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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the Girl Scouts would figure out a new gig. Nobody needs those second rate cookies. Many who order them throw them out.

But how are kids getting 200 orders? They aren't. Their popular/social/well-connected parents are putting the ask out on facebook.

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This. I love Girl Scouts, it's been great for my kids but I am really, really over selling cookies. Neighbors don't answer their doors anymore, nobody wants to spend money immediately after Christmas and Hanukkah, it's COLD outside, and all my local friends have girls around the same age selling their own cookies. Most of my and DH's co-workers are not local, so I don't bother selling to co-workers. At most, my girls have sold 20 boxes a year. This year, we're selling to the handful of people who responded on Facebook and neighbors who asked about it, and they'll make the rest of their money at booths. I actually wish the entire organization would just switch to doing booths and not bother with individual sales.[/quote]

So skip individual sales.  Lots and lots of families do.  I’m a little irritated by all the UMC parents complaining about this …. How do you think they keep prices so low for girls from low income families?  It’s all that cookie money.  And lots of girls from low income families need cookies to fund their troops because their parents can’t shell out $10 here and there for activities.  
We do Boy Scouts also and the costs ate literally 10x as much, because they don’t have that cookie income.  
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