Block Solicitors’ Phone Calls

“I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren’t able to call people at home during dinner hour.”

—ANONYMOUS

And he is drawn in diverging directions [his interests are divided and he is distracted from his devotion to God].

—1 Corinthians 7:34

Do you get tired of answering the phone and talking to a computer that is trying to take a survey? How about an insurance salesman during dinner, or a credit card company trying to give you yet another credit card you don’t need and should not want?

The good news is you can have all those calls blocked. You don’t have to receive calls from solicitors. We had all of those calls blocked for years and then moved to a new house. We started getting calls all throughout the evening from insurance companies, loan companies, satellite companies—if they were selling something, they were calling us. At first, I could not figure out what was going on, and then I realized we had changed phone numbers and forgot to have the solicitor calls blocked.

One of the easiest ways to block unwanted telemarketers is to register your name and phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry (www.donotcall.gov). You can register as many phone numbers as you like, so don’t forget to include your cell phones and office phones in addition to your home.

I am not against people who work as solicitors. I know they have to make a living like everyone else, but my life is too full already to take their calls. When I finally sit down in the evening, I don’t want to jump up three or four times to talk to a computer or someone trying to sell me something I don’t want. This might be one way you can increase your peace and save some time (as well as your sanity).