She’ll just call back in a week and ask to speak to your husband 
I considered it for a moment… just because I didn’t want to deal with the woman. But yes, it was just easier to give the sticker back.
I Dig Bad Boys said: …that sticker could’ve been laced with acid or something and it would’ve absorbed into your skin the moment you touched it and you would’ve become an instant addict!
Seriously…my mom used to tell me horror stories like that…
My mother too. heh It was wax paper, though, so no danger there. Not to mention, people generally don’t give drugs away for free. Dammit. <g>
LOL.
But you never know,jane…weg
IDBB
Our school sent home stupid flyers espousing that urban legend. We’d get at least one per school year! Blue star, Mickey Mouse, you name it. I suspected it was a bunch of crap, but I didn’t find actual proof until I read Jan Harold Brunvand’s books in college. Gee, I wish we’d had Snopes back then–could have saved a few trees!
Sure are, though they haven’t been called Camp Fire Girls in 20 years or more. It was Camp Fire Boys and Girls when I joined in the mid-80s and it’s apparently been Camp Fire USA for quite some time since then.
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know (and then some) from an Officially registered Girl Scout Cookie Manager:
Here in Ohio, our cookies sell for $2.50/box:
$.88 is the cost of the cookies and the cost of the cookie sale.
$1.25 goes to the Girl Scout Council which pays for maintaining the GS camps, buying insurance, leadership activities, and financial aid to needy Scouts.
.37 is the average amount the individual troop makes. (Troops make between .32 - $42/box depending on the average number of boxes each girl sells.)
As cookie manager, I am responsible for coordinating the sale for my daughter’s troop. I collect all the order forms, add everything up, and order the # of cases we need. I can also order extra boxes for booth sales, should we wish to do so. It is not required. There are tips in the manual for how many cookies an average booth sale will sell and a breakdown on how popular each cookie was last year. (FYI, an average booth sale sells ~25 boxes an hour. This averages to ~$12/hour for the troop. Not a great return.) I pick up all the cookies, distribute them, and make sure each girl pays me what she owes for her pre-orders.
We are not allowed to return extra cases that we ordered for our booth sale. We ARE responsible for paying for them, however. So if we don’t sell them, we eat the cost, pardon the pun. Last year we had about a dozen boxes left over. We donated them to the Ronald McDonald house as part of a community service project. This year we have ~18 boxes left over so far and we intend to ship them to the troops overseas if we don’t sell them by the end of the sale.
This is by far our #1 money raiser, but as you can see, most of the money goes to the council and not the troop.
Yeah, I think that they technically allowed boys when I joined (in the early ‘80’s), but, in my town at least, it was still pretty much a girls’ group then. (Boys had Cub/Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts didn’t move in until I was older. Now that I think about it, that may have been because some parents and girls preferred a girls-only group rather than a co-ed one.) I’m glad to hear that they are still around–they just must not be big in the Twin Cities. It would be a good alternative group for those who have problems with Boy Scouts’ anti-homosexual/anti-atheist stance.
It makes me sad to see kids, looking as if they’re from the poorer parts of town, wandering around in pairs, obviously tired from carrying large boxes of candy all day. I try to just give them a little money if I can, as a donation, but I’m really not big on candy. It would be better if whoever sends these kids out would give them something else to sell. One time only, a kid came to the door with candles for sale, and I bought a couple. Otherwise it’s almost always candy.
I love the lemon pastry creams… but the Girl Scouts here don’t sell them (we used to when I was little. Also, thin mints used to be a chocolate cookie covered by the kind of mint you get in a york peppermint patty then dipped in chocolate. The new kind are good, but not as good as those were.)
When we were little, we were asked to guess how many cookies we thought we would be able to sell, order that many, and then try to sell them (unsold ones could go back to the cookie parent). How you made your initial guess was up to you (either you could take pre-orders, or you could just come up with a number out of the blue, or something in between) and they did provide opportunities for us to sell outside of grocery stores and banks, etc.
Um, hi,
Band Booster Mom here.
I apologize to the original poster on behalf of my fellow band moms. I’m not sure why they would be cold calling people, but maybe they’re seriously hard up for cash.
What follows is a semi-rant/whine/explanation for the begging.
My daughter’s middle school band program costs 30,000 dollars a year above and beyond what the school board provides, and that does not include student-owned instruments and uniforms. The school provides the very basic necessities. That’s a building and a teacher. All of the music, course books, the copy machine and its maintenance, the telephone (necessary for kids to call parents after school hours), the school bus rental for performances, all of these and more are paid for out of moneys raised by the Band Booster Club.
Thirty thousand dollars is a heck of a lot of car washes. We try not to sell too much junk, but sometimes we just run out of ideas.
-Spam
I will second what Spam & Cookies-mmm said. And cackle my head off at her handle.
Also, next time you see kids running around selling popcorn wrapping paper candy magazines cookies sausage cheese gift packages, pause for a moment and think about how much the Government - Federal AND State - is spending on education.
THAT’S why the kids keep beating on your door, folks.