If you’re like me, you are probably just getting dinner prepared, or sitting down with your family and the phone rings, perhaps even more than once.  It’s a pesky telemarketer.

You can block your phone number(s) — your home phone as well as your cell phone — to prevent telemarketing calls by calling 1-888-382-1222 or going on-line to www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx .

Even if you’ve done this in the past, it only lasts for 5 years, so be sure to repeat periodically.

Wishing you a quiet dinner hour!