I hate girl scout cookies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like someone doesn’t know that thin mints go in the freezer. life changing, OP. Try it.

Also, I’m sorry. These activities will be behind you before you know it though. I’m pretty sure my girl is in her last year of scouts so I’m a bit nostalgic.

Op here, my kids don't do girl scouts but lots of their friends do. So my doorbell was ringing like crazy, my texts and emails piling up, and getting accosted outside the supermarket. I buy a box or two from the closest friend but they're just so not worth it to me.

And yes I've frozen thin mints. Meh.

+1 on the Thin Mints. Not impressed with them frozen or otherwise. And I'm a mint lover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t buy. Problem solved. If you decide to buy, STFU and buy.

Ohhh hit a nerve

[Anonymous]

Love the lemon ups, thin mints, samoas, trefoils and adventurfuls. Once a year buying girl scouts cookies is a family tradition for us

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like someone doesn’t know that thin mints go in the freezer. life changing, OP. Try it.

Also, I’m sorry. These activities will be behind you before you know it though. I’m pretty sure my girl is in her last year of scouts so I’m a bit nostalgic.

Op here, my kids don't do girl scouts but lots of their friends do. So my doorbell was ringing like crazy, my texts and emails piling up, and getting accosted outside the supermarket. I buy a box or two from the closest friend but they're just so not worth it to me.

And yes I've frozen thin mints. Meh.

You don't have to buy them for yourself, you can donate money to the "Troop 2 Troop" program and they will send boxes to the military. They really do it, I have several friends who said they received boxes when they were stationed overseas and loved getting them. One co-worker told me that sometimes by the time they got them, they were in crumbles, and he really enjoyed making "thin mint cereal". He bought some to donate from my daughters!

They are only being polite. The military doesn’t want them either. They get boxes upon boxes of them and toss a large number of them because no one wants them.

[Anonymous]

I just write a check as a donation. No cookies needed and not a big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. They’re made with poor quality ingredients and are no better than generic supermarket cookies. People are attached because of nostalgia and ties to Girl Scouts and “girl empowerment”.

+1 I think they really did taste better when we were kids, though. Like Halloween candy and McDonald’s. Quality of ingredients has taken a nosedive overall and everything tastes meh.

Yeah, probably not. You got older and when you are exposed to higher quality food as an adult, your tastes change. That shit always tasted meh and still does and kids still love it like we did.

Nah. Most of these foods have changed their recipes and ingredients. They actually do taste different from when were kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Samoas and thin mints and Tagalongs and shortbread are literally the only cookies I like! I rarely eat sweets but love GS cookies. Hearing they are made of poor ingredients tells me something about myself lol. I’m glad they only exist once a year.

I feel like you would like many a Trader Joe’s cookies. Give them a try.

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Anonymous wrote:Girl Scout mom here - I agree, most of them are not very good and I HATE the focus on selling cookies/fundraising. Girl Scouts is so much fun, but they like to bill cookie sales as "entrepreneurship" and it's not, it's just plain fundraising and I hate it.

I absolutely despised having to sell cookies and it was one of the two reasons I left Girl Scouts.

The other reason? I thought we'd be going camping and learning natural history and outdoor skills, and, instead, we made sit-upons and decorated lunch boxes.

All of this +1000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just write a check as a donation. No cookies needed and not a big deal.

This is a great idea. A lot of the cookie money doesn't go to the troop.

[Anonymous]

I also hate them, but can't resist. It is nostalgia that drives me to buy a box of Thin Mints each year.

[Anonymous]

what the heck is a sit-upon

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Girl Scout mom here - I agree, most of them are not very good and I HATE the focus on selling cookies/fundraising. Girl Scouts is so much fun, but they like to bill cookie sales as "entrepreneurship" and it's not, it's just plain fundraising and I hate it.

I absolutely despised having to sell cookies and it was one of the two reasons I left Girl Scouts.

The other reason? I thought we'd be going camping and learning natural history and outdoor skills, and, instead, we made sit-upons and decorated lunch boxes.

The reason you didn't camp is because none of the parents volunteered to sign up for campout training and Girl Scouts makes it really, really difficult for a parent to do camp out training - the closest ones are at least an hour from where I live and require an overnight. They are only offered once or twice a year. It's a huge pain and nobody wants to do it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like someone doesn’t know that thin mints go in the freezer. life changing, OP. Try it.

Also, I’m sorry. These activities will be behind you before you know it though. I’m pretty sure my girl is in her last year of scouts so I’m a bit nostalgic.

Op here, my kids don't do girl scouts but lots of their friends do. So my doorbell was ringing like crazy, my texts and emails piling up, and getting accosted outside the supermarket. I buy a box or two from the closest friend but they're just so not worth it to me.

And yes I've frozen thin mints. Meh.

You don't have to buy them for yourself, you can donate money to the "Troop 2 Troop" program and they will send boxes to the military. They really do it, I have several friends who said they received boxes when they were stationed overseas and loved getting them. One co-worker told me that sometimes by the time they got them, they were in crumbles, and he really enjoyed making "thin mint cereal". He bought some to donate from my daughters!

They are only being polite. The military doesn’t want them either. They get boxes upon boxes of them and toss a large number of them because no one wants them.

These are not people who would say something to be polite to me, but thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what the heck is a sit-upon

A cushion that you can sit on outdoors, like for sitting around a campfire.

[Anonymous]

I like them, especially the lemon ones. I only have boys so I don’t have to deal with the selling side, thank goodness.