Hide Your Checkbooks – The Direct Marketing Sales Army is Growing

October 31, 2008 by  
Filed under Money and Behavior, Spending

I came a across a news article yesterday that was both interesting and disturbing.  It seems that the declining economy has created more interest among the unemployed and the underemployed in personal direct marketing.  As used in this context, “direct marketing” means that even more scary people are gearing up to knock on your door so that you can be annoyed while they try to sell you some overpriced junk that you don’t need.   Read more