twinsmomfla99
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Jan 20, 2023 13:04:43 GMT
I worked late last night and missed our first adorable Girl Scout sighting of the year when one of our neighbors stopped by with her cookie form. My unsupervised DH bought 5 boxes.
Five boxes, you say? That’s not so bad.
BUT I am known as the woman who buys from ALL the Girl Scouts in the neighborhood, and DH just set the standard at 5!😜 Apparently he was unaware of my cookie management plan of 2 boxes per scout. Um, we still have at least 7 more Girl Scouts of which I am aware LOL. That’s almost 1/3 of my cookie budget (both calories and $) on the first order!
Obviously I’m not buying 5 boxes from each now, or we would weigh 400 lbs each by Easter LOL. I did have to give DH a good-natured ribbing for upsetting my GS cookie inventory plan.
Do you have a cookie-purchase plan?
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Post by PenandInk on Jan 20, 2023 13:48:09 GMT
As a former Cookie Manager for my DD’s troops, I can tell you in all confidence that GS cookies freeze very well. I think you should purchase an extra freezer so you can support all your neighborhood Girl Scouts!!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 20, 2023 14:02:24 GMT
For us it’s really unpredictable how many scouts will come hit us up. There used to be a few in the general area but whether they would come to the house or not is hit or miss. Then someone on DH’s bowling team had a kid who was selling them, but that might not be the case anymore. Worst case scenario, they can usually be found at the grocery store on weekends selling from a table at the front of the store, or outside of Walmart. The bad part is that after DH brought home about six boxes from the guy at bowling last year, I went to put them away and found 4-5 boxes still in the cabinet from the previous year that we never ate. Whoops. I keep thinking one of these years I’m going to grind up a box or two to make cheesecake crust but then I never do.
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lindas
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Post by lindas on Jan 20, 2023 14:08:52 GMT
In all the years I’ve lived here I’ve never once seen scouts selling door to door. Makes managing my cookie purchases easy since the girls are always at the grocery stores and I can grab a box or two each week.
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Post by librarylady on Jan 20, 2023 14:11:13 GMT
No GS selling cookies here. I do place an order for several with my great niece who lives in another state. Her troop had online purchasing made available. If a person wants to do so, the cookies are donated to the local VA hospital and that is where my cookies go.
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scrappyesq
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Post by scrappyesq on Jan 20, 2023 14:15:50 GMT
Manage? Whatever do you mean?
The last few years I’ve had multiple sources. It’s for a good cause right?
I buy boxes from two coworkers. Usually 6 from each. Then ex-dh would buy 10+. Any time I see a cookie stand IRL I buy 4-5. Yes I am a greedy monster when it comes to cookies.
This year only one coworker is selling and ex-dh contacted me last week about my cookies this year. So I’m only down one source.
What I usually do is store them and rotate them based on expiration date. Usually by June/ July if I have a lot left I start bringing cookies to work. Now that I know they freeze well I’m going to freeze the overflow.
Writing this out makes me sound ridiculous. LMAO.
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anaterra
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Post by anaterra on Jan 20, 2023 14:24:05 GMT
We also buy 2 from everyone who asks... we live rural so they don't knock door to door... but from work and at the grocery store... i cant resist...
I also buy from every bake sale at the grocery store!!!
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scrappinmama
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Post by scrappinmama on Jan 20, 2023 14:28:15 GMT
In my husband's previous job, he had a co-worker with a girl scout and I also had one at my job. DH started a new job with no girl scout kid, so I started buying more boxes from my girl scout connection. This year I started a new job, but already committed to my old girl scout connection since I'm friends with the mom. Well now I have 2 new co-workers with a girl scout and one new neighbor. I bought one box from the new people. So now I have a total of 10 boxes coming.
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Post by cmpeter on Jan 20, 2023 14:46:39 GMT
When dd was a Scout our neighbor would buy 21 boxes from her. We always went door to door in our neighborhood. I haven’t had anyone come to our door since she left Scouts 10 years ago. We do buy from them at the grocery store.
