Who is selling girl scout cookies here?

[minnie1012]

This is my daughter's first year so I have no idea about any of this. I'm so clueless on what to do!!! I volunteered to be cookie mom. I felt bad that no one did so I was like ok I'll do it. I have a meeting on Thursday which I hope tells me how to go about all of this.

As far as selling there are 7 other girl scouts that I know of on our street, my husband isn't allowed to sell at work and I'm unemployed at the moment. Not sure where we will sell? Now I have to find a store that will let us do a booth sale (the Walmart in town isn't allowing it this year). I think my troop leader said there are like 120 troops in town that I have to compete with to get a store for booth sales. I was like oh boy, sounds like fun!

Any words of wisdom or cookie mom sale tips??

 

[LisaNJ25]

I have 2 daughters selling this year and I am the cookie mom for 3 troops.. I dont know how it is going to go this year

 

[LisaNJ25]

This is my daughter's first year so I have no idea about any of this. I'm so clueless on what to do!!! I volunteered to be cookie mom. I felt bad that no one did so I was like ok I'll do it. I have a meeting on Thursday which I hope tells me how to go about all of this.

As far as selling there are 7 other girl scouts that I know of on our street, my husband isn't allowed to sell at work and I'm unemployed at the moment. Not sure where we will sell? Now I have to find a store that will let us do a booth sale (the Walmart in town isn't allowing it this year). I think my troop leader said there are like 120 troops in town that I have to compete with to get a store for booth sales. I was like oh boy, sounds like fun!

Any words of wisdom or cookie mom sale tips??

start calling now for a location. I had mine booked 6 weeks ago. We only have a 3 weeks period to have a booth sales and I know the local grocery stores are all booked already.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

We had our church's permission to have booth sales after our masses (Catholic school troop). So we only ordered about 6 or 7 extra cases. It was a really great idea considering our booth sale was right before Thanksgiving. It would have been even greater if the priest hadn't cancelled the sale the day before we picked up our non-returnable cookies.

It worked out okay because 4 of us parents just brought cases to work and sold the extra. Good thing for parents!!

 

[mickeyboat]

We have booth sales at our local grocery stores and at our local college.

 

[minnie1012]

start calling now for a location. I had mine booked 6 weeks ago. We only have a 3 weeks period to have a booth sales and I know the local grocery stores are all booked already.

Thanks. what span of time do you book for, an hour? more?

 

[Mrs.Toad]

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.

Also, to the person who asked, you can call your local GS Council and ask to be put in touch with a troop in your area, if no one comes knocking at your door. In our area (Colorado), they take orders until Jan 24, then booth sales (outside grocery stores) are from early February to early March. The council office should also be able to tell you what days/times the girls will be in front of which stores (when it gets closer to that time).

We live in a very family-oriented area. 8 Girl Scout on my cul-de-sac alone, and tons more in the neighborhood. Unless a Girl Scout spends a LOT of time knocking on doors, or has a parent in a workplace with lots of buyers, it's very hard to sell more than 60-80 boxes.

I think the incentives really stink this year, too. A certificate for selling 1-35 boxes, and a patch for 36-64? Seriously, what kid wants a certificate? And everyone used to get a patch, now you need to hit 36 boxes for it?! The bandanna at 65 is kind of cute, though.

 

[skw444]

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

Yes, it's a 3 year celebration starting this year on April 10 every year.

Each year of the Centenary, WAGGGS wants you to celebrate 100 years of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting on the 100th day of the year – April 10th. Your celebration should focus on the theme for the year:

2010 Plant – introduce
2011 Grow – expand
2012 Share – pass on

I haven't heard yet what our Service Unit specifically will be doing this year.

 

[Sgt Mickey]

This is my daughter's first year so I have no idea about any of this. I'm so clueless on what to do!!! I volunteered to be cookie mom. I felt bad that no one did so I was like ok I'll do it. I have a meeting on Thursday which I hope tells me how to go about all of this.

As far as selling there are 7 other girl scouts that I know of on our street, my husband isn't allowed to sell at work and I'm unemployed at the moment. Not sure where we will sell? Now I have to find a store that will let us do a booth sale (the Walmart in town isn't allowing it this year). I think my troop leader said there are like 120 troops in town that I have to compete with to get a store for booth sales. I was like oh boy, sounds like fun!

Any words of wisdom or cookie mom sale tips??

yikes to all of it

 

[descovy]

See, Mrs.Toad, you'd like Houston. Our theme this year is "Leap to Lead, and all the incentives are frogs! We get a froggie patch for selling 1-49 and then the incentives go up from there...

Also, to the person who asked, you can call your local GS Council and ask to be put in touch with a troop in your area, if no one comes knocking at your door. In our area (Colorado), they take orders until Jan 24, then booth sales (outside grocery stores) are from early February to early March. The council office should also be able to tell you what days/times the girls will be in front of which stores (when it gets closer to that time).

