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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Selling Girl Scout cookies doesn’t teach girls a damn thing except how to be underpaid worker bees for Corporate America.  Each troop gets less than $1 per box.  This is just a freaking scam that uses cute girls to sell overpriced mass produced cookies to well meaning suckers.[/quote]

If that's how you feel, don't buy them, but my kids have been able to use cookie money to pay for pretty much everything and they do things they otherwise would not have been able to do. The troop buys everyone's vests, pins, badges, and patches, plus all the supplies they need to earn their badges at meetings and by doing projects (and my girls' troops have done some big outdoor projects like planting trees, etc.). And then field trips/overnights - when they were younger, they did things like farm visits, animal sanctuary visits, dog sledding, maker spaces, etc., and when they got older they have done more overnights (camping, museums, even Philadelphia and New York weekend trips). Oh and each year they donate food and supplies to at least one organization (homeless shelters, animal shelters, etc.). And my oldest is in 6th grade - the middle and high schoolers do a lot more, some of them are able to fund international trips and use money to do huge service projects to earn their gold award.

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