Are you buying "girls scouts cookies" from your coworkers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with selling at work. I’m a partner at a boutique law firm, and I just leave the sheet out for my daughter in the pantry on the counter. I don’t email or ask ANYONE. My partners and colleagues are more than happy to buy from her, and those sales are going somewhere so they might as well go to my daughter and her troop.

You think they are more than happy, but they are complaining about you.

DP. I'd be singing her praises.

[Anonymous]

They are made with palm oil. Nasty cheap stuff.

[Anonymous]

No.

I did reluctantly order one box from my best friend, because her DD was selling them.
And I did order a box because one BRAVE little GS knocked on my door all by herself and made a speech. That was well-deserved.

But I ignored the email sent by an acquaintance linking to a website to buy GS cookies to benefit her DD's troop. The girls had no input, it was just her mother emailing people, which is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

I did reluctantly order one box from my best friend, because her DD was selling them.
And I did order a box because one BRAVE little GS knocked on my door all by herself and made a speech. That was well-deserved.

But I ignored the email sent by an acquaintance linking to a website to buy GS cookies to benefit her DD's troop. The girls had no input, it was just her mother emailing people, which is ridiculous.

And in case you hadn't understood, I hate Girl Scout cookies. As PP said, they're not well made and taste bad. So if the girls don't even put any effort into selling them, what's the point?

[Anonymous]

No. If a Girl Scout asks me, I'll give her troop a check for $10. Each box of cookies is only $.50 to the troop, and I don't need to spend $5 on a $.50 donation.

The "donate to the military" isn't what it seems either. My company did a volunteer day at the USO on belvoir last year, and they sent us each home with 10+ boxes of cookies. They said they had so many they weren't even sending them all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a Girl Scout actually asks me, I buy. This year, I got an email from a Girl Scout that I knew through church, and I ordered from her. Some of the other girls, their moms "mentioned" it, but I didn't buy from them. If no one asks in a year, then I'll buy a box or two from the groups set up at the grocery store.

Boy Scouts,have to step up their game, though. That popcorn is a complete ripoff. I bought one bag this year because a neighborhood boy knocked on the door. But it was $15 for a regular grocery store-sized bag of popcorn! At least the Girl Scouts only hit you up for $4-5.

Selling popcorn was the worst part of scouting. DS was always so eager to go and sell it and did the speech well, but it’s too expensive because so much does go back to the Scouts. It’s basically a donation and you get a bag of popcorn on the side. It would be worth joining a Mormon troop just because they don’t sell popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I only but cookies from girls who are actually there selling them themselves (door to door, in front of stores, etc). So I am not buying them from colleagues who bring the sales sheets to work, from friends advertising their kids' cookies on FB, etc.

My daughter went door to door - I went with her. Sadly of the 15 homes we went to of friends on our block - at times when it looked like someone was home - 3 families answered the door and purchased cookies.

Our neighbor did this this week and I was at the end of her route. She had gotten tons of orders. Maybe it's your neighborhood. Ours is not particularly friendly either.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind if they sell at work but I am trying to lose weight so I do not buy them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind if they sell at work but I am trying to lose weight so I do not buy them.

that's an excuse. you can still buy them... buying it doesn't make you fat. just don't eat em.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. If a Girl Scout asks me, I'll give her troop a check for $10. Each box of cookies is only $.50 to the troop, and I don't need to spend $5 on a $.50 donation.

The "donate to the military" isn't what it seems either. My company did a volunteer day at the USO on belvoir last year, and they sent us each home with 10+ boxes of cookies. They said they had so many they weren't even sending them all.

I had no idea the troop received so little. Also that they aren't necessarily being shipped to the military.

[Anonymous]

I don't think anyone should be selling at work. I never did, and I never bought at work either.

"Sorry, I bought from my neighbor."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind if they sell at work but I am trying to lose weight so I do not buy them.

that's an excuse. you can still buy them... buying it doesn't make you fat. just don't eat em.

DP

Not an excuse. It's a reason not to buy them. "Excuse" implies there is some obligation to buy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. If a Girl Scout asks me, I'll give her troop a check for $10. Each box of cookies is only $.50 to the troop, and I don't need to spend $5 on a $.50 donation.

The "donate to the military" isn't what it seems either. My company did a volunteer day at the USO on belvoir last year, and they sent us each home with 10+ boxes of cookies. They said they had so many they weren't even sending them all.

I had no idea the troop received so little. Also that they aren't necessarily being shipped to the military.

I've never heard that about the military before. Maybe that was a local decision?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just bought 2 boxes on Friday, and I'm trying to loose weight, I wish I hadn't been asked.

it's lose not loose

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I only but cookies from girls who are actually there selling them themselves (door to door, in front of stores, etc). So I am not buying them from colleagues who bring the sales sheets to work, from friends advertising their kids' cookies on FB, etc.

My daughter went door to door - I went with her. Sadly of the 15 homes we went to of friends on our block - at times when it looked like someone was home - 3 families answered the door and purchased cookies.

Can she set up shop in front of a store?

You can only do a cookie booth through the Council. They have spots in front of stores and your troop has to sign up for them.