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pinklady
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Post by pinklady on Jan 20, 2023 15:01:57 GMT
Buy the knockoffs at Aldi & Kroger for half off.
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Post by Jamie on Jan 20, 2023 15:10:25 GMT
Buy the knockoffs at Aldi & Kroger for half off. Yep, that's exactly what I do. Unfortunately one of my husbands friends has a daughter in scouts and he always ends up spending $100 through her in one big purchase
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Post by mom on Jan 20, 2023 15:15:09 GMT
We buy and freeze. Pull a box out every now and then. We also mail them to our son in Hawaii.
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snyder
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Post by snyder on Jan 20, 2023 15:24:50 GMT
I no longer purchase GS cookies. I'm retired so no co-workers to buy from and no door to door here and I refuse to go in Walmart being compromised and care taker of my 92 year old mother, so I miss the table sales. I do believe Kings and Safeway do not allow cookie selling in front of their stores. But, I don't miss it because the baker for our region sucks. I noticed quality going downhill for several years, but it was this one year when I went to eat a peanut butter one and the top and bottom were not connected. I was shocked to see that each of these cookies were put together with a dime size amount of peanut butter filing. I am not exagerating, it was the size and thickness of a dime. Okay, I got a box that obvioulsy had a machine problem. Next were the Thin Mints. As I was putting the cookie to my mouth, I notice I could see the cookie on the underside. The cookie was not entirely covered in chocolate. Examining them, each cookie was exposing at least 1/3 of the cookie. I thought, man, they are getting cheap, can't even cover the entire cookie any more. lol Well, I wrote the baker for our region and told them about the cookie mishaps and told them I would be embarrassed to produce less than stellar product for such a prominent organization. Maybe I offended them, but the reply I received back from them was we would never put out inferior product for the Girl Scouts. We have excellent quality control. Thank you, have a good day. No sorry you received a batch of cookies the obviously had some machine problems, or we really do strive to do a good job, sorry your box didn't meet our expectations. So with that, it defintiley has helped me not be tempted by the extra calories and carbs that I absolutely do not need.
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Post by calgaryscrapper on Jan 20, 2023 15:27:14 GMT
Maybe donate some to the local fire hall or nursing home
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iluvpink
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Post by iluvpink on Jan 20, 2023 15:48:14 GMT
I don't know that I've ever had anyone come to the door to sell GS cookies. Sometimes other items for school fundraisers, but never GS cookies. I've always bought them from stands or coworkers children (except a couple of years when dd was in Brownies). Never had to manage it, just bought what we wanted and that was it.
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Post by auntkelly on Jan 20, 2023 15:59:46 GMT
My husband and I buy one or two boxes from every GS selling at the grocery store. We put the boxes in the freezer at the lake house and pull them out when we have company during the summer (which is almost every weekend). GS cookies are always welcome on a hot day in the summer!
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Post by ntsf on Jan 20, 2023 16:35:23 GMT
you can go online ---find the local gs council and order online, a girl will contact you and tell you why she is selling this year.. and you get a package in mail
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Post by padresfan619 on Jan 20, 2023 16:37:04 GMT
There are no Girl Scouts in my neighborhood, if there are they don’t come to my door. I’m more likely to encounter the table sales outside of my local grocery store. I buy from my niece, she drops them at my house and I get a chance to see her in her cute uniform. Next year will be tough, her little sister will be old enough to sell cookies too so I’ll have to split my usual order between the two of them. I get get two boxes of thin mints, one trefoil, and one samoas.
I distinctly remember the first time I felt old, a mom that was in *my* Girl Scout troop reached out and asked if I wanted to buy from her daughter. She was my cookie source before my niece was old enough to sell cookies.
