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So YOU (mom) didn't keep track of who ordered? You said that dad didn't keep track of who ordered.... why didn't you give him a list of who ordered? What the big deal anyway? Just look at your list of who ordered and see who got their stuff?

By the way... you sound horrible [/quote]

Oh, yay, crazy MRA poster is back!

OP, no advice, but this would aggravate me to no end.  Makes me want to do everything in my power to discourage DD from joining GS when the time comes (she's only 2 y.o. now).[/quote]

Scouting is awesome!  Don't let this tale of woe discourage you from allowing your daughter to be in Girl Scouts.  I would suggest that you try a smaller route when they first start out.  Have her sell to the neighbors/friends/colleagues/family members that you know.  Don't try to do the whole neighborhood the first time around especially if you tend to be a bit on the disorganized side.

Cookie sales can and should be a fun learning experience for the kids (and their parents).  It very rarely results in the type of confusion that Op is describing although small slip ups do happen sometimes.    [/quote]

+1.  Our girls can skip sales if they want, but most want to do at least some selling.  It's good for them to have to go to a door, knock politely, speak politely to the adult, and write down the order.  Most of them can also handle the simple math to add up the orders and money due.  If you are selling more than your girl can handle herself with some moderate supervision, than you are selling too much.  The point is for the girl to develop her organization and public speaking skills, not for the parent to rack up the sales numbers.
Clearly the husband here either skipped some houses (which could have been prevented by checking off each delivery as you do it), or he delivered the wrong orders (maybe the person on line 1 only ordered 2 boxes, whereas the person on line 2 ordered 10 boxes, and he gave the same delivery to line 1 and line 2 because he failed to carefully read across the lines -- which is hard to do, given that the form has the line numbers on both the left and right side of the sheet).
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