Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 5 skills the girls in the cookie program learn are:
Goal Setting
Decision Making
Money Management
People Skills
Business Ethics

Definitely MLM in the making.

Brownie mom here. These are life skills, not just MLM. I hate the online thing this year for the reason that someone else mentioned, it means my daughter had to do no work. I put the online link on social media, sent it to the grandparents, aunts, and uncles and that was it. There was a hard push including an extra patch if you did online sales but I think next year we will only do in-person. Our troop leaders are very chill about sales generally, so the pressure was self-generated by my DD.

PPs are right, there are fewer cookies per box, no different than how sizes have gone down on most packaged goods at the grocery store.

Haha. I think the PP was sarcasming.
If you get a little brownie recruiting her little brother and his friends to do the work "so bobby, you just give me your allowance, and I'll give you these cookies and you'll make all your money back, plus $100k and you get to eat the product too and it's delicious" --then you should worry about pyramid schemes.

I was.

PP here, hadn't had enough coffee to be sure. I do agree with the complaints about the less cookies per box and the online piece. The girls get none of those skills if parents are doing it all on the computer.

Back to my thin mints, which btw are quite good dunked in coffee.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 5 skills the girls in the cookie program learn are:
Goal Setting
Decision Making
Money Management
People Skills
Business Ethics

Definitely MLM in the making.

Brownie mom here. These are life skills, not just MLM. I hate the online thing this year for the reason that someone else mentioned, it means my daughter had to do no work. I put the online link on social media, sent it to the grandparents, aunts, and uncles and that was it. There was a hard push including an extra patch if you did online sales but I think next year we will only do in-person. Our troop leaders are very chill about sales generally, so the pressure was self-generated by my DD.

PPs are right, there are fewer cookies per box, no different than how sizes have gone down on most packaged goods at the grocery store.

Haha. I think the PP was sarcasming.
If you get a little brownie recruiting her little brother and his friends to do the work "so bobby, you just give me your allowance, and I'll give you these cookies and you'll make all your money back, plus $100k and you get to eat the product too and it's delicious" --then you should worry about pyramid schemes.

I was.

Anonymous wrote:Of course they are, and not just for that reason.

The cookies taste bad, because they're not made with great ingredients (pure butter, please).
And girls are pressured by certain troupes and parents to sell those awful things.
Parents then annoy everyone in their circle by trying to make sales.

It's really sexist to expect girls to sell COOKIES when boy scouts aren't tied to that tradition.

Um...

The boys sell popcorn.

You are looking for outrage where there is none.

The outrage ia in the hobbit sized cookies, not manufactured sexism.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 5 skills the girls in the cookie program learn are:
Goal Setting
Decision Making
Money Management
People Skills
Business Ethics

Definitely MLM in the making.

Brownie mom here. These are life skills, not just MLM. I hate the online thing this year for the reason that someone else mentioned, it means my daughter had to do no work. I put the online link on social media, sent it to the grandparents, aunts, and uncles and that was it. There was a hard push including an extra patch if you did online sales but I think next year we will only do in-person. Our troop leaders are very chill about sales generally, so the pressure was self-generated by my DD.

PPs are right, there are fewer cookies per box, no different than how sizes have gone down on most packaged goods at the grocery store.

Haha. I think the PP was sarcasming.
If you get a little brownie recruiting her little brother and his friends to do the work "so bobby, you just give me your allowance, and I'll give you these cookies and you'll make all your money back, plus $100k and you get to eat the product too and it's delicious" --then you should worry about pyramid schemes.

Anonymous wrote:The 5 skills the girls in the cookie program learn are:
Goal Setting
Decision Making
Money Management
People Skills
Business Ethics

Definitely MLM in the making.

Brownie mom here. These are life skills, not just MLM. I hate the online thing this year for the reason that someone else mentioned, it means my daughter had to do no work. I put the online link on social media, sent it to the grandparents, aunts, and uncles and that was it. There was a hard push including an extra patch if you did online sales but I think next year we will only do in-person. Our troop leaders are very chill about sales generally, so the pressure was self-generated by my DD.

PPs are right, there are fewer cookies per box, no different than how sizes have gone down on most packaged goods at the grocery store.

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Anonymous wrote:Still better than paying $15 for a single bag of popcorn from the boy scouts!

They're both for fundraising so you have to buy them with that in mind!

No you don’t. I just write a check to the troop for the amount I would have purchased. That way they get the entire amount.

Actually it doesn’t work that way. It shows as a cookie donation so the troop doesn’t get to keep all of the money

The 5 skills the girls in the cookie program learn are:
Goal Setting
Decision Making
Money Management
People Skills
Business Ethics

Definitely MLM in the making.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aldi sells Girl Scout cookies for less than a dollar a box.

+ 1000 aldi Girl Scout cookies are amazing. Give the Girl Scout 10 dollars and get the same or better/fresher cookies at aldi

+1. I did a blind taste test with friends and they couldn't tell the difference.

Anonymous wrote:Still better than paying $15 for a single bag of popcorn from the boy scouts!

They're both for fundraising so you have to buy them with that in mind!

And the popcorn was AWFUL.

Becsus this bodes all cost the same (except for the gluten free and the s’mores), the ones that are more expensive to bake have fewer cookies per box.

And to respond to PP about the 50 cents, that’s incorrect. Cookies and packaging cost $1. Of the remaining $3, $.70 goes to the individual troop. The other $2.30 is split between the Council (which, in this area, covers the great DC area) and the Service Unit (which usually covers a couple schools). The Service Unit uses the money to subsidize things like camping trips and the Council uses it for scholarships, to maintain the many GS camps, and for stuff like the program kits (eg, telescopes that can be checked out by troops for stargazing programs, etc.)

It’s not like MLM because it’s not a pyramid scheme. As far as fundraisers go, I find it less bothersome than the overpriced Boy Scout popcorn, the wrapping paper stuff, and the fancy balls that charities throw were they spend as much as they take in so that people can go someplace in formal wear “for a good cause.” But that’s just me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course they are, and not just for that reason.

The cookies taste bad, because they're not made with great ingredients (pure butter, please).
And girls are pressured by certain troupes and parents to sell those awful things.
Parents then annoy everyone in their circle by trying to make sales.

It's really sexist to expect girls to sell COOKIES when boy scouts aren't tied to that tradition.

BS sell popcorn so it’s not like they aren’t hawking food products.

Selling by itself isn't bad as long as the kids are doing the work, not the parents (have you received their emails with link to buy cookies online? No work done by the child AT ALL!).
But it's the outdated cookie thing that is really offensive. Remember when Hillary Clinton had to tell everyone she baked cookies - as if - just to sound normal and matronly?
There is a certain aura of putting women in their place. I don't like it.

I pulled my DD out of Girl Scouts because of the cookie culture. It’s basically a training ground for MLMs. No thanks.

The cookies are Keebler. So you can give the girls a $5, and buy two boxes of Keebler and you all make out ahead.

Anonymous wrote:Which kind were the ones with more plastic container? I just ate several boxes this week and didn't notice. I did notice I gained 5 lbs.

Tagalongs. I still have one box of each to open!

How can Aldi sell girl scout cookies? Are they legit?

Anonymous wrote:The Aldi version of Samoas changed my life.

Yep, all that sugar and fat will certainly change your life.