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Originally Posted by midwife
My main problem is that my younger daughter is a girl scout, so we are kind of caught up in the culture of it as the moment. She sold over 280 boxes. Maybe we need to start selling string cheese or something.
As with many things, it is nice to know I am not the only one!!!
That will NEVER happen ~ those cookies are the biggest monopoly known to mankind! I am not down on Girl Scouts, my daughter was one and I was the only dad that did the merit badges, camping etc. But the girls are not allowed to raise money any other way! And talk about the profit for the corporation (did you ever see 60 Minutes on this?).
Now Boy Scouts is different...any money raised stays in your troop. One night my son's troop raised over $600 for auctioning off cakes, at our church, that the dads and boys had made...this was matched by an insurance company giving us $1,200.00 for the year on one easy auction! My daughter's troops never saw anything close to that in the entire 6 years TOTAL of selling thousands of cookies at a very HIGH PRICE! And now OPERATION THIN MINT...hummmmm
It's good for the boys and girls in our service...but I just bet Girl Scouts corporation doesn't lose a dime on it or make any kind of donation!! Could be wrong and I am sure to make people mad
But just try to raise money for your troop of girls without selling cookies...not gonna happen.