No Adult Solicitors

So as you can see, there's still snow on... Well... Everything. But soon (hopefully anyway) the snow will melt, and spring will finally come a-knockin. Unfortunately, with spring a-knockin comes others a-knockin too.

We live in the country, but we live in an area that's not too far from a small town, and in an area that has a very small cluster of houses. We get lots of kids selling stuff for school, groups selling on behalf of sports leagues, various clubs and their fundraisers, all of which I love. It is one of the joys I have in this little community, is that the kids still feel safe going door-to-door.

Unfortunately, we average at least 2-3 other solicitors a week too. They're not as welcome as our littlest neighbors are. They’re selling something, or they’ve come to speak to me about a cause or a political candidate, and we get a lot… I mean A LOT of religious solicitors. I can’t help but feel that I’m really wasting their time when they come down our drive, since almost universally we’re not interested in what they’ve got for us.

A few weeks back, Monica on Homespun Heart addressed the importance of protecting family time during the day, and she had a really great idea about putting up a notice on the door that expresses how during certain hours, the family is enjoying personal quiet time. I think this is an awesome idea, and I want to implement it in our household. Even though we don’t have kids (yet!!), Mr. Stepford and I may be seeing the daylight hours we have together dwindle drastically. I want to take steps to protect our time together while it’s still here to protect. However, I want to discourage the adults coming with things to sell, not the little ones and their door-to-door visits.

So the question becomes how to word a sign that expresses our desire to keep grown-ups with something to sell at bay, while still expressing a sense of community by encouraging the neighborhood kids to keep coming by? I was thinking something that specifically mentioned “adult solicitors,” something along the lines of “Please no adult-solicitors,” but Mr. Stepford says that the sign reads as if we're trying to discourage prostitutes… Which of course we don’t want around the house either, but I’m not going for a sign that could be confused as a XXX statement. I want something that folks who are outside of our community will understand as me asking them to not waste their precious time pitching something that we're not interested in.

Does anybody have any suggestions how to delicately word a sign?