We live in a very family-oriented area. 8 Girl Scout on my cul-de-sac alone, and tons more in the neighborhood. Unless a Girl Scout spends a LOT of time knocking on doors, or has a parent in a workplace with lots of buyers, it's very hard to sell more than 60-80 boxes.

I think the incentives really stink this year, too. A certificate for selling 1-35 boxes, and a patch for 36-64? Seriously, what kid wants a certificate? And everyone used to get a patch, now you need to hit 36 boxes for it?! The bandanna at 65 is kind of cute, though.

 

[Sgt Mickey]

Also, to the person who asked, you can call your local GS Council and ask to be put in touch with a troop in your area, if no one comes knocking at your door. In our area (Colorado), they take orders until Jan 24, then booth sales (outside grocery stores) are from early February to early March. The council office should also be able to tell you what days/times the girls will be in front of which stores (when it gets closer to that time).

We live in a very family-oriented area. 8 Girl Scout on my cul-de-sac alone, and tons more in the neighborhood. Unless a Girl Scout spends a LOT of time knocking on doors, or has a parent in a workplace with lots of buyers, it's very hard to sell more than 60-80 boxes.

I think the incentives really stink this year, too. A certificate for selling 1-35 boxes, and a patch for 36-64? Seriously, what kid wants a certificate? And everyone used to get a patch, now you need to hit 36 boxes for it?! The bandanna at 65 is kind of cute, though.

You have to sell 125 to get the bandanna here.

 

[skw444]

I think the incentives really stink this year, too. A certificate for selling 1-35 boxes, and a patch for 36-64? Seriously, what kid wants a certificate? And everyone used to get a patch, now you need to hit 36 boxes for it?! The bandanna at 65 is kind of cute, though.

I didn't realize the incentives were different for different areas. Anything less then 36 boxes get you nothing here. 36 boxes gets a patch, 60 boxes gets another patch and panda book clip, 100 boxes gets a wristlet.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

Booth sales in our area are all arranged by council. They are all listed on the same website we use to enter our orders, and we go sign up for whatever is open. We don't call the stores ourselves, unless we want to sell in a location that they don't usually use. Then we have to get store manager approval, then Council approval.

Our booth sales are typically three or four hours long. We assign the girls shifts of 1-1.5 hours at a time, though.

 

[Towncrier]

When my daughter was in GS, I always bought all the leftover cookies at the end of the sale. The credit went to the troop and not my daughter. We weren't in it to win any prizes.

It didn't take me long to find homes for all of those cookies a couple of months after the sales were over. You would be surprised at just how many people needed "one more box" once the selling frenzy had passed.

Good luck to all the cookie moms (and dad) at to all the Girl Scouts who are trying to earn money for their troops.

Can Boy Scout popcorn season be that far away???

 

[Sgt Mickey]

I didn't realize the incentives were different for different areas. Anything less then 36 boxes get you nothing here. 36 boxes gets a patch, 60 boxes gets another patch and panda book clip, 100 boxes gets a wristlet.

75-174 participation patch to get anything else it is the bandana at 125 a pen at 175 and a journal at 200. WOW they make you work for it here, huh

 

[Mrs.Toad]

I didn't realize the incentives were different for different areas. Anything less then 36 boxes get you nothing here. 36 boxes gets a patch, 60 boxes gets another patch and panda book clip, 100 boxes gets a wristlet.

Wow! I didn't realize it was different in different places, either! Our girls get a tie dye bandanna for 65-119 boxes, 120-174 gets a choice of a pewter panda or a doodle frame or $10 in "cookie credits" that they can use to pay for camp or other events, they do get better from there (mostly panda-themed), but it's so hard for them to get that high in an area so innundated with scouts.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

Our incentives are much lower here. 12 boxes and you get a participation patch, the tie dye bandana at 40, and so on.

 

[suzannen]

I never knew until today that the cost of the cookies depends on the state. I have one co-worker from New York selling boxes for her niece at $3,50 a box, while another co-worker from New Jersey selling them for her daughter has to charge $4 a box. I was told Connecticut is $4 also.

That got me curious - how much are they in your area?

PS - I'm buying from both girls.

 

[mamamary]

I never knew until today that the cost of the cookies depends on the state. I have one co-worker from New York selling boxes for her niece at $3,50 a box, while another co-worker from New Jersey selling them for her daughter has to charge $4 a box. I was told Connecticut is $4 also.

That got me curious - how much are they in your area?

PS - I'm buying from both girls.

$3.50 is what my dd sold them for in the fall

 

[descovy]

We're $3.50 a box in Houston. They did warn us in training that they were going to "re-evaluate" the price for next year, as the cost has stayed the same for several years.

In Feb 2000 I was pregnant and bought a box of thin mints from every girl scout I met... they were $2/box!