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I give you my address and then you can send me the Samoan cookies. The caramel delight once. My favorite!
Since you don;t want them but still paying for it!
Pssst...Keebler now makes a cookie very similar to the Samoas!
Really? Girl Scout cookies are $3.50 a box and you can buy just one box. Our Fall product is a bit more expensive with most things costing between $5.00 and $10.00.
I also loved the send to the military option since lots of people can't eat the cookies or nuts and candy. Donating it to our troops is a nice option.
we have that option too, but yes, the popcorn is expensive, and their aren't really any cheap options. They all seem to be $18+. I'm not looking at it right now, but I know I spent $38 on 2 items.
She was alone. It was in the afternoon. It was also 1973, a more innocent time when people didn't think the 25-year-old schoolteacher neighbor, whom they knew, would rape your little girl, strangle her, and then stash her body in a state park.
Her mother has spent the past almost-forty years getting signatures to keep her daughter's murderer in jail every time he comes up for parole.
Joan's murder probably prompted some of the "buddy" rules. The Girl Scout organization has very strict rules about conduct and it gets changed as things occur.
For example, a married couple can no longer run a troop together because of a case in which a husband was molesting the girls and the wife knew and let it happen.
Just some dark-side GS trivia for you.
Those types of rules never made much sense to me. A woman can molest children and so can a dad running a troop alone. Seems a bit overboard.
I DO NOT want people coming to my door to sell things. Not even cookies.
I bought some at my office from a coworker. Her niece was a girl scout and couldn't come to the office. She did however include a handwritten thank you with a drawing with each delivery. I thought that was as good as coming in to make the sale.
Also, one other thing, if a child comes to our door selling something, we never say "no" to a child. Never. We buy something. I would never turn a child down!
I remember one time when I was out with my daughter selling the cookies. It was a Sunday so people were home watching the football games. We stopped at this one house and the lady bought 20 boxes - she was so excited she didn't mind going back home and filling up the red wagon one more time!
Never? I buy a discount card from the local HS football team for $20, and I always get the name of the player I bought it from. Then, when the next dozen boys come by, I say, "Oh, sorry, i already bought mine from so-and-so". I won't spend $240 to make them all happy.
We used to have some organization that would drop a literal busload of young inner-city kids in our town every Saturday. They would go door to door selling chocolate candy all day long, without water or bathroom breaks. After the 3rd time I was asked to let somebody in to use the bathroom, I started calling the police on the group. You needed to apply for a license to canvas in our town, and they didn't have one. I was always nice to the children, but I saw no reason to encourage the adults behind the sales.
When the kids come looking for sponsors, I only agree if it isn't run by a corporation that takes 80% of the monies raised. In that case, I write a check to the group doing the walk-a-thon, or whatever, so they get all of the money.
We stockpiled this year. I figured in the event of a national emergency I'd need a thin mint or two to get me through it. My DH made a couple of GSs very happy when he said, "Yes. I'll take 20 boxes please."
Yep, I'll always buy GS cookies. I wish other fundraisers would take note and sell less expensive items. The trend now seems to be to sell stuff that is minimally $20. Which means I'm stuck spending at least $20 for stuff I most likely don't want anyway. At least with GS cookies, as another poster mentioned, I can buy 1 box if I wanted to (OK, I have yet to only buy 1 box...but, the fact remains, I "could").
I DO NOT want people coming to my door to sell things. Not even cookies.
I bought some at my office from a coworker. Her niece was a girl scout and couldn't come to the office. She did however include a handwritten thank you with a drawing with each delivery. I thought that was as good as coming in to make the sale.
When I was in Girl Scouts it was the buddy rule. Now I hear you are not allowed to sell door to door under any circumstances.
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I figured in the event of a national emergency I'd need a thin mint or two to get me through it. My DH made a couple of GSs very happy when he said, "Yes. I'll take 20 boxes please."
