To throw the Avon catalogue...

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I didn't even think Avon still did catalogues but I've just got home to find one through my door and a note saying they'll collect next week.

Person A says just throw it away, it's unsolicited mail.

Person B says just throw it out on the doorstep and let it sit there for a week.

Person C says keep it in and remember to put it out on the day it says it'll be collected.

Which team are you?

‘Meltdown’ is a bit of hyperbole. It’s an inconsequential blether on a dreary Tuesday afternoon. No need to get excited about it.

OP asked a question, something to pass the time when we don’t have the headspace to get into ‘how do we fix the Midlle East’ sorts of threads. A chat, y’know. Most people seem to be saying B, some find the volume of crap shoved through our doors irritating, others are expressing ‘meh’. Keep your hair on (Avon might have something to help you with that).

I’d leave it on the day with a note you don’t want another.

For years we had Betterware on and off. The last guy posted it though my door when we were away for 2 weeks. He then left numerous threatening letters about withholding his property.
He actually came round shortly after we came back and I gave him a mouthful about the face we were out of the country and we’d never asked for it, the notes he left were very rude. Told him if he posted again it was going in the bin.

Yeah but you can get it off of Amazon without people posting shite through your letterbox.

I'd probably be person D, if there can be an extra option!

Person D - take in indoors, peruse it over the next few days and then put it out for collection, enclosing an order for a couple of things from it.

Lease put it out next week and put a note saying please don't leave again if you aren't interested but personally I like Avon products

I did Avon a long time ago when my partner was being really financially abusive. It was a lifeline when I couldn’t even afford shoes or sanitary pads. It’s making me a bit sad thinking of someone in a similar position. The daughter who I pushed in her pram round our council estate delivering catalogues is now in secondary school and donates her pocket money to a food bank. Life isn’t easy for a lot of people, especially at this time of year.

I am kind of surprised they are still going. When I was a kid, in the 60s and 70s, my Mum would regularly buy some presents from Avon. Anyone else remember soap on a rope?

I fondly remember Pretty Peach, and those lovely cute bottles.

Place it in your recycle bin, if some one puts something through my door then it becomes my property. I don't care if they paid for it, they gave it away when they littered my letter box.

Bloody hate avon, seems every few months there is a different person shoving them thought my letter box and no why should I make my house look scruffy from the outside leaving plastic bags and catalogues outside.

Pretty Peach! My first ever perfume!

I like a browse through the book. Have you looked through the book? The Anew skin care range is really good and often on offer.

Or put a note saying "no thanks" and leave out side, or they will knock on and ask for it and come back another day if your not in as they are trying to make some money.

^This happened to me with Betterware rep, exactly the same.

Who has meltdowns over an A5 booklet?

What are you talking about?

Also, massive generalisation there about Gen Z and Millennials.

I would probably just leave it on the doorstep - I'd end up forgetting to put it out on the right day.

I used to like a look through the Avon catalogue and to buy the odd thing - various colleagues have 'done' Avon over the years - but not since 2020.

And Lily Of The Valley!

I also remember 'Soap on a rope.' I don't think that was exclusive to Avon though. I actually saw a Soap on a rope in B & M several years ago (or was it Home Bargains... maybe both!) Don't know if they still do it.

There's no meltdown. Just ambiguous etiquette about what you are meant to do with it in the internet age.

The fact that you've framed the benign question with such hyperbole about the generations suggests that you are leading with a chip on your shoulder. I'm gen x anyway, and I left my booklet - complete with plastic covering - on the doorstep for the week. No big deal.

Did you report her for stealing £50 from you? I hope so!!

So sorry,I should have added that payment was due when I got the goods
I have no idea if that's normal for Avon but that's what she said to do

I have deja vue I swear I read an identical thread to this a few years back.

I'm terrible with mail, we enter through the back/side door (no letter box and where most packages come as its the only area with parking) not the front and who even gets letters any more in the digital age?

All the junk piles up for like 2-3 months then all goes in the bin in a big purge (half of its not even for me its for previous occupants or random unaddressed flyers, I have lived here 13 years).

Also I'm quite allergic to Avon bubble bath, no idea why, no other body wash, soap, shampoo, bubble bath etc... has ever caused and issue but Avon make my skin feel like its been set on fire.

So many trips to the doctors with red burns/irritation trying to figure out the cause as a kid. We stopped the bubble bath and washing powder and it stopped, reintroduced washing powder with no issues and then reintroduced Avon and burning skin instantly again.

So not in a rush to try it again.

Well there's no need to be rude to the person just leave it out with a note saying no thanks

I just leave it on the doorstep.

Its the charity collection bin bags for me, we get a shocking amount of them they very quickly add up. I also take stuff in person to my chosen charity shop on the school run (its across the road and they have friendly workers, a great cause and reasonable pricing).

I started using them to hold the junk mail in the great purge but I only need one for that and we get like 3-5 a week (all different charities). Really we should stop buying bin bags and start using them but they're flimsy too. I hate throwing them out though but what am I meant to do with them (one of the charities that posts every week I don't even morally agree with).

If that’s true the Avon sale rep model is totally defunct. People don’t want randoms knocking on their doors, wittering about lost brochures (they didn’t ask for).

Avon make up is fabulous- give it a try?