Preparedness for when

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Too right BBB no such thing as a weed, only useful plants growing in the wrong place.

We are older, but neither stupid, senile or gullible and not likely to deal well with being patronised amd talked down to by grubby, wet nosed youngsters or slick double acts with a badge round thier necks, as many of them have found out to thier cost!!!!! We are so baddddddd, Cheers Lyn xxx.

daz378

ive had charity workers knocking on flat door, saying we dont want your money, just your bank details and 2 pound a month, not saying they are not worthy charities, not giving my details to someone knocking on the door.....going out tonight with work colleagues ... been a busy month socially/financially might fall back on my prepps this month ... to save a bit

enjoy the weekend

GreyQueen

BBB, I personally think Stealth Pauperism is the way to go. I shan't have to make much effort to work this look.

If the economy gets ever worse, there'll be more and more chancers trying stuff on with anyone they think has a bob or two and who may be a tad gullible.

I'm middle-aged, bliddy-minded and troublesome if crossed. Plus Shoebox Towers has its own particular ambience (one part skunk cannabis and two parts desperation) which tends to dissuade all but the most hardened door-to-door types.

My parents aren't particularly ancient (circa 70) but they obviously hit some kind of demographic tick box. They get cold-called several times a day, so much so that they answer the phone to me with a rather testy Yes?! which is immediately modified with a relieved Oh, it's you, love. They also get several charity donation pick-up bags per week and salesmen at the door offering all sorts.

The parents have a built-in porch with single glazed wooden windows on an otherwise uPVC d.g. house. By golly, it's like a red rag to a bull, the amount of uPVC firms who cold call. They like the single glazing, it lets the porch function as a larder which is very handy in an otherwise warm house.

My kid brother (stapping mid fortysomething) gets sent to answer the door at their's. And, sometimes I'm visiting, and some poor twerp trying to flog a religion/ conservatory/ double-glazing or a charity gets me. They get a polite but definate flea in the ear.

I did read a novel (American one, can't recall the title) when one character goes to visit the home of another character's mother, which is in a run-down neighbourhood. He remarks to himself that he thinks the other man ought to be taking better care of his elderly mother's home until he gets inside.

The inside of the house is in very good order, but the outside had been allowed to get a shabby appearance so that she wouldn't look properous and be a target.

Sooo, maybe keep the cracked concrete and weeds, BBB.

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GQ we had it all sorted out except the garage door, which we repaired. OK it looked tatty and needed TLC but the number of double glazing callers to the house whose opening gambit was I see your garage door is giving you problems Madam, it is such an off putting thing for prospective purchasers of property, we could give you a very good quote for a stylish replacement!!! So........... we painted the old door, a most becoming shage of burgundy and guess what? they don't call to offer us new ones any more. Granted they do still offer us windows, doors, porches, bathrooms, kitchens and conservatories, but at least we have the satisfaction of knowing our garage door passes muster, a small relief in a sales driven world, yes?
We live in a material world te dum te dum to dah!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

the_cake

We don't get any cold callers where we live now (too far out in the sticks!) but I do remember the occasion a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses came round when we lived in a village, and I'm afraid really enjoyed watching the recoil when my then-OH told them, with a suitable mad and evil gleam in his eye, that we were Satanists! Shouldn't laugh ...... but it did get rid of them quickly.

mardatha

Another good thing about living out here is that we never get anything like that. Once in 25 years we got Jehovahs- and that was only because the people over the road are in their church

mardatha

Snap cake LOL! the people over the road think I talk to demons because I'm a medium
If only I could get a cleaning demon to stop by... or an ironing one :rotfl:

the_cake

mardatha wrote: »

Snap cake LOL! the people over the road think I talk to demons because I'm a medium
If only I could get a cleaning demon to stop by... or an ironing one :rotfl:

Or a sweety-making one?!

mardatha

Oh god. I t would be worth going over the Dark Side for that!!

pineapple

I'm too far out to get doorsteppers. A delivery man once told me he lived in a nearby village but hadn't even realised there were any houses here.
So I was somewhat astonished when census occifers made two visits with little reminder cards (I can only think my submission must have been lost in the post ).
I think I must have been a hermit in an earlier life. I've mastered the art of retrieving the lawnmower from the upper garden without the next door but one neighbour seeing/hearing me when she is out with her rabbit and I like nothing better than to walk the dog at 1am when no one is around. I feel really cheated if I find anyone else up and about! :mad: