What Else Can I Do to Stop People Knocking on My Door?

AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 12:58
Last edited 02/12/2024 - 13:16

I've moved into the current place for a few years.
Since Day 1, I have put a sign up at the front door:
"Do not knock. Sales people and charity are not welcomed."
I also have a camera pointing at the front door.
I work at night and need some rest during the day.

Everything was fine until the 2nd half of this year,
perhaps people suddenly realize that making money is not as easy as they think,
or people have spent all the $ from gov payments during covid,
more and more people are knocking on my door,
from new car service mechanics wants me to prepaid $250,
to corrupted World Vision hunting for my donations.
They just don't read the sign.
What else can I do to stop them?
Thanks in advance for all helpful suggestions.

Home & Garden

Comments

  • boomramada on 02/12/2024 - 13:00
    +15

    Change neighbourhood, no one hardly knocks on my door :(

    • HeWhoKnows on 03/12/2024 - 15:38
      -2

      Alternatively IGNORE the door knock

      You have cameras!

      Answer when you want to.

      • ForkSnorter on 03/12/2024 - 15:45
        +6

        Alternatively, dig snake pits either side of the pathway to your front door, and fill them with hissing cobras and rattlesnakes. Then make the pathway really narrow.

    • skillet on 03/12/2024 - 22:33
      +2

      "Caution!!! Wet Paint"

  • Mechz on 02/12/2024 - 13:01

    Wear earplugs when you sleep?

  • askbargain on 02/12/2024 - 13:01
    +28

    stop answering the door?

  • CodeXD on 02/12/2024 - 13:01
    +102

    Remove your door.

    • DashCam AKA Rolts on 02/12/2024 - 13:19
      +17

      Stop them with this one easy trick.

      • lew380 on 03/12/2024 - 10:06
        +8

        Salesmen hate this one simple trick

    • Widget on 02/12/2024 - 22:37
      +2

      Can't knock on the door if there's no door. (insert that meme here)

      • Chandler on 03/12/2024 - 13:57
        +1

        (insert that meme here)

        taps head

  • Hybroid on 02/12/2024 - 13:02
    +5

    Either install a video doorbell and mute it when sleeping, or a clearer sign:

    https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0soAAOSwcjBctr5G/s-l1200.jpg

    https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.4818008674.4807/bg,f8f8f8-fl…

    • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 13:03

      already done both.
      and the sign is stick next to my doorbell…

      • boomramada on 02/12/2024 - 13:04
        +2

        Disable the doorbell when sleeping?

        • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 13:05
          +3

          they just knocked on the door and wall instead, when they found the bell is not working…

          • apsilon on 02/12/2024 - 13:28
            +21

            @AsukaST: Get a doorbell where you can record a message instead of having it chime. "F off, I'm a night shift worker and am sleeping. Read the sign you inconsiderate See you in the NT" might work.

          • Sammy2000 on 02/12/2024 - 14:08
            +1

            @AsukaST: I have them knock at the door and yell out. They don't even try the door bell, why? Do they not realise that my video door bell is already recording them?

            • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 15:32
              +3

              @Sammy2000: they are probably working holiday visa holders and just don't care.

              • Sammy2000 on 02/12/2024 - 16:01
                +5

                @AsukaST: I know they only get paid if they make a sale so that is why they are so desperate.
                Charity workers are the worst. Harder to avoid in the shopping centres and so manipulative. "Do you care about the children staving?!"

                • AdosHouse on 02/12/2024 - 16:52
                  +10

                  @Sammy2000: "If I did I probably wouldn't have taken their food in the first place". You just need to one up them.

                • SolitaryMan on 04/12/2024 - 09:24

                  @Sammy2000: “Yes, which is why I donate directly to a charity since I know that 100% of my money for the first year goes to you otherwise, and you clearly don’t care about starving children! BABY MURDERER!”

          • Antikythera on 02/12/2024 - 17:57
            +6

            @AsukaST: get a really quiet doorbell but place the speaker just inside the front door.
            so they ring it, hear it faintly and assume its loud, but way inside the home.

            they dont knock. you cant hear the doorbell while sleeping.

            • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 18:11
              +2

              @Antikythera: Many of them just knock on the door / wall / windows despite there is a doorbell, and my sign is right next to the doorbell.
              Some postie also like to bang my windows before reaching my front door just to save him 2 seconds.
              Really hate that because the sudden bang on glass is scary.

              On the other hand, Amazon, Doordash, Uber, Startruck and DHL do have some common sense to ring the bell.

              • ColtNoir on 03/12/2024 - 09:07
                +6

                @AsukaST: Open the door and try to sell them something.

                • CocaKoala on 03/12/2024 - 10:34
                  +2

                  @ColtNoir: Welcome to my humble abode and I would like to talk about a wonderful opportunity! This will only take 30 minutes but after that I'll be talking about Jesus, seed money and uprooting your karma.

              • Nickels n Dimes on 03/12/2024 - 19:23

                @AsukaST: Cover the entire door in razor-sharp spikes coated in a fast-acting sedative with thick bubble wrap, leaving only the muted doorbell button accessible.

              • johnno07 on 04/12/2024 - 09:03
                -1

                @AsukaST:

                sudden bang on glass is scary

                Pls

  • djones145 on 02/12/2024 - 13:09
    +15

    u need a new sign
    atheist, crossfit and vegan lives here

    no one will knock
    RUN FOR THE HILL PEOPLE

  • OMGJL on 02/12/2024 - 13:10
    +2

    print another sign, saying you won't get sale by knocking, instead you'll get a lack of sleep maniac chase you with a chainsaw.

  • MS Paint on 02/12/2024 - 13:11
    +17

    Do not knocked

    I think I found the problem. You are using past tense. This will confuse people at your door who are either in present or future tense.

    • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 13:16

      lol just a typo, edited.

    • onetwothreefour on 02/12/2024 - 13:42
      +13

      Knocking on door makes OP tense, cheers.

  • Subere on 02/12/2024 - 13:13
    +2

    Install a gate.
    Or caltrops.

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 02/12/2024 - 13:19
      +1

      Or both

      • DashCam AKA Rolts on 02/12/2024 - 13:21
        +11

        Drawbridge.

        • Jimothy Wongingtons on 02/12/2024 - 13:28
          +11

          Might as well consider the drawbridge and moat bundle, unless you live in the flood prone areas in brisbane.

          • Subere on 02/12/2024 - 15:22
            +4

            @Jimothy Wongingtons: Archers optional

            • Jimothy Wongingtons on 02/12/2024 - 15:54
              +5

              @Subere: yeah bro cost of living pressures and all that

              gotta splash out for the hot oil on the battlements upgrade though

              im also not 100% sure the spiral staircase for defending from invading troops getting up to the throne room will blow out the 2025 budget though…

  • Xyzzy on 02/12/2024 - 13:13

    Maybe a sign that explains why they shouldn't know. e.g. "Please do not knock or ring, shift-work is sleeping".

    • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 13:15
      +18

      I feel worry that may attract burglary…

      • Xyzzy on 02/12/2024 - 13:22
        +11

        "Please do not knock or ring, shift-worker is sleeping, but his Dobermans are not".

        • Nickels n Dimes on 03/12/2024 - 19:25
          +1

          for some people, chihuahuas are more scary than a doberman.

      • ColtNoir on 03/12/2024 - 09:09
        -1

        People who will rob you, would already know you’re a shift worker.

      • us3rnam3tak3n on 03/12/2024 - 11:39

        Shift workers live with non shift workers. It doesn't necessarily mean that the house is vacant at any given time.

    • Jules_d1 on 03/12/2024 - 14:39
      +1

      "Baby sleeping"

  • 7ekn00 on 02/12/2024 - 13:13
    +6

    Get a few rottweilers for the front yard …

  • ihfree on 02/12/2024 - 13:21
    +9

    Install a real fake door

    • KSMLJ on 03/12/2024 - 11:23
      +2

      Why not a fake real door?

  • iguana on 02/12/2024 - 13:22
    +17

    Be verbally abusive to the people who knock on your door. Ask them if they can read English and if they can't tell them to F off.

    • dbmitch on 03/12/2024 - 22:14
      +1

      Always is stunned when they say the owner is rude for telling them to go away.

      Bruh.

  • ozwog05 on 02/12/2024 - 13:26
    +1

    Put up a sign that the door is voice activated.

  • djkelly69 on 02/12/2024 - 13:26
    +16

    Put up a sign that says there is a $150 callout fee payable by any sales people or charities that ring the doorbell, and that ringing the doorbell will be a deemed acceptance of these conditions. Then don't open the door unless they pay the fee.

  • Trying2SaveABuck on 02/12/2024 - 13:42
    -2

    I personally wouldnt answer the Door

    you got a camera use it otherwise get a camera with a microphone and say 'Hello? what do you want?' if they are sales or charity say thank but im not interested and get on with you day

  • EightImmortals on 02/12/2024 - 13:52
    +2

    You are assuming they can read English.

  • bobbified on 02/12/2024 - 13:55

    Seems like they need to learn the hard way. Add little spikes on your door. Or have knock-activated jet of water….lol

  • Sye on 02/12/2024 - 13:59
    -3

    Get a doorbell that is made in Israel. Make sure when you install it you put the Front Towards Enemy pointing outwards.

    • ihfree on 02/12/2024 - 14:45
      +3

      Side effects may include:

      • Paranoia
      • Need to disassemble electronics
      • Sleeping in the closet
      • Sye on 02/12/2024 - 14:46

        And loss of vision.

        • ihfree on 02/12/2024 - 14:51

          Just talking about installation.

          As always, read the warning label.

  • plmko on 02/12/2024 - 14:06
    +14

    Just put your roller rubbish bin in the front. No one wants to touch garbage so no one will move it.

  • Boioioioi on 02/12/2024 - 14:11
    +3

    Fence off front yard and get a locked gate. Door knockers turn up, get confused and leave at my place. Sucks though man, it is tough when you cannot get good sleep

  • coffeeinmyveins on 02/12/2024 - 14:15
    -7

    or people have spent all the $ from gov payments during covid,

    What an odd take

    I bet you're just full of non *-ist ideas

  • Archi on 02/12/2024 - 14:25
    +4

    put up a sign that says, "come back tomorrow, i'll be happy to answer the door"

  • Caped Baldy on 02/12/2024 - 14:26
    +7

    Door bell connected to an airhorn that faces back towards them.

    • LuckyLuke on 03/12/2024 - 17:03

      Of all the crazy ideas here, I love the idea of someone pressing the doorbell and having the bejesus scared out of them by an air horn.

      Only problem is that you may not get a lot of sleep…

      • LuckyLuke on 03/12/2024 - 17:08

        At risk of overthinking this, and vibing off some of the earlier comments, nothing scares people more than legal terms and conditions.

        You could have a sign next to the doorbell that says, 'pressing the doorbell' is deemed acceptance of the attached terms and conditions. Press at your own risk.

      • dbmitch on 03/12/2024 - 22:15
        +1

        Kids will spread the word of your amazing air horn doorbell and that's when you realise you f'ed up

  • DoctorCalculon on 02/12/2024 - 14:36
    +1

    Install a front fence.

  • netjock on 02/12/2024 - 14:38
    +1

    Soft foam like studio insulation on your door and frames. They can knock but you won't hear it.

  • ihbh on 02/12/2024 - 14:48
    +4

    Smear dogsh*t on your door.

  • joka on 02/12/2024 - 14:49

    The only way is to have a door made of pillows.

  • ThithLord on 02/12/2024 - 14:49
    +4

    You say you've got a video doorbell.

    Provide a compilation clip of these "people". I just simply do not believe there are that many people knocking on your door

  • pharkurnell on 02/12/2024 - 14:51
    +4

    Trap door that drops into a croc infested water tank that activates when they press the doorbell… Adams Family style.

    • Sammy2000 on 02/12/2024 - 16:03

      This is why they don't press the bell!

  • pegaxs on 02/12/2024 - 15:22
    +7

    I dont know about your state, but if you have a sign up that says "Do no knock", it is actually illegal (with severe fines for corps and individuals) for some organizations to knock. It doesn't stop all of them, as it only stops "commercial sales" individuals. It will not stop God botherers or the charity scumbags who are "not selling anything, just giving out information" and then ask you for a donation anyway. It wont stop police or political canvassers either.

    I have a sign on my door that says "DO NOT KNOCK" in big, red letters and cites the legislation and that anyone who is not authorised to knock will be "removed by reasonable force" as they are now breaking trespass laws. I single out ALL unsolicited door knockers by including in the do not knock to cover charity, religious and political canvassers and tell them they must leave immediately.

    Or you could put up a sign I used to have "Shift worker sleeping. If you think you are good enough to pedal your wares to a cranky, hibernating bear without being eaten, I DARE you to knock on my door." and it had a cartoon of a grizzly bear eating a salesman.

    • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 15:30
      +2

      if you have a sign up that says "Do no knock", it is actually illegal for some organizations to knock.

      https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/consumers-and-businesses/pro…
      True. I am not sure if its nationwide but I am sure VIC, NSW and NT do have this law in place.
      But, people just don't read, and the sign doesn't stop charity.

      put up a sign I used to have "Shift worker sleeping

      I won't do so as I feel worry that may attract burglary.

