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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I say book the trip now and if the other family gets back to you after that, tell them "sorry you missed the deadline".  Is she even a registered member of your troop to even be included on the trip?  If she hasn't done the cookie sales to raise money for the troop outing, I don't see how she could be included to spend the other girls money on the trip. [/quote]

She is a registered member although it takes several reminders each year for her family to complete it.  Cookie season with Suzie is another story all together.  Just venting here but her parents will show up to a booth where she's not signed up and without a uniform because "she wants to sell more cookies" which then makes the numbers lower for the other girls at that booth spot.  Then when she only sells like 50 the whole season she gets mad that she doesn't get the swag the other girls do.  I am not the cookie mom so luckily I don't have to deal with that too much.

Our troop doesn't have any selling requirements though.  We actually had a girl with us for the first 4 years whose mom wouldn't sell cookies because she was against the idea for nutritional reasons.  So we decided early on that cookie selling is a choice and the girls could set their own goals and vote on what we do with the money.  As they enter middle school and if we stay together we may reexamine that policy but when they were little it seemed to work well.[/quote]

If she's showing up for extra spots, why are her numbers lower then?  I don't approve of the showing up unannounced routine, but maybe her parents were at least trying to address the kid's disappointment with prior year's swag by letting her sell extra at booths.  But it's clearly not working if her numbers are still lower than the other girls.  I guess she isn't selling much from a non-booth situation, e.g., to friends and family?[/quote]

She does zero pre-sales and practically no sales to family/friends (maybe 10-15 boxes).  Her parents miss the deadlines to sign her up for booths (shocking!) and then just show up randomly which reduces numbers for other girls.  Well, that's what they did this year.  I believe cookie mom told them they couldn't do that any more but she's a softie and felt sorry for Suzie I think.  I mean, we all do, it's not her fault that her parents are so irresponsible!![/quote]

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