bethany102399
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Post by bethany102399 on Jan 6, 2016 18:00:17 GMT
I found this funny. The hounds were released Jan 1. I have hope that we'll actually do a booth this year and my kid will actually sell a box of cookies rather than me making the ask of everyone I work with.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Jan 6, 2016 18:11:12 GMT
Our troop decided to just do booth sales. Last year though, Alison was 12, and she did all of the selling. My only sale was to my boss who asked for a bunch of each flavor.
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Post by *sprout* on Jan 6, 2016 18:13:39 GMT
Lol! We start selling on Monday.
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Post by anonrefugee on Jan 6, 2016 18:16:40 GMT
Cute, thanks for reminder, I texted friend to remind her DD to call me. We are buyers not sellers .
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Post by ntsf on Jan 6, 2016 18:25:15 GMT
we just did booth sales all 13 yrs of GS. in 1st grade, my kids did well for 15 minutes and 90 minutes respectively. short time, practice change, practice asking. every year, their skills improved and we did more booths. learned how important it was to have a goal..know what that goal is and then learned how to deal with rejections and objections...I remembering people who used to complain about the transfat 20 yrs ago..when no one else knew what it was. by the time they were seniors in high school. they sold every day after school, all day weekends, had goals and quit the minute they reached the goal. they hated selling cookies at that point, but they were good at it!!! asked everyone to buy, smiled when tired, did not give up and really spent that money carefully.
12 yrs of sales went on their resume...and it was helpful in job searches. it can be a pain for the parents (we never could sell at dh's work...we couldn't even go to the parking lot). so it was on their own. I found the learning part of it was really really good. they funded a week long car camping trip, a 2 week trip to New Zealand, and a trip to washington dc for a big GS singalong.
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Post by mrssmith on Jan 6, 2016 18:30:30 GMT
How timely. I am just prepping to talk to my Brownie troop about sales. The girls are 7-8 years old. We are doing individual and booths. I was going to stick to individual but some parents really wanted to do booths as well (they will be coordinating that).
Any tips? I am a little nervous since I am a brand new troop leader with girls/parents who are new to GS.
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Post by lumo on Jan 6, 2016 18:33:35 GMT
We got all our cookie info this past Monday...DD's first year seeking (we joined after sales last year). She's excited...me, not as much
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Post by pierkiss on Jan 6, 2016 18:45:17 GMT
Uggggh. This is our 1st year in daisys and we are starting I think the 15th. I was beyond dismayed to find out that *we* have to buy the cookies first and are stuck with them if they don't sell. Hoping that we can sell all that we ordered, but if not we at least made sure to only order the ones we'd be happy to have a ton of!
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Post by holly on Jan 6, 2016 18:48:54 GMT
Good luck everyone. We don't start until Feb, booth sales in late March. This is our 8th year selling. My DD is a freshman in HS. For the past 3 years she's sold just over 1000 boxes. I think her goal is about the same this year. She doesn't want to sell during Spring Break this year though so that may cost a few sales.
Our council has the scholarship program where at 7th grade they they start accumulating money towards scholarships. They have to sell at least1500 boxes between 7-12 grades and they earn .50 per box. There is no limit. The kicker is they have to sell at least one box per year during that time (once they reach that goal) to stay eligible to receive the scholarship. My DD sees that as free money and doesn't understand why her troop mates don't set higher goals to get free money!
I dread cookie season. Luckily it's only once a year and I only have a few years left. I'm all about booth sales, I hate bugging the same family and friends year after year, I'd rather beg strangers, lol
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bethany102399
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Post by bethany102399 on Jan 6, 2016 18:55:09 GMT
Our troop last year had 4 girls. Our leader was a seasoned cookie mom and didn't want "the hassle of a booth". We talked her into one booth, then we had crap weather on the day we were supposed to do it. I'm happy to sell to family, and honestly don't mind making the ask of people at work as I've been here long enough that most people know my kid, or had kids in scouts in the past and have BTDT. But I really dislike her not having ANY outlet to sell. They do all this work around setting a goal, but with no other outlet it falls on me and DH to help her meet it. I paid more to ship cookies to family out of state last year than they did in cookies. I was beyond dismayed to find out that *we* have to buy the cookies first and are stuck with them if they don't sell I ran into this last year with DD. We were able to do a booth at our church, but had to take on the financial responsibility for the inventory. Frankly, I'm not in a position where I can do that on a large scale. Thankfully, we took the inventory the troop had bought for the booth, and sold it so there was no big commitment. I get why it's safer for the troop and the council, but it makes it hard as a parent. This year, her troop merged with a larger one, Some of the girls parents buy cookies by the CASE and sell year round. I'm hopeful she can set a realistic goal and have a big part in meeting it.
