Not welcome?!

Comments, please? What to do?

We live on a solicited street. We seem to get paper ads or fliers on our door at least twice a week. We also get people who sell things door to door. Maybe everyone does and I'm just noticing it more now that I'm home full time.

Soooo, there is one bug company, Bulwark, that services one of my neighbors. PLEASE THINK OF YOUR NEIGHBORS before using them. Anyway, when they come to service our neighbor they always send an additional rep to go to the doors around them and try to sell the service. Here are some of my favorite sales lines:

Them: "When we are done killing the bugs down your street they'll be looking for a new home. We want to protect you from being the next home."
Me: If you are killing them, why will they be coming down the street to my home?

Them: "Your neighbors have problems with ants, flies, and spiders. Since you live in the same eco system, we're confident we can help you too."
Me: I wonder if my neighbors appreciate you telling me about their pest problems. I would never hire someone who goes telling others about my problems.

Them: "A few months ago we were treating your neighbors back yard for spiders and now we're helping with their earwig and gnat problem. Our month to month service adjusts as you go."
Me: Have you seen Charlotte's Web? In that one I learned that spiders eat earwigs and gnats and other bugs by catching them in their webs. Rather than paying your monthly member fee to work it's way up the food chain, I'll leave my back yard as it is thank you.

Ok...off the tangent. Today my lovely Bulwark associate came again. It's only been 2 weeks since the last visit. Sadly some other neighbor got sucked in but on a different monthly schedule which means that now I'll see these jokers twice a month. To top that off I was up in our closet doing belated spring cleaning while Cupcake was napping. Our closet is the furthest possible walking distance in the entire house to the front door.

Door bell rings. I decide rather than picking my pregnant self off the floor and un-burying the clothes from my lap, I'll risk missing a friend stopping by. Then a very loud and persistent knock follows. I start to get up....a little annoyed. I really don't want Cupcake to wake up. I get around to the top of the stairs and another knock comes. Really? Who raises these people? In my family we knocked or rang once MAYBE twice if it was someone we knew and thought they were home. I finally get to the front door and open it to see my bug friend. Before I even get the most recent horrible line I assure her I am not interested. Because she wasn't taking my no for an answer and started to give me the line again, I interrupted her (rude, I know) and told her that on top of that one ring was plenty at our home and if I didn't answer my door she needed to keep moving. I then closed the door in her face. Probably not my kindest moment. I'm not denying that. A few hours later she came back again and wanted to see if it was a better time to talk about "protecting my home from pests." Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Here's where I need you! What do I do?

- I do not want an tacky sign on my door that says NO SOLICITING. Even though I wish that were the case I think those signs are tacky. No offense if you have one. I just can't do it.
- I have made sure that none of our doormats say WELCOME. I have one neighbor who has no problem closing the door in people's face without even saying hello but said neighbor also has a WELCOME mat. Seems strange. But for records sake....you, my friends, are WELCOME.
- We are considering dis-engaging our doorbell. Won't help with persistent knocking but it would at least be a little better than loud dinging. Will we miss friends too?!

What do you do? How can I get the annoying sales people and Times New Roman or Comic Sans font printed ads to quit littering my door? The only pest problem I have is the pest people(and a few other businesses).