Nanny here. I walked my charge around 2 years ago. We had several families who paid upon order and gave dates for delivery several weeks to two months after money would be due. When families know that they won’t be available during the normal delivery period, it’s wonderful!

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to clarify—you know you don’t collect money until delivery, right? That’s a major rule in cookie sales.

Our troop doesn’t have the funds not to. The slip comes with an envelope for collection. Maybe it’s different here.

If you are in the Nation's Capital , then you don’t collect money until delivery (and your troop account isn’t charged until later, too). Other councils do it differently.

My daughters really like going in person to their teachers and neighbors to sell, so they do that, but other than that we stick to booths and the online option.

Please don't ask teachers. It is very awkward. They have to buy from each kid or none. My Mom would end up with 20 boxes in the freezer.

My kids’ teachers haven’t had any problem saying they already bought cookies, or that they will buy from the first student who asks them. Sometimes that is my kid, sometimes not.

Anonymous wrote:Thank heavens seeing girl scout cookies have been outlawed in many offices as we as hawking any crsp your child is selling!

They should be outlawed in shopping centers as well. Awful cookies at exhoribinant prices,!

Selling not seeing although seeing them is almost as bad as tasting them

Thank heavens seeing girl scout cookies have been outlawed in many offices as we as hawking any crsp your child is selling!

They should be outlawed in shopping centers as well. Awful cookies at exhoribinant prices,!

We are in a Central MD troop and were warned ahead of time that we had to pay at the time of cookie pickup, so we would have to either collect money during the initial order, or front the money ourselves. We’re new to GS, but it doesn’t seem crazy to collect money from people at the time that the cookies are ordered.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to clarify—you know you don’t collect money until delivery, right? That’s a major rule in cookie sales.

Our troop doesn’t have the funds not to. The slip comes with an envelope for collection. Maybe it’s different here.

If you are in the Nation's Capital , then you don’t collect money until delivery (and your troop account isn’t charged until later, too). Other councils do it differently.

My daughters really like going in person to their teachers and neighbors to sell, so they do that, but other than that we stick to booths and the online option.

Please don't ask teachers. It is very awkward. They have to buy from each kid or none. My Mom would end up with 20 boxes in the freezer.

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Anonymous wrote:We are part of Nations Capital and we have to pay before cookies are delivered (this does not include online sales)

Nope. I’ve been managing cookies for 10 years and that is absolutely not how it works. Maybe that’s how your troop cookie manager does things, but they are in violation of policy.

OMG, you are really the epitome of the cookie mom stereotype. Just stop.

New poster, not the person to whom you're replying. YOU should "just stop" with the idea of a negative "cookie mom stereotype." Those cookie parents (dads do it too) are incredibly important to helping troops earn funds to do activities all year long. And these volunteers get no pay but put in a lot of time to train to learn the rules that the PP understands but which you think are "OMG"-worthy. GS has those rules and roles so that troop monies are collected in transparent, documented and above-board ways. Sorry if financial transparency annoys you. If GS didn't do this, they'd get bashed for being lax and careless with money, yet when GS has procedures to follow, people like you whine about it. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

If you have had a kid in GS, did you ever think to thank the troop cookie manager? I'm betting not.

--Longtime troop leader who never had to double as cookie manager because our girls had parents who actually helped out. Have you?

I live in MD and don’t have a kid in Girl Scouts and maybe they’re doing it wrong but I definitely always pay before my cookies ever come. Sometimes that’s meant the cookies were never delivered and we were just out of the money. That’s why I try to only purchase from people I know unless I’m buying the cookies at a table.

We collect when the order is placed as well. One bad experience from a neighbor who ordered a dozen boxes and then was out of town for weeks changed the way I allow my daughter to sell. Sorry not sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:We are part of Nations Capital and we have to pay before cookies are delivered (this does not include online sales)

Nope. I’ve been managing cookies for 10 years and that is absolutely not how it works. Maybe that’s how your troop cookie manager does things, but they are in violation of policy.

OMG, you are really the epitome of the cookie mom stereotype. Just stop.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to clarify—you know you don’t collect money until delivery, right? That’s a major rule in cookie sales.

Our troop doesn’t have the funds not to. The slip comes with an envelope for collection. Maybe it’s different here.

The envelope is for when you deliver cookies. And your troop doesn’t front money for the cookies, the money is collected in batches through the cookie period. Sounds like your troop doesn’t know the rules. Upfront collection is a big no.

Our troop told us we should collect when we deliver but it's not a big deal if people want to pay ahead of time. IME, most people would rather pay up front so they don't forget.