<p>This is my last year as Cookie Mom as my D is a senior. I can’t believe this!!</p>
<p>[Crumbling</a> economy will make for thinner boxes of Thin Mints - CNN.com](<a href=“Crumbling economy will make for thinner boxes of Thin Mints - CNN.com”>Crumbling economy will make for thinner boxes of Thin Mints - CNN.com)</p>
<p>I can’t afford a $3.50 box of cookies. I just give them a dollar and keep going.</p>
<p>They’re $4 a pop in our neck of the woods.</p>
<p>For the last few years we have purchased but asked that they be donated to soldiers. </p>
<p>My understanding is that the donations of cookies do go to the soldiers in Iraq/Afganistan</p>
<p>it’s the least I can do to support the girl scouts. I buy two cases. One of thin mints, and one of samoas.</p>
<p>I still buy them. I remember how hard it was going around asking people if they would buy some.</p>
<p>Need Thin Mints in the off season? They are sold in the stores as Keebler Grasshoppers.</p>
<p>$4.00 here in CT too. And I’ve already committed to 12 boxes (no relatives!).</p>
<p>We buy to support the little neighbor girls who come ringing. I’ll take them to work and make everyone fat.</p>
<p>$4 a box here. I buy from the neighbors and from any student who asks me at school (usually only one or two ask). Friends kids are no longer scouts!! </p>
<p>But $4 for 15 or 20 cookies is a LOT of money.</p>
<p>The council around here was very successful the past few years with selling cookies to be shipped overseas to soldiers. This year they decided not to pay the shipping costs, and the scout troops can’t afford it themselves.</p>
<p>I have gotten several e-mails declaring that the PB is not affected by the salmonella problems. I ran the cookie sale here for several years. I still buy them to support the girls. No one came to my door this year (weather was lousy).</p>
<p>The troop doesn’t get much money from each sale, so cash donations are much appreciated! That’s what I’ve started doing - better for my waist.</p>
<p>Yes, the troop does get such a small amount for their hard work in the sales. Last few years, I just made a donation to the troop and I am the cookie mom!
Our biggest sellers this year: Gift of Caring- which is just a cash donation and then GSA sends the cases of cookies overseas to the troops.
Also… they stopped putting trans fats in their cookies - those tre-foils just aren’t the same without them!!</p>
<p>We have bought from d’s friends in past years but I still have at least 6 boxes in the cupboard and the freezer. Back in my day we sold them for 50 cents per box (is that what the troop gets these days?) , and got a badge for selling 50 boxes.</p>
<p>This is the first year in ages we haven’t had to sell them - youngest at age 11 quit Girl Scouts - we were always the WORST seller in the troop! I hate fundraiser selling and my family doesn’t even like the girl scout cookies so I always ended up buying some and then finally throwing them out of the freezer in August… :(</p>
<p>I buy them, but no one ever comes to my door and I don’t know any Girl Scouts any more. When I was a Girl Scout we all hated selling them, so our troop got permission to sell them in front of the local A&P. They were very nice about it, and we did so much better than we ever had before.</p>
<p>For years I have been sending care packages of girl scout cookies to various nieces and nephews in college. It was always a great hit! Of course the postage cost me about what the cookies were worth, but it got to be kind of a tradition. Now for the first time I can send the care package to my freshman D. She asked if I was going to, and of course I said yes. She is so excited and can’t wait to get the care package and share it with her roommate and friends.</p>
<p>My D did her last year of 13 in '08, 'though she still plans to be a GS counselor this summer. Did you know the troop can tell you how to donate without buying, for the some amount of profit to the troop? Also it’s interesting to note how different communities can get different prices for the same cookies (which are not all from the same bakeries, BTW). We lived in the poorest county in our council, and the council talked about folks coming to our city for cheaper cookies. I don’t think most do it for a “deal” though. Most of the cookies sold by older scouts seem to happen at schools and storefronts where to live. It’s finny when a few high schoolers realize a few others are still scouting And by parents at work of course.</p>
<p>Is it just here or are all Girl Scouts now selling cookies right now, not getting orders for future delivery? It’s so much better than when my girls were in scouts! I still have nightmares about being a fledgling Troop leader and discovering that the mom who had voluneered to be Cookie Mom had collected the envelopes, opened them, dumped all the money on her dining room table, and left it there for a week. And she had 3 teen aged sons, 2 of whom had drug problems. Yeah, we ate a lot of cookies that year. </p>
<p>But, girl scout cookies are probably most college kid’s comfort food. Trefoils. Thin mints. Samoas. They will all get a good reaction in a care care package!</p>
<p>^ We’ve had folks brought up on charges around here.</p>
<p>To be frank, I’m de’light’ed there will be fewer cookies per box! It means fewer cookies on my…waistline. I couldn’t say no this year. One girl’s mom is a friend. The other one I don’t know so well but the little girl has always been painfully shy. I couldn’t very well refuse her when it took so much courage to ring the doorbell.</p>