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Ten things I’ve learned from selling kitchen supplies door-to-door

February 21, 2011 by Josh Bowman Leave a Comment

People do not like to be bugged at home. Cookies and tea and some real human hospitality are a miracle for a teenage lad in the freezing Toronto winter. If you steal change from a donut store to pay for a day-old bag of donuts, you are a bad human being. If you hire teenagers [...]

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