“You don’t have to buy the cookies. Donate money to the troop :-)”
...wish I’d thought of that. Next year.
And I’ve got a question: Why does the GSA need such a honking big bureaucracy anyway? If folks want to have a GS-like troop, maybe they should just start their own, call it something else, and do the kind of activities they’d like to do. Without a bunch of bureaucrats breathing down their necks, dictating an agenda, and skimming off their money.