Have the J.Witnesses dropped by your place yet today?
They have treated my street as a hotbed of prospects for years despite that my street is basically populated by hermits, recluses, shut-ins or whatever other multiple-anti-socials we are. I wouldn't recognize my neighbors if I belly bounced them.
So the JWs. My technique in my late age is just to let them stand at the gate (which has a chain and lock) for their good two minutes. The ladies are graced with long skirts and parasols, the gentlemen with dress shirts and ties. My sainted mother's chosen reaction 70 yrs ago was to *fume* and rant, "I *HAVE* my religion!1"
One of the many things I've learned at DU is that the JWs have made significant contributions to our civil liberties through their litigiousness. And they know their law, like, about their right to park in front of my property on a public street, although they throw in their personal preference of parking under my tree shade and NEVER at my various neighbors' places.
But when I submit to a label for myself I say "secular humanist" or somesuch and I like Bill MAHER's take on religions, but I generally have a hands-off indifference so long as they/whoever keep hands-off me. But as an erstwhile fringe-Hippie, I dabble in whatever's convenient for coping with daily travails --- like, thinking of a Buddhist precept on not giving suffering importance while a nurse is missiing my vein, or a Shinto nugget about there being a spirit in every existent thing or meditating through brews. I'm not above taking a thought from even rascally outfits like Scientology, like, "clearing" the mind of negativities that hamper.
But these JWs: What is it about their proseletyzing that has them hooked?!1 Have they really had that much success in converting anybody?!1 I couldn't sell lettuce to a rabbit, myself. Besides, here they are in a piece of geography where their metaphysics is not exactly unknown to anybody.
Back before I started ignoring them, I would briefly engage by quoting back at them, (paraphrase: ) "If you are rejected at the door, shake the dust off your sandals and begone!1"
One time they caught me outdoors and I didn't approach them but said, "If it's about religion I don't want to talk." And they said, "Oh, not religion. So can we talk to you about THE BIBLE?!1" I said stormily, "WHAT DID I SAY?!1" Haha.
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Talk about standing out like a sore thumb.
If they wanted to be more effective in my parts, they'd wear sandals, cargo shorts, and Aloha shirts.
Or negligees.
I'll would never turn away anyone in a negligee.
...they would clear out, not just out of the neighborhood but over into the next time zone!
Maybe I'll sing "Happy Birthday" to them. They're not allowed to celebrate birthdays.
Or perhaps offer to cast a spell for their enlightenment.
She's very kind and so far has paid the rent on time. She hasn't tried to convert me, but the neighbors might be a different story. 
In the three years we've been here, not a single religious solicitor. 
