Who is selling girl scout cookies here?

[Sgt Mickey]

This is dd second year doing it. Last year I think we sold about 200ish but we came into cookie season late. SO saturday was our first selling day. She wants to see at least 400 for the bear I am hoping 1000 to get a bush gardens season passbut I don't see that happening.
SO how many have you sold? and where do you usually sell them

 

[NY Disney fan]

Can I buy cookies online? I'm dying to buy some!!!

 

[Sgt Mickey]

Can I buy cookies online? I'm dying to buy some!!!

Unfortantly not they do not allow internet sales or I would be all over selling BUT most troops do sell outside of walmarts and grocery stores in your local areas.

 

[HM]

Good luck to your daughter. If mine had come to me telling me she wanted to sell hundreds of boxes, I would have been very unhappy. Mine never sold more than 50 boxes and just dealing with those was plenty of work for us both. We never set up a goal for her, it was just what we could sell on our street and at my office and be happy with that. The troop always decided to keep the $ instead of the rewards, so that they could, as a group, use it to do some fun things.

 

[mom22belles]

Up here in Canada cookie season hasn't started yet. We will be ordrering our cookies in the next week or so. Deliver isn't until March or April.

We also have two cookie selling periods, Fall Mint cookie program just wrapped up in November. Our Spring cookies are vanilla and chocolate ( one row of each per box) .

We are also celebrating our 100 year anniversay this year. Is the US doing that too?

Nancy

 

[descovy]

I have 3 girls selling... Daisy, Brownie, Junior, and I am cookie mom for all 3 troops.

My two oldest sold a combined 225 last year as Daisy & Brownie (now Brownie & Junior)... of course family and friends split orders, but when they go door to door, they take turns.

Both my Brownie and Junior will participate in cookie booths. They all do go door to door, but we stay on our street and neighboring streets. We see more and more, folks will ask if we are "neighbors" , which leads me to believe people are leary about girls being "dropped off" in random neighborhoods just to sell more cookies. So we stay in walking distance.

Other than that, we send a poster to Dad's work... the girls make the poster and say on paper what they would say in person (split those orders through the girls) and call friends and family.

I am a firm believer that it stay a girl-led activity... so I don't do for the girls what they can do for themselves. For example, I will not stand at the bus stop and ask other moms to buy (one 3rd grade mom did that last year)

Or when our van was at the mechanic (emergency on my way home from a cookie cupboard) the mechanic had to drive me home and I had to load GS cookies in the truck. He asked can I buy some? (Mechanic we see often, btw ) instead of taking his order, I broght the girls with me to the shop when we got our van back. So they could take the orders, not me.

Our averages in the Brownie/ Junior troop look to be 100-120 cookies/girl. Daisies about 60-70/girl... which covers their troop activities year round (very little out of pocket by parents) Good enough for me! We have one girl in my Junior troop who sells 400+ her mom is a preschool receptionist. Girl makes a poster, and all the parents who drop off preschoolers have to go by mom's desk! Mom even orders extra Thin Mints and Carmel delights (Samoas) by the case and sells them directly at the desk... also seems to unload our "leftovers" by the end of March.

 

[descovy]

GSUSA birthday is March 12 1912... so coming up!

Up here in Canada cookie season hasn't started yet. We will be ordrering our cookies in the next week or so. Deliver isn't untill March or April.

We also have to cookie selling periods though or Fall Mint cookie program just wrapped up in November. Our Spring cookies are vanilla and chocolate ( one row of each per box) .

We are also celebrating our 100 year anniversay this year. Is the US doing that too?

GSUSA birthday is March 12 1912... so coming up!

Nancy

 

[mamamary]

Good luck to your daughter. If mine had come to me telling me she wanted to sell hundreds of boxes, I would have been very unhappy. Mine never sold more than 50 boxes and just dealing with those was plenty of work for us both. We never set up a goal for her, it was just what we could sell on our street and at my office and be happy with that. The troop always decided to keep the $ instead of the rewards, so that they could, as a group, use it to do some fun things.

Us too. I thought 50 was really good. Everyone sells them so it's hard to find who to sell to. DH hates to bug people at work. Most were happy to get them so I have to remember that his co-workers liked them. OUr troop is small so we don't go all out selling. We are a pretty much "pay as you go" troop. It's worked well for us.

 

[justcantwait]

This is my daughter's first year selling. She is obsessed with getting the stuffed panda! Sounds like you guys might have different incentives though. The panda is for selling 200-299 boxes. We just started on Friday, and she's already sold 68 boxes, so we're optimistic. We'll have to see how many boxes my parents and I have to buy to help her reach her goal! Good luck to all!

Kathy

 

[desamnik]

only to be told by all of them that the girl next door's mom had sent an email to the whole neighborhood and they bought their cookies from her.

The poor kid was heartbroken!

So, her dad brought the sheet to work today, hopefully he sells a few for her. She tried to do it the right way, but no luck.

 

[remark44]

I have 3 girls selling... Daisy, Brownie, Junior, and I am cookie mom for all 3 troops.