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bethany102399
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Post by bethany102399 on Jan 6, 2016 18:56:06 GMT
Our council has the scholarship program where at 7th grade they they start accumulating money towards scholarships. Wow, I will have to look into this. That would make it worth doing.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jan 6, 2016 19:04:31 GMT
This is the first year in 11 years we aren't selling cookies (back in the day, Daisies didn't sell.). I'm thrilled. DD is a junior and her troop just stinks. Her leader does nothing and I'm not sure her Gold Award is going to happen.
We had the worst booth sales in the past few years. Our council does a lottery and you aren't allowed to sell anywhere else. The lucky ones get Walmart at 10 am on a Saturday. We always got the commuter lot at 6 pm on a rainy night in the dark, the sub shop at a strip mall with no other foot traffic, a storage facility... We finally gave up this year.
To be that young, naive Brownie again!
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Post by ntsf on Jan 6, 2016 19:07:43 GMT
ask every person at a booth. smile. say thank you if they say no. I think booths are easier..and if you sign up for several...then one bad weather day won't hurt. keep times appropriate for age...1-1.5 hours for brownies. count money and boxes into a sale and out of a sale..but if you are off 1 or 2 bucks, don't sweat it. signs at booths are good. sell in front of hardware stores on saturdays...
all councils run their own sales..so incentives can be different by council.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jan 6, 2016 19:56:26 GMT
Everyone I work with is too young to have elementary school aged girls. I wish someone did so I had someone to buy from! I will have to seek out a booth to buy my thin mints from this year.
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peppermintpatty
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Post by peppermintpatty on Jan 6, 2016 20:02:03 GMT
My dd is an ambassador. She stopped selling a couple years ago because she hated doing it in the winter. I have completely stopped buying them because they are smaller, fewer in the box and just not worth the money. The girls get so little for all that work.
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Post by hosschick on Jan 6, 2016 20:06:10 GMT
I spent years as a cookie mom in some high volume troops and could not be more relieved to be out of the chaos! Best of luck to the families involved! I'll be getting my fix from whatever booth I stumble across (rural area so they're few & far between). Any new varieties this year?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2016 20:21:22 GMT
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bethany102399
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Post by bethany102399 on Jan 6, 2016 21:53:37 GMT
hosschick, my DD would be happy to sell you some! lol The only new variety that I'm familiar with is the gluten free, which her troop didn't carry last year, but did do this year. Otherwise, it's thin mints and Samoas all the way!
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RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Jan 6, 2016 22:22:48 GMT
I'm so glad DD isn't in GS this year! Totally hated cookie time...her troop never wanted to do booths, and there were so many scouts in our neighborhood that door-to-door didn't work, DH usually wasn't working in a traditional office, and I don't work - so we had a hard, hard time. Also, we were in a council where you had to buy the cookies first, so we'd have boxes of cookies sitting around, and DS has a sugar sneaking problem. We'd always end up "eating it" on a bunch of boxes because of that. And then last year, some cleaning people we had actually took the envelope with what little money we HAD earned. I ended up out of pocket over $100, when all I had gotten from it personally was one single box of thin mints. Oh, and for 2 years in a row our troop treasurer screwed up on getting the bank accounts done, so our troop lost out on the bonus cookie profits. (In our council, each troop gets about 40 cents per box, and if you get your annual bank account info in on time, it's essentially doubled. We ended up as a troop only making the 40 cents.) I swore after last year that if DD stayed in GS that I was just going to write a donation to the troop - it would have cost me less AND the troop would have benefited more.
Did I mention how glad I am not to deal with this again???
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MizIndependent
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Post by MizIndependent on Jan 6, 2016 22:25:51 GMT
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Post by holly on Jan 9, 2016 19:39:48 GMT
I'm in WA and our council won't let us sell in front of pot stores. We can't sell in front of liquor stores or bars either.
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Post by lumo on Jan 9, 2016 20:42:31 GMT
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scrapngranny
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Post by scrapngranny on Jan 9, 2016 20:46:11 GMT
My granddaughter called this morning and I ordered my boxes
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Post by threegirls on Jan 9, 2016 21:09:22 GMT
Why oh why do the Girl Scouts start selling cookies at the start of the new year? It's the exact same time people make resolutions to go on a diet!
I am so thankful that our troop leader is really relaxed and our cookie sale is very laid back. I hate asking (or having my dd ask) the same people that we hit up for school fundraisers.
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