Dennis serves as assistant leader for a Brownie Troop. Don't ask how it happened. Actually he just returned with Naomi from an afternoon field trip to the Fire Station with his 5 Brownies. They are also selling cookies, firt-time sellers most of them with some frazzled overcommitted parents. The picture shows his initial cookie order stuffed into our van.
Kinda scary giving out all those cookies to parents who are not sure what it's all about. I know that, in the past, sometimes I felt some parents were so completely clueless that I wouldn't even give them their cookies. I would let their daughters come sell with us. I remember one parent who felt that girl scout cookies meant that she got to EAT girl scout cookies, not sell them nor be responsible for the money.
I have spent many an hour in front of various grocery stores (I highly prefer our local Thriftway) with our completely chewed up ancient wood card table.
"Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies?"
"Thanks for supporting girl scouts!"
My girls know that you can always unload those last few cases if you just gut it out. One day Ilana and I sat at Thriftway and we were down to 13 boxes and they were ALL trefoils (shortbread). We sold them. I don't think selling in downtown Seattle works. We have sold at basketball games and softball tournaments. Ilana and I sometimes would 'bootleg' (set up somewhere not authorized). We found that those poor suckers buying home repair supplies at Home Depot were easy marks. They're tired, frustrated, hungry, have money and they WANT cookies. We sold a lot of cookies, eventually we were thrown out but, hey, this year they wouldn't remember us.
Last spring I filled our small suitcase with cookies and took them to Hawaii with me and sold them at the collegiate tournament at U Hawaii Manoa. Most all to players and parents. They are HUNGRY after their game. I planned to sell the cookies and use the suitcase for souvenirs on the return trip (it worked!)
We're leaving before the end of the sale. We do have some desperation sales slots right before we go. Naomi knows. At the end, you have to go to Thriftway and stay there until you sell whatever you have left, what you haven't sold and what's left from everybody else.
Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies?
1 comment:
How fun to find a Lake Forest Park city blog...although this one is more fun as it has juicy details! I'm just coming back to my photoblog.
All those cookies bring back memories. I was a leader for six years and SUM for two. Good for you for taking on the task!
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