Wow! I'm cookie mom for just one troop and that's a lot to handle. I don't know how you do all three. I don't have a garage so the cookies get stored in my living room. My younger daughter has already opened two boxes without asking permission first. If she keeps this up, I'm going to be broke before the sales are over.

The girls in my troop (Juniors) have been selling for 5 years now. They love doing cookies booths, so we do a lot of those. We make enough money to pay for all of the activities for the rest of the year, including a camping trip. The parents love it because there are no out of pocket expenses for them.

Our sales don't officially start until Thursday. But the cookies are already in my living room. Can't wait until they start moving out.

 

[HM]

only to be told by all of them that the girl next door's mom had sent an email to the whole neighborhood and they bought their cookies from her.

The poor kid was heartbroken!

So, her dad brought the sheet to work today, hopefully he sells a few for her. She tried to do it the right way, but no luck.

Terrible. In both nieghborhoods we lived in while DD was a scout, we only did our own street (about 10 houses). There were other girl scouts/brownies who lived on other streets and I would never have had DD step on those little girls toes by selling there.

Your DD should just go to all the houses in your neighborhood anyway. Most of the moms I know tell me that they buy a box from any girl that comes their way. It's awfully hard to say no to those cute little girls. She may not get sales from everyone, but I bet some will buy more.

Also, talk to the other mom, and let her know what happened this year and how it made your DD feel. Offer to split up of the neighborhood next year so that they can both have sales from your neighbors.

One of my coworkers and I did something like that. We put out one form in our lounge at work. Once the deadline came, we split up the list and each of us took half the sales (or as close as we could come). We didn't have the girls come by and disrupt work by going office to office.

 

[skw444]

I've got a Daisy and I'm cookie mom! Last year, dd sold 185 boxes. Selling for us started December 21 but with the holidays and the really cold weather, we haven't done much selling yet. Our troop sets a goal of 60 boxes for each girl in the troop. So, far we've sold 49 boxes but I know we'll easily reach the goal of 60. She's trying for 100 boxes for the wristlet.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

Back in the day when both DH and I both worked and DD17 was a Girl Scout, we did sell over 1000 boxes. My advice to you is sell just as much as she can and buy the season pass yourself. Please trust me, the work involved and the aggravation does NOT have a price that can be paid.

 

[descovy]

I gather that different areas sell the cookies differently. Here in the Houston area, we started taking orders 1/9. This first big order is sent to ABC bakers Jan 25. Cookies come to town Feb 12. That day, I have like 2000 boxes of cookies in the house, but everyone picks up what they ordered and I am left with some extra for cookie booths or other "orphaned" cookies. If I need more during the sale I go to a cookie cuppboard (a saint who agrees to stack cookies floor to ceiling in their home for 2 mos) and order a case at a time.

So for me, I have a day or two when cookies are *everywhere* Then I store a few cases for cookie booth, etc... in my office. Not too bad.

I find that cookie mom-ing several troops isn't too bad. (the way it is done in Houston) I am already doing the work (planning a cookie meeting, gathering orders, etc...) for one, the extra numbers not so bad. Best of all, I don't have to run around town trading cookie flavors with other troops... I can transfer a couple of boxes from Daisies to Juniors in my home office.

Now what you are doing... holding cookies in your household for the whole season... no way I could do that for 3 troops!

Wow! I'm cookie mom for just one troop and that's a lot to handle. I don't know how you do all three. I don't have a garage so the cookies get stored in my living room. My younger daughter has already opened two boxes without asking permission first. If she keeps this up, I'm going to be broke before the sales are over.

The girls in my troop (Juniors) have been selling for 5 years now. They love doing cookies booths, so we do a lot of those. We make enough money to pay for all of the activities for the rest of the year, including a camping trip. The parents love it because there are no out of pocket expenses for them.

Our sales don't officially start until Thursday. But the cookies are already in my living room. Can't wait until they start moving out.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

Our Sale starts on 1/23 so dd is gearing up. This is our fourth year selling cookies. Last year she sold 350 boxes.

Our troop goal is 173 boxes per girl to pay for an overnight to Sea World in San Diego. DD will have no problem with that but I can say as cookie mom/leader that over half of our troop will. But we can fix that with booth sales.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I never have to sell cookies again. Good Luck to all the girls & their goals!

 

[kirbydog48]

I'm happy to make a donation to the GS, but the ingredients in the cookies are very unhealthy. High fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated fats, palm oil, cottonseed oil are ingredients that I will not buy. I would pay more for a box of cookies that had better ingredients, and the girls would be selling a superior product.

 

[mickeyboat]

I find the people who sell the most cookies have parents with large workplaces.

Lsst year my girls sold about 80 boxes each with pre-orders and quite a few more with cookie booths - we do VERY well at our cookie booths.

We are at about 35 each right now. People just don't buy lots and lots of boxes of cookies anymore. My girls aren't big on the incentives as they understand that I would rather buy crap at the dollar store than have them kill themselves (and me) selling and buying cookies.

Good luck to everyone!

 

[Sgt Mickey]

We are also celebrating our 100 year anniversay this year. Is the US doing that too?

Nancy

not that I know of.