This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - let him handle the fall out - you let him run with this. Let him finish it.

Thanks.

Yeah.

That is the only thing I can think of too.

Still, it makes me feel embarrassed, for him, for my daughter, for us.

Why is everything so darn difficult?

You are overreacting. You probably make him miserable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dude, its extra cookies not the end of the world. Put an email out to the troop that you have extras. People will buy them.

What about our neighbors who have paid for cookies and then got nothing delivered?

Are you facebook friends or have email addresses for your neighbors? Could you post/message to everyone, "hey girl scout cookies are in. if you haven't received your order, let me know before DH eats them."

[Anonymous]

Sorry other posters are being so mean, OP.

It sounds like you have a lot of resentment against your husband and that this is the last straw. Of course you were right in letting him handle things. You shouldn't have to help him all the time.

I don't know about the GS cookie ordering and delivery business so can't help you there. Is it possible that the left-over cookies really are no one's property except yours?

[Anonymous]

Don't the buyers not pay until the cookies are delivered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - let him handle the fall out - you let him run with this. Let him finish it.

Thanks.

Yeah.

That is the only thing I can think of too.

Still, it makes me feel embarrassed, for him, for my daughter, for us.

Why is everything so darn difficult?

Some people are just not good at life. Sorry you married one of those people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dude, its extra cookies not the end of the world. Put an email out to the troop that you have extras. People will buy them.

What about our neighbors who have paid for cookies and then got nothing delivered?

I've been on the recieving (or not receiving, as it were!) end of this. My sister's bff was selling cookies for her daughter. I ended up with cookies I didn't order, and no Thin Mints. She lost track of who wanted what. I'm not ordering through her this year.

Sorry, op. [b] I've often wondered how these guys function at work when they can't handle administrative details at all. [/b]I can understand your frustration.

Thanks, PP. This is what I say all the time too. I am just so beaten down and exhausted by things like this happening all the time.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you should not allow him to do anything.

[Anonymous]

Trust me, no one is going to judge you for this, Holy overreaction. Your follow up posts only go to prove that he is not the only one with issues.

[Anonymous]

How about dh and dd double back around to everyone to make sure they got the right cookies? Its the right thing to do here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dude, its extra cookies not the end of the world. Put an email out to the troop that you have extras. People will buy them.

What about our neighbors who have paid for cookies and then got nothing delivered?

Are you facebook friends or have email addresses for your neighbors? Could you post/message to everyone, "hey girl scout cookies are in. if you haven't received your order, let me know before DH eats them."

Yeah. That would make it simpler. No, they are neighbors we do not know. We live in a big TH development and they are from another area of the development where we do not know most of the people.

[Anonymous]

Wow people here really like to blame posters for everything in the universe. What possible connection could there be between alleged micromanaging and nagging on OP's part and this girlscout cookie fuckup which she did did not play a part in?

Obviously, unless your DH or DD ordered extras (is that possible? Or did you do the ordering?), he and your daughter both screwed up here. I would not let your daughter off the hook as the whole point of girl scout cookie sales is to teach girls responsibility. Did she/they write down who ordered what and who they delivered them to? If not, if the sales were all to neighbors, can you have your DD send an email to a neighborhood list serve explaining the situation so people who didn't get their cookies can let her know?

If not, I don't know what you can do about it at this point other than explain calmly to your DD (within hearing of your DH) that she needs to keep better track next time. Nobody who ordered from a girl scout and then didn't get the cookies will order from her again next year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't the buyers not pay until the cookies are delivered?

No, we collected the $$ upfront. That is what our troop told us to do. I know other troops seem to do it differently.

I thought, ahead of time, "Oh, that'll make it so much easier." Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Does your dh have a disorder like adhd or dyslexia?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - let him handle the fall out - you let him run with this. Let him finish it.

Thanks.

Yeah.

That is the only thing I can think of too.

Still, it makes me feel embarrassed, for him, for my daughter, for us.

Why is everything so darn difficult?

Some people are just not good at life. Sorry you married one of those people.

Thanks yeah. This is pretty much it, I feel like. :*( He is competent at work but that is about it. :*(

[Anonymous]

Your post title makes no sense.

So your husband didn't keep track of cookie deliveries with the order? Um, ok. Does he not understand how to match up a customer's order with the boxes?

First, did you verify the order with the cookie mom when you got the cookies? You should've bc you had to sign off to verify that yor daughter did collectively sell 30 boxes of TM, 20 boxes of samoas, etc.

Didyour husband get mixed up with boxes donated to the charity?

There seems to be more to this than your post reveals. Are you sure you're not leaving out any important details?