This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m

Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead

OP you are just awful.

A friend's daughter is a Girl Scout, and they are only allowed to order full cases, no partial ones. So she always has "leftovers". I just bought 5 boxes of leftover Thin Mints from her.

Stay out of it OP.

This. Every GS parent knows this. Sounds like OP is pretty clueless about what her child is doing. You owe your husband a serious apology for being a nasty, nasty hag.

Same troll? This is NOT the way it works. Sounds like you have never done GS cookie selling in your life.

[Anonymous]

I had boy scouts sell me chocolate popcorn for $8 and they didn't come back 2 months later with the popcorn as promised. Not a big deal, but I told myself I wouldn't buy again. It's a moot point though because they didn't come to sell the following year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.

Actually, having just done scout sales, if you have preorders for 7 boxes of thin mints, you need to order a case (so 12 boxes). So it's totally possible for "left overs" - this is why people sell them at cookie booths

The "left overs" that you paid for (when you put down the deposit for the cookies) your daughter should work with the troop to sell at the cookie booth.

As for the way OP talks about her husband. Yikes.

Op says that she picked up the exact order based on the orders on her daughter's sheet. She didn't pick up extra cookies, she had the exact number of boxes to deliver.

Any extra boxes would have gone to the sidewalk sale that the troop does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.

Actually, having just done scout sales, if you have preorders for 7 boxes of thin mints, you need to order a case (so 12 boxes). So it's totally possible for "left overs" - this is why people sell them at cookie booths

The "left overs" that you paid for (when you put down the deposit for the cookies) your daughter should work with the troop to sell at the cookie booth.

As for the way OP talks about her husband. Yikes.

This is completely wrong. Your customers ordered 7 Thin Mints? You pick up 7 Thin Mints. Like the PP above said, ti is a grid with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person orderd and paid for. You sign off on it when you pick up your cookies from the cookie mom.

I have never heard of this. Do you live in DC? I've been in two troops, and I have friends in other troops. This sounds like a crazy ass backwards way to sell cookies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.

Actually, having just done scout sales, if you have preorders for 7 boxes of thin mints, you need to order a case (so 12 boxes). So it's totally possible for "left overs" - this is why people sell them at cookie booths

The "left overs" that you paid for (when you put down the deposit for the cookies) your daughter should work with the troop to sell at the cookie booth.

As for the way OP talks about her husband. Yikes.

Op says that she picked up the exact order based on the orders on her daughter's sheet. She didn't pick up extra cookies, she had the exact number of boxes to deliver.

Any extra boxes would have gone to the sidewalk sale that the troop does.

Yes, I did not pick up any extra boxes. I picked up the exact order based upon the orders on my daughter's sheet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.

Actually, having just done scout sales, if you have preorders for 7 boxes of thin mints, you need to order a case (so 12 boxes). So it's totally possible for "left overs" - this is why people sell them at cookie booths

The "left overs" that you paid for (when you put down the deposit for the cookies) your daughter should work with the troop to sell at the cookie booth.

As for the way OP talks about her husband. Yikes.

This is completely wrong. Your customers ordered 7 Thin Mints? You pick up 7 Thin Mints. Like the PP above said, ti is a grid with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person orderd and paid for. You sign off on it when you pick up your cookies from the cookie mom.

I have never heard of this. Do you live in DC? I've been in two troops, and I have friends in other troops. This sounds like a crazy ass backwards way to sell cookies.

I live in Northern VA. I don't know if it is "crazy ass" but that is the way it was done when I sold cookies as a kid and that is the way it is done now when my child is selling cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m

Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead

OP you are just awful.

A friend's daughter is a Girl Scout, and they are only allowed to order full cases, no partial ones. So she always has "leftovers". I just bought 5 boxes of leftover Thin Mints from her.

Stay out of it OP.

This. Every GS parent knows this. Sounds like OP is pretty clueless about what her child is doing. You owe your husband a serious apology for being a nasty, nasty hag.

Same troll? This is NOT the way it works. Sounds like you have never done GS cookie selling in your life.

NP here - our troop does it the same way. (Order by the case) - do you order online? How do you break up the cases?

[Anonymous]

Perhaps the troop has to buy cookies by the case, but the individual scout parents pick up exact numbers from the troops. I don't think OP is buying them directly from GS Cookie Central. She is buying them from the boxes already stocked by the troop. The leftovers are owned by the troop, not OP's idiot dh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the troop has to buy cookies by the case, but the individual scout parents pick up exact numbers from the troops. I don't think OP is buying them directly from GS Cookie Central. She is buying them from the boxes already stocked by the troop. The leftovers are owned by the troop, not OP's idiot dh.

Yes, exactly. What she said.

- OP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people just say to let DH handle the fallout. They are a family. It will reflect poorly on the family not just on DH. They will not support the kid in whatever else she raises money for. And, honestly, when the neighbors are thinking about this situation they will be thinking about the mother bc the father was just so sweet taking his daughter around and can't possibly be accountable for the fiasco because he is just a dumb man. Drives me nuts.

Really? Does messing up a cookie order "reflect poorly on the family"? Newsflash- your neighbors don't spend that much time thinking about your family in these terms. And if they do, it means they have no life, so why would you care? If someone is so petty that he or she were to judge me for messing up a cookie order, I'd be quite happy not to have anything to do with that person anyway.

+1000

If you are a family who is sitting around discussing how a cookie mix-up "reflects poorly" on the neighbors down the street, you have much bigger problems than a box of Thin Mints on the counter that should have been two boxes of Tagalongs.

The neighbors will understand. They'll just be happy it didn't happen to them and their kid, lol. But the lesson that Op's child takes from this is what matters...

With this level of involvement/screwing up by the dh, I'm assuming the daughter is pretty young and doesn't know that anything is amiss.

