Phone as well as the door has not stopped all day again today.

Do you really want to do housework? I think you have an excellent idea. Turn the phone off. That is what I do. I figure if people really want to contact me they will leave a message and a way of getting back to them if you don't already know. The rest can go fly a kite. I check the phone occasionally and if I am taking a break I call people back. Usually people that know me very well know when it is convenient for me to take calls. And if people are good friends or the least bit respectful and considerate as well they will wait and call when it is convenient. I make it an ongoing thing that I am available after a certain time and until a certain time.

There are days when it seems every time you get settled in to do something you get interrupted, or you remember "oh I meant to do this" and have to get up and get going on something else! Oh and then the times when you go to use the bathroom and the doorbell rings or the phone rings. With the phone, I may just answer it if It's the hubs, but call back if it's someone else!

There are days like that, but I will not turn it off. I don't mainly because I am afraid of someone not being able to contact me in an emergency. There are days my phone does not ring and then, some days it just rings all day. Good luck in getting a little peace and quiet.

You was popular yesterday huh?

At least you know you're popular. If you turn your phone off, you might miss that call you're waiting for. Maybe you should call them?

I sometimes turn the ringer off on the telephone so that I can get things done. My brother works at night and cannot sleep for the phone ringing. I can still see who has called by lookiing at the caller id log on the telephone. Sometimes I hate answering the telephone, too. Happy Mylotting

I can handle the phone ringing, but I don't like people coming to the door without calling first, and if I don't answer the phone, it obviously means that I am not available. so if I don't answer the phone, but they still come to the door, I find it incredibly rude. Even if I am at home, if i am not answering the phone, then I am N O T available, and that's all there is to it. If I called someone and they did not answer, there is no way I would go to their house and look for them unless I thought they were in some kind of danger, but the people I ignore on the phone I never ignore long enough for them to worry, I just tell them i was unavailable.

but there are chances to miss some important calls in that way..if u switch off your phone...maybe you miss some important msg or something u have been waiting for many days....we wish many times that the life should be without cell phones ..but it would be more difficult i think...

I know the feeling well. For years I could get by with not answering the phone, but lately I am involved in some projects with people who do not have email, so if they call and I don't answer they are likely to call all their friends to ask if I am OK. Then they might all come over to check on me. Twice this week people rang my doorbell to tell me I forgot to pick up my newspaper. Uh, no, I didn't forget, I was still asleep. I love 'em but what part of I don't do mornings don't they understand? PS: Thanx 4 the BR.

hi jugsjugs oh my well I have had days like that and this is what I usually got, the register wanting to sell me the paper, a gruff voice insisting renee is here even as I told him he had the wrong number, he yelled get renee on the phone now.that one I slammed the receiver on. then i got another phone call asking for Mrs. MOrrison. on a hunch I asked her if this Mrs. Morrison by any chance was named Renee. and she sounded amazed, why yes how did you know. I told her about the gruff sounding guy who wanted renee and how mean he sounded. I found out Renee was his ex wife and no love was lost , and then she asked again and I told her no, that was an old number that i just got when I got my phone put in. renee does not live here. She asked was I in a private home, I chuckled,with ninety people. she wanted to know what I meant and I said I am in room 260 with a roommate. this id Gold Crest retirement center.

You may have to do this jugjugs. I know that if I am constantly being disturbed by either one of these, I will take action. The phone will be off of the hook, or I would never answer it. And as for the door being opened, I will pretend that I am not home. My house will be so quiet that you will think that no one is at my home.

Fortunately, I have caller ID so I can tell when to answer & when not to. Back before Caller ID, I'd either turned the ringer off at the phone or unplug the phone from the wall so I couldn't hear it ring. I'd leave the answering machine on & turned down so anybody calling could leave a message if it was important. Then I'd check the messages when I had the time. I didn't answer the door either. I had a box mounted next to the door with a pen & a notepad so anybody important could leave a message. Worked very effectively!!!

I know the feeling. I keep getting calls from creditors who want money. I keep on explaining to them that we do not have the money, but we are willing to make payment arrangements. Most of them will not work with us. Our power company is charging us a lot of money for our bills and are charging us the same rates as the people who lived here before us. I keep the thermastat down to zero degrees all day long and at night I keep it at 40 degrees. No matter what my husband and I do to save money on our power bill we keep on getting charged more. I would not turn the phone off until you get your important call. We have call waitig and I screen all phone calls.