      • pegaxs on 02/12/2024 - 15:48
        +1

        But knocking to see if you are at home or not is not attracting burglary?

        If they knock and you dont answer, this is also "attracting burglary".

        People dont go around and go to the trouble of work for a charity/church/vacuum/bottled water sales company just to check houses for possibly break and enter targets later that night. Thieves also dont go around looking at front doors of houses looking for "shift worker alseep" signs. If your house is going to get knocked over, it is going to get knocked regardless if you have a "shift worker asleep" sign.

        My street has been hit 4 times in the last 5 months and the little (fropanity) that do this DGAF. They roll up in groups of 5~10 with their hoodies, masks and gloves and DGAF if you are home. If they get in, they get in, if you are at home, they will just bail you up with a knife or some other weapon while the others rummage your home. (InB4: "i wOuLd KiLL ThEm aLL!1!!" No you wouldnt, champ. They are wide awake, pumped on meth and 5~10 deep and you are half asleep…)

        You know what doesn't keep them out… signs or no signs on front doors.

  • Click_It on 02/12/2024 - 15:40
    +18

    A friend of mine years ago had a religious group constantly door-knocking so one day he and 2 friends all answered the door naked. They never returned.

    • dbmitch on 03/12/2024 - 22:16
      +3

      "There is no god in that house."

  • Neoika on 02/12/2024 - 15:46
    +21

    This definitely works.

    • pegaxs on 02/12/2024 - 15:49

      Oh! nice, I like it… And some finger print dust rubbed around the door handle…

    • Sye on 02/12/2024 - 15:55
      +3

      And a chalk outline of a body

  • Cluster on 02/12/2024 - 15:50
    +2

    New sign:

    "No sales people, charities, or religious proselytizers"

    "I will always say no. No exceptions. You are wasting your time."

    • Chandler on 03/12/2024 - 14:09
      +1

      Challenge accepted.

  • ripesashimi on 02/12/2024 - 16:03
    +7

    I feel so lucky living in poor suburbs. Nobody knocks on the doors in my neighborhood except cops.

  • Mumbles on 02/12/2024 - 16:08
    +1

    You could try adding a security door or a lockable fly screen door on the outside. It doesn't stop all sales people but it does turn off some sales people. A lot of metal screen doors create a loud noise on the outside of the house so it gets unpleasant for the sales person as they knock louder (even if they are using keys or rings) especially if they have to do it all day long. A secondary effect is that their loud noise making will alert the surrounding neighbours to listen in on the conversation so it better prepares your neighbours for their defence against the door-to-door scammers sales tactics. So a security door usually deters the quieter and shy sales people.

    I'd just cheer myself up by watching lots of Dexter and fantasize.

    • AsukaST on 02/12/2024 - 16:13
      +1

      Thanks. I do have a metal security door.
      Yeah it's really loud and that's why I hate them knocking on it.
      Sometimes they knock on the wall or my windows instead.
      And I do have a doorbell.

      From my camera I can see 20% of people are turned away after reading the sign.
      80% of them just don't fuxking care.

      quieter and shy sales people.

      You definitely don't want to hire them as your sales people. lol

  • KaTst3R on 02/12/2024 - 16:15
    +12

    "Do not knok, canot speak England"

    • lordra on 02/12/2024 - 16:21

      No Knockers,
      No Anglise

      • Nugs on 02/12/2024 - 19:07
        +3

        "No Knockers"
        I like knockers
        .

        • lordra on 02/12/2024 - 22:53

          Puppies and Knockers allowed.

      • Thrift on 03/12/2024 - 09:25
        +1

        Obligatory "What knockers!"

    • Nickels n Dimes on 03/12/2024 - 19:31
      +2

      Might work better if you wrote it in different languages:
      لا تقم بالطرق، لا يمكنني التحدث بالإنجليزية.
      請勿敲門，無法說英語。
      សូមកុំប្រើប្រាស់បន្ទាន់ទេ។ ខ្ញុំមិនអាចនិយាយភាសាអង់គ្លេសបានទេ។
      ਦਰਵਾਜ਼ਾ ਨਾ ਖੋਵੋ, ਮੈਂ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਬੋਲਦਾ।
      Usigonge, siwezi kusema Kiingereza.

  • Vash1984 on 02/12/2024 - 16:30
    +1

    Cover the door with foam

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