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tracylynn
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Post by tracylynn on Jan 20, 2023 16:45:30 GMT
Buy the knockoffs at Aldi & Kroger for half off. For me price isn't the point. It's about supporting a good cause. I used to work with a connection, now I don't. So I order from them online. I think I ordered 6 boxes last year, and they go straight to the freezer. I think I still have 3 boxes in the freezer from last year!! I'll order 6 more this year and be better about taking them out to eat/share more often.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Jan 20, 2023 17:24:55 GMT
We haven't had a girl guide come to our house in years. They just don't do that anymore here. We can find them at some of the grocery stores at cookie time, or an email may go out at work from someone who has kids selling them, otherwise we just don't get them anymore. And that sucks.
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janeinbama
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Post by janeinbama on Jan 20, 2023 17:29:05 GMT
I buy every time I see girls selling. I also buy fromamNy girls I know selling. This year it is one Scout and I bought a box of each, We don’t always like the new cooKIES, but these girls LOVE orders like that. When my dad was a scout , a coworker of mine would buy a case of Thin Mints every years!
Thin Mints from the freezer are the bomb👍
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Post by ntsf on Jan 20, 2023 18:40:58 GMT
there is such a great deal of learning from cookie sales.. and it can be a resume builder.. you have to ask, you have to deal with rejection and questions, you have to set goals and then you get to do amazing things with the money you earn.
and it is progressive, from being a little cute kid that people want to buy from.. to being an older girl, with bigger goals and ambitions. my own troop funded a lot of camping, trips to washington dc, and new zealand.. and funded higher award projects. there was nothing like wandering around dc in a large crowd of fellow gs, saying we paid our own way from california with cookie sales. my daughter got a first job, because she has sales experience and it showed her work ethic.
so I support the cause.. not just the cookies. Girl Scouts don't have a big deep pocket set of alumnae to support the non profit. and it is an accessible program for many girls.. you don't have to be rich or talented to participate.
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Post by workingclassdog on Jan 20, 2023 18:49:27 GMT
I don't buy enough to manage.. I usually just buy at the grocery store or sometimes some random co-worker or friend will have them. The most I have ever bought was probably five boxes.
DS who lives with me and my youngest was in the military for 7 years. Let me tell you, Girl Scouts or whoever buys them and send them overseas.. they are good to the military people. At least where my son was stationed. He ended up with cases of cookies very year. He can't even eat them anymore.. lol
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Post by librarylady on Jan 20, 2023 20:53:48 GMT
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The Birdhouse Lady
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Jan 20, 2023 21:07:03 GMT
How many boxes are in a case and how much are they this year?
Thin mints are what I am asking about.
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Post by maryannscraps on Jan 20, 2023 21:33:43 GMT
I buy 5-6 boxes from anyone who asks. DH’s partner’s granddaughter, my nail Tex’s daughter, the kids at Stop and Shop. I put them in the freezer. DH and DS will polish them off eventually. They don’t make the kind I like anymore - do-so-dos. I love supporting Girl Scouts.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jan 20, 2023 22:14:49 GMT
I usually buy two boxes only, from the first cookie booth I encounter.
I used to be a Girl Scout so I buy, to be supportive. To be honest, the price for the minimal quantity of cookies received....is high, and not cost effective for those with a smaller and tighter budget. A package of store bought cookies around the same price as the GS cookies, has 2 to 3 times the quantity.
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Post by Lexica on Jan 20, 2023 22:52:27 GMT
Oh, since I now live in a retirement community with no littles living on my street, I bet I won't get any scouts coming to my door. Darn it! I hope I see someone in front of a store. I can't give up my scout cookies!
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Post by alsomsknit on Jan 20, 2023 23:14:01 GMT
No plan. A coworker’s daughter is in GS. Bought a four boxes. DH will likely consume the majority of the cookies.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 20, 2023 23:17:35 GMT
Oh, since I now live in a retirement community with no littles living on my street, I bet I won't get any scouts coming to my door. Darn it! I hope I see someone in front of a store. I can't give up my scout cookies! You may get more with grandkids selling..
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