Starting yesterday you can purchase your favorite cookies from your neighborhood Girl Scouts. This weekend is Red Wagon Weekend so be on the look out for girls coming around to houses with wagons full of cookies. Booths at stores like Walmart and HEB will start the following weekend. We've gone back to the other bakery this year so you should be able to find Lemonades and Thanks-a-lots along with the new S'mores cookie. We also have the traditional favorites: Thin Mints, Caramel Delights (Samoas), Peanut Butter Patties (Tagalongs), Peanut Butter Sandwich (Do-Si-Dos), and Shortbread (Trefoil). There are also a limited number of boxes of the gluten-free cookie, Trios, out there but once those are sold, we won't be able to get more.
Most boxes of cookies are still $4/box with around $3/box going to area Girl Scouts. None of the money generated from the cookie sale goes to national. Please be kind if you don't want cookies since this is a learning opportunity for the girls. The point of the sale is to teach girls about money management (they should know what they are using their cookie proceeds for), customer service, and business ethics. Also if you see older girls selling, understand that they most likely are selling to participate in some really great opportunities that are available through Girl Scouts. I have 4 older (13 and up) Girl Scouts going to Japan this summer and 12 going to San Diego over Spring Break. My troop has 9 girls working on Silver Award projects and at least 2 who will start working on their Gold Awards in the next year.
Please support your local scouts!
Most boxes of cookies are still $4/box with around $3/box going to area Girl Scouts. None of the money generated from the cookie sale goes to national. Please be kind if you don't want cookies since this is a learning opportunity for the girls. The point of the sale is to teach girls about money management (they should know what they are using their cookie proceeds for), customer service, and business ethics. Also if you see older girls selling, understand that they most likely are selling to participate in some really great opportunities that are available through Girl Scouts. I have 4 older (13 and up) Girl Scouts going to Japan this summer and 12 going to San Diego over Spring Break. My troop has 9 girls working on Silver Award projects and at least 2 who will start working on their Gold Awards in the next year.
Please support your local scouts!