Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 11:11     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
1. Those cookies taste disgusting and are made with low quality ingredients.

2. I dislike any sales push from parents onto extended relatives, friends and neighbors. It's exploiting the relationship for money.

3. The two times I have bought cookies - that no one ate - it was because a brave kid knocked on our door and actually talked to us about her cookies and why she was selling them. I felt bad enabling such a non-ethical system, but I couldn't help reward the children for being courageous.

Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 11:00     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
The life lessons I learned from Campfire Girls door to door selling were not the expected ones but it was still cultural indoctrination.

One of the things you learn early in life is whether your parents have money to cover things. Another thing you learn is whether your parents are well-liked.

To be honest, I learned a lot about parental popularity. This was in the 1970s. It's helpful to be popular if you need community support.

I'm glad my family has had decent economic success at work because my parents and me - we are keep-to-ourself types in social life. At one point when I was in high school, my mom sent in a $50 donation to my choir instead of me selling 10 ugly decorative candles around the neighborhood.

Even 40 years ago it was a lot of parent selling.

I gladly buy Girl Scout cookies from any parent that crosses my path. Usually there's only one a year.

I view it as awkward training for community social life. Nobody borrows a cup of sugar anymore.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 10:51     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Anonymous wrote:I won't buy from parents. The whole point is the kids do the work. I will buy from them, if they contact me directly or knock on my door.



Exactly. Otherwise what's the point of this exercise? I buy from every girl that knocks on my door and will buy at GS-staffed tables, but ignore OL parent solicitations.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 10:48     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


As the mom of your DD's troop mate, I don't think it's crazy. I don't know you and what your background is and you want to spend 2 hours alone with my child? Hell no.


How do you not know the parents of the other girls in your troop? It’s over kill for sitting in front of the grocery store in a public place.


Then you should take your child out of Girl Scouts. Try Boy Scouts, I heard they are far more lax about this stuff.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 10:46     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
No one is guilting you into buying cookies. Buy if you want, ignore if you don't. Nobody answers their doors anymore, by the way, door to door sales are useless.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 10:40     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Then don't.

👍🏻
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2024 11:41     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Plenty of people are nostalgic for girl scout cookies and don’t know any Girl Scouts. So the online or office break room sales work for them. If you don’t like or want any just say no thanks.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2024 11:39     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Anonymous wrote:
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.


As the mom of your DD's troop mate, I don't think it's crazy. I don't know you and what your background is and you want to spend 2 hours alone with my child? Hell no.


How do you not know the parents of the other girls in your troop? It’s over kill for sitting in front of the grocery store in a public place.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2024 11:14     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
I won't buy from parents. The whole point is the kids do the work. I will buy from them, if they contact me directly or knock on my door.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2024 11:13     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
I wish they'd push them at me.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2024 10:49     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
My Dad used to take my cookie order form to work and leave it in the coffee mess. Facebook is the same thing.

I buy a box from anyone child who asks me. Then I repeat buy from the ones I know. It’s a short time and then they are done w scouts. I don’t mind supporting it with $20 here and there.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2024 05:29     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Sad thing is GS stopped selling the BEST cookies....the ones with the Graham cracker, marshmallow & chocolate
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2024 22:13     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Knock on 1 door and call ahead! Wow things have changed. Back in my day, ( about 30 years ago) we were walking all around the neighborhood selling cookies. I just bought from my kids friend in person and she didn't even know anything about the selling even how to fill out the form!

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Girl Scout leader and strongly encourage my girls to do at least some door to door sales. I tell them it's a troop goal that everyone knocks on one door, but that it's okay if their parents call ahead of time so they know you're coming. I also make it a troop activity for each girl to write a general thank you note, so they can attach it to each in-person delivery order.

All of that to say, it's really up to the parents whether they want to encourage Larla to go knocking on doors. If mom and dad choose to blast their friends instead of walking around with their girl, then that's better than nothing. I very strongly encourage those families to participate in at least a few cookie booths, so the girl gets some experience. Ultimately cookie sales are both learning opportunities for the girls, but also the main fundraiser for the troop. Without cookie sales, we don't have the money for camping, field trips, badges, etc. The social media blasts don't give the girl the learning experience, but at least we meet our fundraising goals.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2024 16:00     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Where can I find out where booths will be in DC?


Scroll down to find cookies.
https://www.gscnc.org/en/cookies/girl-scout-cookies/find-cookies.html

Booth sales start February 2nd.


Thanks, when I googled could not seem to find this area.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2024 15:58     Subject: Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Sooooo do it the traditional way and take your kid around the neighborhood to sell to neighbors. I don't see what your problem is? You have choices.


We don't have boxes of cookies to sell. We take orders and then we order the cookies.

I WANT boxes of cookies to sell so that we can go door to door or sit at booths. I don't want my DD to go door to door "pre-selling" cookies and then she has to go around again to deliver. My troop isn't doing any cookie booths this year and wants to sell at our workplaces instead.

I just think it's the wrong message to girls about selling- just let your parents do it for you at their work.


It sounds like your leader is trying to minimize the risk to the troop by only ordering cookies that are confirmed and trying to minimize work for her by not doing booths. My guess is that no other family in the troop has stepped up to manage booths. If you're willing to be a cookie/booth manager talk to your leader - it's not too late to set up some booths.