Posted on 01/11/2009 10:42:35 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
Worse yet, troops generally only get .50 cents profit per box and MUST sell cookies if they want to do ANY other fundraisers for which they might actually earn enough to fund any decent activities.
After a couple of years of busting our tails on sales and booths we saw the light. We would sell the barest minimum and then do other fundraisers where we could actually earn money and then take our girls on some very nice trips, which they voted on and planned themselves. They were involved in the whole process and learned a lot.
No Dulce de Leche for me, thank you.
How long before Bimbo becomes the Girl Scout cookie supplier?
Back when the cookies were still $2 my neighbor was a GS leader for her daughter’s troop...
She told me that when they sold a box they got 25 cents...
She preferred the money...
I had a great racket going for weekend doughnut sales when I was a Boy Scout. I’d pick up the donuts Saturday morning and do nothing with them until Sunday. My house was across the street from a church and I’d walk the traffic line selling them from car to car at the stoplight when services ended. 15 minutes was all it took while my buddies were spending the whole day on Saturday to hawk theirs.
Do girl scout cookies have high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated oils in them?
Now THAT is entrepreneurial !
They're really, really tasty!!!!!
And on the seventh day God created Thin Mints.....GREATEST COOKIE EVER.
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