Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Endless stream of Jehovah's Witnesses to my door.....

This is not really very important but I just wondered - does anyone else get a phenomenal number of Jehovah's Witnesses to their door on the Ladder? I have no gripe with JW but yesterday I had six people call at my door and the day before I had four. On average, I have about 12 JW callers a week (and sometimes other evangelical visitors too) knocking on my door.

I keep asking these JW - very politely - to tell their churches not to call on me as I'm not interested. I have to answer the door as I'm waiting for stuff to be delivered for work but I find it a bit annoying and scary when strangers call all the time (especially after reading all the stuff on here about scams with people coming to your door). Sometimes when I'm on the phone for work, they keep knocking until I go to the door thinking it's an emergency.

Anyway, just wondered if everyone on the Ladder comes across the same issue? Has anyone had any success getting evangelical converters to stop calling?

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Permalink Reply by BillTL on January 26, 2011 at 12:48

Mormons believe in posthumous conversion as well, don't they? If you join you can sign up all your ancestors. Must make a right pig's ear of the seating arrangements up above.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on January 21, 2011 at 8:40

That is brilliant!

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Permalink Reply by Kit on January 21, 2011 at 10:02

Brilliant! Off to find robes and an upside-down crucifix on Amazon. It's not just godbotherers, sadly. We get two or more unwanted house calls every week, mostly charity muggers and people with clipboards banging on about telephone/gas supplies. Bet they'd enjoy a Black Mass.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on January 21, 2011 at 10:23

I just dont answer the door but I'm like that.
I think there has been an increase because the end of the world is coming soon.... There have been lots of 'signs' such as the Condem government coming to power, Posh Becks having a baby girl and the like so they are duty bound to save as many of us as possible.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on January 21, 2011 at 11:03

It's been a while since I last had a JW Watchtower magazine (unsolicited, but at least paid for by their own supporters).

More regularly I am getting unsolicited mags from UKCG. Their latest effort is FiA:Faith in Action magazine. This magazine is notable for its similarity to Haringey People: 32 pages in full colour and even the layout is similar.

Are UKCG copying Haringey People or is is HP copying the style of 'Faith in Action'?

I don't want any of these magazines, but once again, HP stands out amongst the unsolicited proselytizing mags as being the only one that we pay for (c. £200,000 p.a.).

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Permalink Reply by Tina on January 21, 2011 at 11:30

We don't get as many as that, just from time to time; I'm usually quite short with them - hopefully this discourages them. However, I was quite surprised when we were visited by Jehovah's witnesses at a house in France which was in the middle of nowhere!