Girlscout cookies
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Girlscout cookies
It is that time of year. Any other girlscouts selling cookies now? My 8 yr old just started selling them today, it was the official start day for this area. I hate going door to door. We mainly ask the people we know, and a few other houses that normally buy. So many people will not even answer their doors. I am not a seller, but I try to do as much as my daughter wants to do. She usually asks her teachers as well. My husband sells a few at work. I do not push it. I know some parents sell the cookies for the kids. I take her lead. If she feels like going door to door then we go,normally she does not.
We sold to a few neighbors around, and pretty much just went to the same few that we always went to and they usually bought them every year. DH and I would take the slips to work, and we would sell at church.
Sarah always got a patch and 2 different years, sold enough to get the good prize! Sometimes I was amazed at how easy it was and how little effort it really took. I'm glad those years are over now, though. Now, I just get to eat the cookies!
I even was the cookie mom one year, too. (Although, just a 550-box year, not the 2000-box year, that her troop had when it was bigger and the girls were younger!)
It was the official start here too. My dd almost 14, chose not to go out at 9 am and sell door to door. I do think she will go to a few houses. We will do most of our sales via cookie booths this year. That will be a new experience for us, we have done a booth each year, but never multiple booths
I have also done the cookie mom thing for several years. This year my co leader is doing it, although I do it as back up. Long story, but she has some health problems so once I had to go into her house while she was in icu and take over..LOL. She is a great woman and I am so thankful for her help.
Anyway, little known gs cookie facts.
There are 2 different bakers of GS cookies, Little Brownie Bakers and ABC cookies. There formulas are very similar, but just a touch different. They also offer different cookies, some are the same cookies with different names, like samoas and carmel delights are the same cookie.
Each gs council set the price for what to sell cookies at, they base it on what the cost of living is in their council and what they really think they can get for cookies. We sell at 3.50 a box.
Of that 3.50, the baker gets about 40 cents a box for the production. Each troop gets somewhere between 25-55 cents a box, depending on the area. As an older girl you get to opt for more money and no prizes. My girls pick that option and they will get 57 cents a box. That money is to be used at the leaders discretion, for a camping trip, a party, supplies, etc. 10 cents goes to the service unit, this is the local group of scouts, it helps pay for mother/daughter weekends, sing alongs etc. Of the money that is left, all of it goes to girl activites, none to salaries. Most of it goes to the campgrounds. I take my girls camping for as long as we want on gs property for 25 dollars, they will have tents, utensels, pots, plates, etc. All we need to bring are clothes and food. Some camps have lifeguard staffed pools, horseback riding, canoes, etc. Anyway, the girls really benefit from cookie sales.
Our cookies are $3.50 as well... for the last two years the girls used the money they earn to go to THE Great Wolfe Lodge in Williamsburg. I wish they would choose something different, LOL...but they love it there 
Kaye, if the baker gets 40 cents, and the GS get about 40 cents, what on earth happens to the other $2.70??
kate...to the facilities such as camps, horses, canoes, archery ranges, etc. All directly back into girl programing.
Cookies by us, are $3.00/box and the troops get $.50/box.
Sorry, Kaye! Somehow I missed that in your message the first time...major lack of sleep going on here...
The Girl Scouts here sold cookies in the fall. I thought that was strange because they always sold in Jan/Feb in Louisiana, but here it was Sept/Oct. I'm glad people go door to door. I LOVE GS Cookies and if I don't work with someone with a dtr in GS I have to track down a GS somewhere . The problem this year is that the cookies came while I was in Honduras and the kids at every single cookie (I bought 6 boxes) before I got home. I didn't get 1 single thin mint cookie  .
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Pam, that is tragic! I understand your pain! I have to order 2 boxes of thin mints, at my house! LOL!
OMGoodness. We have been hitting the streets for 3 days. Our sales started on Fri. I have two dd's selling now so we had to put forth much more effort. It's actually nice with them together , but it's me, the four kids and the dog going door to door. My younger dd is actually very excited and motivated. I couldn't not support that.
Here is a bit of drama we encountered. On Fri. morning my dd went to school 1/2 hr early to hit up the teachers. A parent in our troop got mad at my DD for asking a teacher (a past customer from last year) who is currently teaching her son. She told my DD that her daughter was going to ask the teacher since her son was in her class. My dd said she said something like "Hey, you can't ask her!! Do you have a student in her class? My dd puckered but said she thought to herself, no I don't have kids duh! The teacher ordered 1 box from my DD anyway, but it was very upsetting for DD. SHe cried all afternoon. I think why she was so upset was because the parent was "kidding" but not. I think she picked up on that mixed message and was unsure how to read the parent.
After feeling really bothered at how upset my DD felt I called the Mom and asked her if she wanted the box the teacher had bought. She said no and that she was kidding when she spoke to my daughter, however she was also trying to speak to the teacher so she would save an order for her daughter too. I knew then that she did send mixed signals, acting like she was kidding but not really kidding. I told her my dd was hurt. She later apolgized to her.
Jeepers! I feel like that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where he fought with another Mom over a cookie sales location!! LOL. I'm not into sales enough to start getting competitive.
Teachers can order from more than one child. What a nasty mom! Sheesh! She should have just kept her mouth shut.
Ugh! I don't know any girl scouts, but I love the cookies! I guess I'll have to hunt one done as well. I'm a samoa girl myself!!
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