Unlikely. The girl went door to door making the sales. The neighbors wrote their orders on the sheet clearly enough so that the Op could go and pick up the cookies from the Cookie Mom. It sounds as though Op's dh and daughter started to deliver the cookies but lost track of who they delivered to (?) and maybe misdelivered some boxes. And now they have a bunch of boxes that don't match their order sheet. So the dh has just decided enough is enough - "Free cookies!" But if Op's daughter involved at all in the delivery she knows that she didn't deliver all of her orders and that something got confused. So now they get to eat free cookies .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m

Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead

OP you are just awful.

A friend's daughter is a Girl Scout, and they are only allowed to order full cases, no partial ones. So she always has "leftovers". I just bought 5 boxes of leftover Thin Mints from her.

Stay out of it OP.

This. Every GS parent knows this. Sounds like OP is pretty clueless about what her child is doing. You owe your husband a serious apology for being a nasty, nasty hag.

Same troll? This is NOT the way it works. Sounds like you have never done GS cookie selling in your life.

NP here - our troop does it the same way. (Order by the case) - do you order online? How do you break up the cases?

Cookie Mom may order by the case (I don't know, I've never been Cookie Mom, hey, at least I know my family's limits on this one and will never commit us to THAT!). But when I arrive at Cookie Mom's house, I pick up the exact amount of boxes my customers have ordered. That means I may walk away with one full case of Thin Mints but 2-3 extra loose Thin Mints. Cookie Mom has already divided this out for me. I don't know if this is how she has gotten them too from the higher-ups, or if she has had to get them all in cases, or what.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people just say to let DH handle the fallout. They are a family. It will reflect poorly on the family not just on DH. They will not support the kid in whatever else she raises money for. And, honestly, when the neighbors are thinking about this situation they will be thinking about the mother bc the father was just so sweet taking his daughter around and can't possibly be accountable for the fiasco because he is just a dumb man. Drives me nuts.

Really? Does messing up a cookie order "reflect poorly on the family"? Newsflash- your neighbors don't spend that much time thinking about your family in these terms. And if they do, it means they have no life, so why would you care? If someone is so petty that he or she were to judge me for messing up a cookie order, I'd be quite happy not to have anything to do with that person anyway.

+1000

If you are a family who is sitting around discussing how a cookie mix-up "reflects poorly" on the neighbors down the street, you have much bigger problems than a box of Thin Mints on the counter that should have been two boxes of Tagalongs.

The neighbors will understand. They'll just be happy it didn't happen to them and their kid, lol. But the lesson that Op's child takes from this is what matters...

With this level of involvement/screwing up by the dh, I'm assuming the daughter is pretty young and doesn't know that anything is amiss.

Unlikely. The girl went door to door making the sales. The neighbors wrote their orders on the sheet clearly enough so that the Op could go and pick up the cookies from the Cookie Mom. It sounds as though Op's dh and daughter started to deliver the cookies but lost track of who they delivered to (?) and maybe misdelivered some boxes. And now they have a bunch of boxes that don't match their order sheet. So the dh has just decided enough is enough - "Free cookies!" But if Op's daughter involved at all in the delivery she knows that she didn't deliver all of her orders and that something got confused. So now they get to eat free cookies .

OP back. DD (2nd grade) and DH went around making the sales. Neighbors wrote their orders on the sheet. I (OP) went to pick up cookies from Cookie Mom. DH and DD did deliveries. Now he tells me there are leftovers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the troop has to buy cookies by the case, but the individual scout parents pick up exact numbers from the troops. I don't think OP is buying them directly from GS Cookie Central. She is buying them from the boxes already stocked by the troop. The leftovers are owned by the troop, not OP's idiot dh.

Yes, exactly. What she said.

- OP

Lol...how is this fight still going on after this post?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had boy scouts sell me chocolate popcorn for $8 and they didn't come back 2 months later with the popcorn as promised. Not a big deal, but I told myself I wouldn't buy again. It's a moot point though because they didn't come to sell the following year.

Oddly enough we had a lady order a bag of chocolate popcorn (but we were taking payment at time of delivery). We tried to deliver the popcorn to her and she said she didn't want it. We ended up forking over the money for that popcorn sale ourselves. We kept it, ate it and paid for it. It was goood!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has done scout sales would understand that scouts don't order a little of this and a little of that and then hope it matches what people pre-ordered. The number of boxes received should exactly equal the number of boxes on the sheet. And the scout parent has to deliver the money before taking possession of any cookies. It's a grid, with name on each row and the exact type of cookies each person ordered (and paid for). How could anybody screw this up? I would be livid, knowing that neighbors paid for cookies that my DH was sitting there eating.

Actually, having just done scout sales, if you have preorders for 7 boxes of thin mints, you need to order a case (so 12 boxes). So it's totally possible for "left overs" - this is why people sell them at cookie booths

The "left overs" that you paid for (when you put down the deposit for the cookies) your daughter should work with the troop to sell at the cookie booth.

As for the way OP talks about her husband. Yikes.

Op says that she picked up the exact order based on the orders on her daughter's sheet. She didn't pick up extra cookies, she had the exact number of boxes to deliver.

Any extra boxes would have gone to the sidewalk sale that the troop does.

Cookie momster here. For us, in the Nation's Capital region of the GS, The TROOP does get extra cookies because we can only order full cases of cookies. Each case has 12 boxes of cookies in it. If a troop odered a total of 11 boxes of thin mints they would get a case of thin mints, so would have one box left over. Which somebody has to pay for (yes, the booth sales, or neighbors, etc. etc.). But that is troop based. No troop will end up with more than 11 extra boxes of each cookie flavor.

But each GIRL gets exactly what she ordered.

Perhaps dad ordered his own leftovers.