Anonymous wrote:I almost started a thread on this. WHY are girls being told to push cookies this way?! This is our initial push. We take preliminary orders and then order those cookies. We're dual feds and selling at work is against ethics. They even send a yearly email about it.

Why can't they just give girls boxes of cookies and then they can have stands at stores/metro stations/neighborhood entrances? Parents shouldn't be doing the work for them.

I also think it's crazy that I need a background check to sit with my dd at a cookie booth.

Which is it, there are no cookie booths or you think it's crazy to screen the adult volunteers at the cookie booths? Btw, you need a background check to sit with the other girls, not with your own.

I almost started a thread on this. WHY are girls being told to push cookies this way?! This is our initial push. We take preliminary orders and then order those cookies. We're dual feds and selling at work is against ethics. They even send a yearly email about it.

Why can't they just give girls boxes of cookies and then they can have stands at stores/metro stations/neighborhood entrances? Parents shouldn't be doing the work for them.

I also think it's crazy that I need a background check to sit with my dd at a cookie booth.

Find me one!!! I need some somoas

Anonymous wrote:What does it teach your child if most of their boxes are sold through your own social media push? Guilting colleagues and friends into buying multiple highly processed cookies that last only 6 months. What happened to door-to-door sales? Kudos to the parents who encourage old school ways of selling the cookies and don't post links and sales on their Facebook pages. "Look how many boxes Larla sold!" but it was really just her mother selling them to her friends!

You sound jealous of 10 year olds and their moms, OP. That's really sad.

Anyway, I LOVE it when my neighbor emails the neighborhood with the link to buy cookies from her daughter. It's so easy and then they appear on my doorstep a few days later.

In fact, you have inspired me to reach out right now and ask her when they are starting sales!

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Anonymous wrote:GS guides kids to make their own online advertisement and yes, it gets sent to parent friends. Just don’t respond. The GS donate tons of boxes. Each troop picks a group to which they donate. The military, firefighters, hospital ERs, whichever.
The troop earns money from the sales to fund their activities, which include many cool things that girls could not otherwise afford. GS also have related badges concerning business and being an entrepreneur that relate to cookie sales, all of which is valuable to kids. Many kids sell cookies to earn money for summer camp.

If you don’t want them, just say no, and move on. It’s a good organization that provides leadership opportunities for girls and civic education.

There are so many other things to whine about.

How is mommy selling your cookies for you teaching them about leadership?

NP. You understand that cookie sales is a small part of scouting, and it is primarily meant to be a fundraiser, right? These are children. Some work independently, some work with friends, some also have the support of their parents. It's fine.

Anonymous wrote:Personally I find door-to-door sales more “guilting” than an email or social media post that I can easily ignore.

I quit Girl Scouts mainly because of being forced to knock on strangers' doors to pester them to buy cookies. I can still feel the mortification.

I only buy from girls who sell in person. I never buy from parents. No guilt.

Samoa and tagalong. Yes byatch!!!

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW - we do most of our sales at booths. I post on social just once so that anyone far away can order if they want to. If you get an email, it's probably because GS is sending it - not the scout's parents. This is totally something you can just let go. But or don't buy.

This. I emailed once and the site spams folx. I make one post online and sometimes friend’s share them. Kid still goes door to door and attends booths. Many people prefer to order online though.

Door to door sales don't work - nobody answers the door anymore (including me) and it's dark at 5 this time of year.
But, I'm also opting out of digital sales this year because the website bombards my email contacts with multiple messages that I have no control over. And the digital platform is not really something DD10 can manage herself anyway, as she doesn't have an email address.

So, just booth sales for us.

Anonymous wrote:They taste awful. I'm not eating that crap just to please someone else, and I'm not wasting my money either.

This. Nobody wants these cheap, unhealthy junkie cookies! Can someone save us from them, please! Every year we have to go through this crap. At work, moms pushing cookies, by stores- kids standing trying to sell them, family members trying to sell them to you. I'm just so sick of it. I want to eat healthy, I don't want to waste my money on this junk.

Anonymous wrote:Personally I find door-to-door sales more “guilting” than an email or social media post that I can easily ignore.

I thought door to door was discouraged because of predators.

I don't like it when coworkers post on fb and ask around at company for donation to their kids going to disney ticket/hotel/air flights etc for a dance performance. Just pure dollar donation or paypal or other app. It feels awkward if they come to my office directly to ask me for donation. They always say any little money count, but my kids have not gone to disney yet. I always have difficulty to say no.

Once, I said no to a private school ticket fundraising, the coworker yelled at me saying that she would see when my kid got to school age kid. I was in shock. She complained to supervisor that I had upset her and not paying $10 for her son's private school fundraising ticket. I did not have anything to say. If you could send your kid to private school since pre-k to high school, you are rich. My kids go to public school, and I will nevet pass those brochure around to sell cookie, cookware, fundraising etc. I will just donate on my own if my school asks for it.

FWIW, I was relieved when my kid decided to quit GS, because it was not my cup of tea.

That said, cookie sales were a great experience for my shy daughter. I refused to do digital sales, but she did a ton door to door. The girls had a lot of fun doing booths, and agree with PP that learning how to handle “no thanks” is an important part of it.