Anyone else get annoyed with the girl scout cookie sales this time of year?

What???? Are those little girls running up to you, hanging and crying on your freakin pant leg to buy them? You don't have a gun to your head for petes sake! If you feel guilty that's your problem. Fundraising allows a lot of meaningful clubs/groups to function successfully. Bet you'd buy a potholder to support the local track team!

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find out the truth wrote:

Truthfully this is unfortunately a huge scam. The local troop sees little if any of the money they raise. It goes to professional central office girl scout leaders who do well with the returns.

When I ran the sale for my town a few years ago, most of the proceeds went to the local council, which used them to reduce the cost of council programs and camps.

At $4/box:

$1 went to the baker (GSA got its portion from licensing fees, paid by the baker out of their $1)

~$2 went to the local council

~$1 went to the troop and girls in the form of prizes.

I just researched it. Only 10% goes to the troop.

just want to buy bananas wrote:

Went to the grocery store today and got asked six times if I wanted to buy cookies. No kidding; six times. This is out of hand. I'm thinking of looking for stores where they don't set up shop (if there are any) or going at non-peak times when hopefully they aren't there.

You are an anti-American traitor. Consider your mountain goat ass reported.

just want to buy bananas wrote:

Went to the grocery store today and got asked six times if I wanted to buy cookies. No kidding; six times. This is out of hand. I'm thinking of looking for stores where they don't set up shop (if there are any) or going at non-peak times when hopefully they aren't there.

Larry? Is that you?

Girl Scout Cookies are the best fund raiser ever.

You give money and get value.

Much better than donating for a kid to run laps.

I avoid them in front of the stores now. It's not easy telling them that the quality of the ingredients has gone down so much that they aren't that enjoyable anymore. "Not my cookies"

As a girl scout dad I really dislike the sales emphasis put on this and how in-your-face it can become. It's not that the girl scouts are pushy, but doing it every single year for a month at a time makes it seem excessively in your face. What I will say, though, is that I looked into what % of the sales makes it back to the girl scouts to use on their projects and it was way more than I thought. You can at least get some consolation from knowing that they are NOT just child laborers peddling wares for a big corporate entity above them that is beyond their understanding.

Its all spelled out here, there is no rip off or scam. The baker only makes $ because of the massive scale involved, the local GS council (or whatever they call it) and the selling troop basically split the profit. None goes to GS national.

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/FAQs.html

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I have helped with pickup and distribution for our local troop, b/c I have a truck. They sell massive amounts. 100s and 100s of cases (of 12?) boxes each, thousands of 4$ boxes of cookies. The lady told me the troop gets $0.60/box.

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http://nypost.com/2017/02/08/this-guy-tried-to-give-girl-scouts-vodka-for-cookies/

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/restaurants/foodie/os-et-cookies-beer-20170221-story.html

I don't buy that crap and have zero problem looking the little flabby girl in the eye and tell her "No thank you. I'm an athlete. Athletes don't eat processed junk food because it makes you fat. Start eating better or you'll end up like your mom."

You're not running hard enough if Girl Scout cookies make you fat.

Star wrote:

You're not running hard enough if Girl Scout cookies make you fat.

Post of the day.

There is nothing wrong with girls pitching cookies. I lead them them through the whole pitch, then give them $5 every time I run into a troop.

It's a good life skill even though it is a very simple version of a pitch and they don't know or care it's a life skill.

That said, the cookies are disgusting.

You must really hate America to be bothered by girl scouts.

Star wrote:

You're not running hard enough if Girl Scout cookies make you fat.

I wasn't referring to me, genius.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

Star wrote:

You're not running hard enough if Girl Scout cookies make you fat.

Post of the day.

There is nothing wrong with girls pitching cookies. I lead them them through the whole pitch, then give them $5 every time I run into a troop.

It's a good life skill even though it is a very simple version of a pitch and they don't know or care it's a life skill.

That said, the cookies are disgusting.

You must really hate America to be bothered by girl scouts.

Oh boy......it's the white knight pedo, pop-pop to the scouts' rescue. Hahahahaha...

You're not helping their cause, f-tard. You're teaching the young women that all they need to do is bat their eyes at an old perv and they get a five spot. Way to contribute to society, you horny goat.