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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.
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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.[/quote]

All of this +1000.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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