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Hey Summer...

Sorry I didn't get back to you before. I took the weekend off!

Perhaps it depends on the rep, but I have never hostessed nor attended a home sales party that was high pressure at all! Basically, my friends and I look at it as a good opportunity to get together. I especially love Pampered Chef because they cook and you get to share all the yummy stuff they make. I hate high pressure sales of anything and would definitely not host or attend these shows if they were like that.

The lady who did the party in question was just the cutest thing. She was a military wife and at the time she did my party she was about 8 1/2 months pregnant. She was too funny!! All the guests were middle to upper middle class ladies, all married and all with children. It is definitely marketed as a marriage enhancing thing. There were alot of happy husbands in my neighborhood that night!

Hi GatorGirl,

Thanks for your reply. That info is very interesting and entertaining! LOL...

Now I am wondering if 1) the particular company of the party I attended (I think now it was for beachwear) was just extra pushy, and 2) those companies you dealt with give any advice at all. I'm still curious about that.

I'll tell you a funny story since you were so nice to take the time to reply. A former neighbor of mine, a single divorced woman who was quite attractive but way too eager to tie the knot, once told she had actually paid quite a bit of money to join one of these single clubs where you fill out a profile, and men look at it, and you look at the men's profiles, and who knows -- maybe you go on a date and eventually marry.

But, she showed me the instructions this company gives new applicants on how to fill out their profiles -- and I still burst out laughing just remembering this. Here's what the company wrote in their directions -- and I'm not making this up.

On its profile questionaire the company wrote something like this for its instructions to new applicants --

"With respect to Question #3 -- 'What is your favorite activity?'

If you are a woman, DO NOT WRITE "Shopping" for your answer, even if your favorite activity really is shopping.

If you are a man, DO NOT WRITE "Watching sports on tv and drinking beer" even if your favorite activity is watching sports on tv and drinking beer.[...]"

ROTFLMAO...