Many of my coworkers have daughters who are cookie-pushers. Our home page bulletin board must have had 10 different “Buy Cookies from My Kid” ads, including the one insufferable boor who bumped his to the top of the list every day. There were even a couple who tried to guilt us into buying: Cookies for the troops in Iraq! Cookies for wounded vets!
I think the ads are finally falling to the bottom of the page…
At one company I worked for, you signed up for a day to bring your fundraising order forms. You had that one day to post your order form, and at the end of the day, you had to take it down. All you could post was the official order form; other materials were not permitted. If your kid didn’t sell a boatload of cookies that day, too bad. Oh, and merchandise had to be distributed during your off time, preferably off-premises.
Basically, management was sick of people wasting time selling stuff. Since there were also rules about selling stuff like Avon, management just decided to apply it to non-profit fundraising.
Note: I support the Girl Scouts to the tune of around $35 a year. In fact, I got a spiel about the local Girl Scout council from a classmate who works for them. She brought cookies. 
The campus radio station also gets some public service announcements every year that come in a box full of one box of every kind of cookie the local council sells. We like the Girl Scouts. A lot.
Robin
If you check out your yellow pages and find out where the nearest Girl Scout Council office is, you can usually buy cookies straight from them. The 45 cents a box that a troop would have made just goes directly back to the Council, which isn’t generally a bad thing. It helps pay for a lot of great stuff, like camp scholarships and whatnot.
Whaaa? When did this start - I haven’t seen a single Girl Scout this year! I’m going to start going and hanging out around Albertsons looking for them, they must be slackin’ off.
It’s all about the…Samoas, I guess they’re called now? The lovely coconut-caramel ones? In my Girl Scout days, they wre called Jubilees. Those, and the shortbread ones. Mmmm.
BTW, Mr. Bunny informed me the other day that there exists such a thing now as Girl Scout cookie ice cream.
Yeah, I’ve seen Edy’s ice cream in both Thin Mint and Samoa varieties. Mmmmmmm.
FWIW - our booth sales don’t start until the first weekend in March. That may be why you haven’t seen the troops at the grocery stores yet.
Hey! They were called Jubilees back in my cookie-selling days, too. Cool! Thanks for reminding me of that.
I don’t know why they even bother making low-fat ones. That just defeats the whole point.
Ok, somebody clue me in here. I hear this every year, how it’s “Girl Scout cookie time again!”. Umm…when is it not GSC time? There isn’t a time of the year that I can’t track down some kids hawking cookies at one local supermarket or another. Yes, they’re more common when the weather is warmer, but I saw them in the foyer of Acme yesterday, same place I saw them a month ago.
I guess they’re just stocking up during GSC season and going for the “slow deal” addiction?
The parents where I work only come around once a year, and it was a couple of weeks ago.
You’re welcome! For years I’ve been telling fellow G.S. cookie enthusiasts about the name change, and no one ever had a clue what I was talking about! They were a different shape as well - either they used to be round and now they’re square, or they used to be square and now they’re round…the memory, she’s failing me.
GSCs are only supposed to be sold at a certain time of year. (Mid February to Mid March-ish). After that, you don’t get them for another 11 months.
Other organizations might be selling other cookie/candy type things. But they’re not Girl Scout Cookies. (If they are, they’re seriously breaking the rules).
I love Trefoils. Love them. Could eat boxes at a sitting. (I’ve never gotten through more than half-a-box in one “meal” - but that’s only through extreme willpower).
But I will only buy them from actual girl scouts. Not parents, not friends, absolutely not a sign-up-sheet tacked up in the break room. I need to hand over my money to an actual child and then get some cookies back.
I totally adore thin mints. But I’m not buying any this year since I’m still trying to lose weight. (it’s going badly, but I don’t need the extra temptation)
It’s also part of my pact with myself to not buy from any school and related fundraisers this year. There are just too many people bringing things into the office to sell on behalf of their offspring and I’m staying out of it this year.
Do you have a supplier, and if so, will you share her with me? I usually contrive to avoid the cookies, because I can’t resist them once I own them. But I have the excuse of being pregnant this year, and I’ll be damned if I’m not going to use that excuse while I have it. I want me some Thin Mints! I might be able to wait until they are sufficiently frozen, but I’m not making any promises.
Didn’t they use to call the peanut butter ones, Savannahs? I loved those.