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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why people just say to let DH handle the fallout. They are a family. [b]It will reflect poorly on the family[/b] 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.[/quote]

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.  
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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.  [/quote]

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...[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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 :(.

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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.  [/quote]

Yes, they somehow misdelivered or lost track of who they had delivered the cookies to.  That's why they have "leftovers".  Those leftovers are simply orders that have been paid for but not delivered - they aren't "free" cookies for your dh.  I know that you get that Op (I hope that your daughter does too).  I'm sorry that your husband doesn't.  [/quote]

Thanks, PP.

- OP[/quote]

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