I hate girl scout cookies.

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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.

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.

Sorry. Your particular friends may looooove them, but the military as a whole is INUNDATED with them every year and don’t want more.

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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.

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.

Sorry. Your particular friends may looooove them, but the military as a whole is INUNDATED with them every year and don’t want more.

And you know this how?

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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.

I’m GenX and while my brothers went on multiple awesome outdoor adventures, I sat in classrooms after school with my troop getting makeup tutorials and one interminable Saturday afternoon where a woman came to “do our colors” and tell us whether we should buy clothes in the colors of “winter, spring, summer or fall.” Barf. I wish Boy Scouts had been open to all when I was a kid.

I would hate it if that’s what my kid did too. But her troop has done horseback riding, hiking, ropes courses, dogsledding, coding, volunteered at an animal shelter, collected items for a homeless shelter. On tap this year are woodworking, bookbinding, and an astronomy outing.

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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.

I’m GenX and while my brothers went on multiple awesome outdoor adventures, I sat in classrooms after school with my troop getting makeup tutorials and one interminable Saturday afternoon where a woman came to “do our colors” and tell us whether we should buy clothes in the colors of “winter, spring, summer or fall.” Barf. I wish Boy Scouts had been open to all when I was a kid.

I'm GenX too, and I'm sorry you had such a crappy troop growing up! We did go to have our "colors done" once - I vividly remember that. But we also did lots of camping and hiking and archery and travel. I went to Niagra Falls and Cape Cod with my girl scout troop, learned to sail (not well or anything, but was introduced to it), went fishing several times, and actually had my first job at a Girl Scout camp.
Sadly, there are disappointing troops sometimes - it's a volunteer organization and sometimes you just get a dud. I recently learned my leader throughout middle school and high school died, and I'm so sad I didn't know at the time - I certainly would have sent flowers or something.