did the avon lady come to your house as a small child?

I'm just saying that perhaps you could be more selective.

She still comes to my house

As a child I lived in a trailer park. of COURSE the avon lady visited. A different avon lady visited my Nana when I was around 25 and I would occasionally buy something so she would swing by my place. She was the one who told me my Nana had died, otherwise I would have never known.

R3, You can't leave us hanging there like that. Why the disconnect with your Nana.

Why does the Avon Lady walk so slowly?

Her lipstick.

I loved it when the Avon lady would drop by. I really enjoyed looking at the children’s bath section in the tiny catalog, with the silly soaps, whimsical bubble bath bottles, and bathtub stickers.

We had the Avon lady AND the Schwan man.

“My girlfriend found lipstick in my jacket pocket. I told her straight up I was cheating.

There's no way that I was going to confess that I sell Avon.”

Ours was a single mother who lived in her parents' basement with her daughter. Lots of whispering about the paternity of her child, mostly surrounding the abrupt departure of the family where she had been their regular babysitter.

Avon was scandalous

She wouldn't have gotten past security at our house.

No, the Avon Lady was all grown up.

Avon lady, Mary Kay lady and Tupperware parties at my house when I was growing up. Was it Mary Kay or Avon with the pink car?

Mary Kay has pink cars. Avon ladies rode the bus.

right, they all seemed down and dirty

r4, my aunt still lived with my Nana and my mother would also visit them. I ran into my mother once and that was sufficient. My Nana understood.

I don't recall Avon but we did have the Fuller Brush Man, the Milk Man, the Charlie's Chips Man, the Yard Man, the Mail Man, the Diaper Man and the Tupperware Lady. .My mother was not bored and was flexible. :)

My mom was a bad cook and lazy AF (may she RIP), so the Schwann Man was a regular fixture at our house.

My sister loved the Here's My Heart perfume

We had an Avon lady through church. I remember meeting in the church hall after morning service, where people would often gather for coffee & cookies after, and she would hand out the books and have little samples of those tiny lipsticks and perfume. I remember those Christmas or special decanters of Avon perfume that were holiday editions and the perfume solids that were a locket or would go in your purse, the skin softener jars, and those little talc canisters. I remember getting the bubble bath, too.

Skin-So-Soft was great to keep away the mosquitoes.

I loved Avon as a kid and thought it was so elegant.

Unfortunately, we were poor as fuck, and other than getting free catalogs, we never had a visit or bought any of it

Now you can buy it on eBay for next to nothing, R22!

My best friend’s mother was our local Avon Lady. She was one of the kindest, sweetest people I ever knew.

We had an Avon lady who had a Filipino accent. She was a neighbor down the street from my grandmother, and she’d visit when all my aunts were visiting. She was pushing this perfume called Roses, Roses, except she pronounce it “RRRosesss, rrrosesss.” My siblings, cousins and I couldn’t stop laughing (we’re Filipino, too, but never learned the the language). So, after that, we all run around the house yelling, “Rrrosess, rrroses! Rrrosess, rrrosesss!” Of course, we got in trouble for that.

paging the Lipstick and Prada queen of Dallas.

R25 I remember Roses, Roses! tee hee.

A friend's mother was the Avon Lady and was always trying to hustle my mom, who called her the Ding Dong Lady behind her back.

Yes. She was also our Dentist's Hygienist. My mom politely listened to her shpiel (same as Jehovah's Witnesses) but never bought anything. She wasn't a makeup-wearer.

r22, we were just above poor as fuck, and my mom liked cheap jewelry. after she died I had BOXES and BOXES of the stuff to get rid of