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There is a Signature brand (Vons, Albertsons in our area) thin mint-type cookie that is excellent! (Maybe called Grasshoppers).Wasn’t as impressed with the Samoas knockoff. But if I stumble upon a girl scout I’ll get some Thin Mints to put out on my old folks home hallway table between the Valentine’s candy and Easter treats.GS Cookies are so expensive ....... and good tasting cheaper knock offs are available.
If one is simply looking for cookies there are certainly much cheaper options. This is about supporting the local Girl Scout troop. That said, the girls earn less than $1 per box sold. The Girl Scouts would be better off if we just gave them $2 cash and then bought those cheaper knock offs elsewhere. That would likely still be cheaper for us looking for a cookie fix and the Girl Scouts double their money. Win-win!GS Cookies are so expensive ....... and good tasting cheaper knock offs are available.
My daughter was a Girl Scout, so I feel obliged to buy at least one box.GS Cookies are so expensive ....... and good tasting cheaper knock offs are available.
Yes, absolutely. Rick will be buying at least 10, half of them Samoas. This is about supporting Girl Scouts, not about the "expensive cookies." Anything kids sell for schools, church, etc., is going to be more expensive than what you would pay at the grocery store for similar things.
I had just joined GS as a Brownie, but was so new they didn’t have a “crate” of cookies for me to sell. Unfortunately no one told me so I dragged the heavy crate the three blocks home, only to have my mother answer the phone and be told one of the other girls ended up without cookies to sell. I was heartbroken. I don’t know if I was still a Brownie the next year, maybe, but I didn’t make it two years because I wouldn’t go alone to a meeting when my friend down the street was on vacation. Mom found me hanging out in our front yard after she told me to go alone and she made me call the Brownie leader and resign that afternoon. Mom will be 90 Wednesday and I still hold this against her in a tiny corner of my soul. I was/am not a comfortable joiner of groups, and that certainly didn’t help give me social skills.
Sometimes these groups can be clicky. I was encouraged by a friend to join her capefire Girls group. Let’s just say I was not welcomed warmly. My friend resigned from that group and her mother started a new Campfire group with us and some others who were not welcome in the clicky group. We had fun !
We usually buy $50 to $100 of the Samoas from a special girl scout that is one of are friends grand daughter. I buy them thinking I'm going to give them away but it's my kyrtonite and I find ways to eat them with coffee in the morning, mid morning snack, they make a great lunch with coffee, mid afternoon snack, after diner and before bed.
It's what they do best. GSCs essentially sell themselves, you do not need to go door-to-door (d2d) to sell them. Now, if a kid wants to go d2d, they will sell a ton more. For instance, a few years ago, a GS troop set up a table outside a Marijuana dispensary, they made record sales until their council put a stop to it due to "image". When my wife was a co-leader of a troop, we could sell without having a table somewhere, which was easy.
When my girls were in Girl Scouts, and this would have been 20+ years ago, they did both. They went door to door and also had tables outside the grocery stores. The grocery store tables were assigned, you couldn't just go set up a table wherever or whenever you wanted. Some girls had parents who could take the order sheets into work. My daughter was hoping to have that happen at her work this year. So far, no one has a scout. We are usually at the grocery store too early in the mornings to find anyone. She is hoping to maybe get some while we are on Maui, as she was able to do that one year.
The kids did both in the 1980's as well. Door-to-door was better for the troop because every girl was working separately. Put 10 girls at a table, they aren't going to sell as many as going out on their own.
