the door expecting a delivery, but was confronted with two religious people, bibles in hand. She started by saying "I see you have a sign saying no cold callers or sellers, but we are not selling anything..."

Me: "So you're not selling religion...?"
The conversation ended quite quickly, although I hate that I can't bring myself to be rude to polite people, even if they were already rudely ignoring my wishes!

I'm not going to be a prisoner in my own home peeping behind curtains and yelling out of windows like so many MNers seem to live. But equally so, if I have made my wishes clear frm the outset, don't try and get round them with your own special "angle"!

I don't open the door to randoms anymore, it's my door, I don't have to.

DP and I have toyed with the idea of a shredder attached to the inside of the door as we get an absolute mountain of junk mail, takeaway menus, estate agent leaflets, catalogues etc. All our bills are online so we don't often get anything important in the post, we have a sign saying no junk mail, and I have confronted one of the people posting them as they were waking DD violently shoving a literal pile of things through the letterbox, made no difference still happens every day. Makes the hallway look messy and terrible for the environment.

You're not alone.
I have a flower pot that I never got round to filling last year by my door. It's stuffed full of "charity" bags. If you read the small print, very few are actual charities but merely companies who sell your donated clothes and give a small percentage to the charity they named on the bags. Total con. They make a fortune making people think they're doing a good deed.
They STILL don't take the hint. It's really very obvious.
As much as I would like to give to charity (I can't, we're not exactly flush enough to hand money away) there is no way I would ever give out my bank details to someone appearing on my doorstep. I just tell them that I will donate online directly if I choose.

We were away over Easter, there was a mountain of junk mail on our return and a Kleeneze catalogue that had a note attached stating it would be collected in two days. I put it all in the recycling bin which was collected the following day.
Last week I had someone knock and ask for the catalogue (four days after we had got back from holiday) I apologised,explained that we had been away,believed that I had missed their collection and so recycled the catalogue.
On Saturday at 8.30am they knocked again (different woman to the first one), went through the whole story again.
On Sunday at 8.00am the first woman knocked, I was livid because I'd been woken on Saturday and on Sunday so told her the catalogue had gone,I'd now explained twice and wouldn't explain again but they needed to stop knocking because I hadn't got it.
She started on about how she was charged for the catalogues and I had cost her money at that point I lost my temper told them they shouldn't be surprised if they put catalogues unsolicited through people's doors when some aren't returned. I had recycled in error but they could rest assured that if I got any further catalogues through my door they would be burned
Hopefully that is one less item to recycle from now on anyway.

The religious ones, I tell them I am a blood donor so even if I were not an atheist, my soul is already damned in their eyes. They tend to leave quite quickly then.

The religious ones do my head in.

Religion is supposed to be a personal/spiritual thing. When they knock on doors peddling it like discounted double glazing it cheapens the whole thing. Makes me doubt that any of them really take it seriously anyway.

@1nsanityscatching that happened to a friend of mine. She had loads of trouble after accidentally binning a catalogue (Betterware? Kleenex?) that she had never asked for. The woman was very abusive and started demanding money for it, calling my friend a bitch etc. She came back with someone else too.
I'm sorry but if you something through MY door that I didn't agree on it's mine now. Don't want to lose stuff you paid for? Don't give it away to folk who don't want it.

ThouShallNotPass It's outrageous tbh,I've never ordered from them and don't even look at the books but if I'm home I put them straight back out on the porch for them to collect.
I can understand it's annoying if you have to pay for the catalogues but FGS if it went to be recycled that situation isn't going to change no matter how many times you knock.
I'm hoping I am blacklisted now anyway

Answer the door naked with a sex toy in your hand. That will hopefully decrease the religious callers.

Its difficult to ignore the door if expecting a delivery, which I often am. I have stock responses:

Charity/ duster sales: sorry, I've recently lost my job.
Double glazing etc: sorry, we rent.
Religious nuts: I'm working/ sick. Please don't ever come back.

Drives me mad.

It's the Hello Fresh reps that piss me off. I've opened the door to them at least 3 times now despite notifying the company y leave me alone. Highly sick of them and they will never ever get an order from me.

JWs I can scare off in seconds - I quite enjoy tormenting them (and for the record I have formally told them to stop calling several times but they still do so are fair game as far as I'm concerned)

Drives me mad too. We have a spy hole in our front door that I'm getting a lot better at looking through before I open it! Over the weekend I thankfully managed to avoid several local election campaign era because I spotted their rosettes.

I always tell the charity people that I'm 17 even though I'm very clearly getting on for double that age as 17 year olds can't sign direct debit forms. They obviously don't believe me but can't do anything about it!

I once had someone in the post office trying to get me interested in their credit cards, I also said 'I am under 18' as I hope they can't have credit cards, he looked at my hair suspiciously and walked off, cheeky beggar. I have a full head of silver and was 38 at the time

This drives me potty. The charities are the worst! We already give to charity and I tell them so. They then just carry on with their script and keep saying ""All your neighbours have given their support. I know we can count on yours too???" As if on both counts!!
It makes me really uncomfortable.
If people are trying to sell something like double glazing my stock response is "my mums not in" 😂 I won't be able to pull that off for much longer though.
I haven't had any religious groups yet. Id actually quite enjoy that. Hilarious!

Surely if you're expecting a delivery from Royal Mail or courier you'll sort of know what they'll look like, uniform a major clue or handheld signing gadget thing. You can tell the JW's a mile off, charity usually have some kind of high vis or lanyard thing. Just don't answer TopCat I can't see the problem.

TheCat sorry