Originally Posted By wahooskipper Friends, When you are out buying your Girl Scout cookies in the next few weeks, please remember our troops. The Girl Scouts have a program where you can buy a box (or more) of cookies and those cookies will be shipped overseas to our troops. This is an easy, non-political, and relatively cheap way to support our troops. This past Sunday I bought some boxes for the house and then bought two more for troops. The girls didn't have the proper forms but they took my name and number and said they would take care of it. Why only 2? Well, I spread my cookie buying around so I'll be purchasing more for me...and for our troops. Just give it a thought when you see the girls. If I was a soldier, I'd be pretty darn thrilled to see a box of Thin Mints heading my way! And, I leave you with this: Why don't Boy Scouts sell cookies? Because, who wants to eat a cookie that says "BS" on it?
Originally Posted By Bucky N Satchel Great idea wahoo! I normally turn the girls away without a sale (I don't need those things in the house, my booty is big enough thank you). But now if any come to my door I'll make sure to buy some to go to the troops. Thanks for the info!
Originally Posted By Ursula I have three standing orders each year. My friends' kids just KNOW not only will I buy them, but I make other people buy them, too. Not one of my regulars have asked me about this, so I shall ask the last one, who hasn't contacted me yet.
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 What a great idea! I just emailed my Girl Scout connection to inquire!
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka It's called The Gift of Caring program. Each scout gets a special patch if their troop participates. We sell the cookies but also donate some of our own troop money to send cookies. <a href="http://www.girlscoutstotem.org/Cookies/CookieGiftCaring.htm" target="_blank">http://www.girlscoutstotem.org /Cookies/CookieGiftCaring.htm</a>
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Oops, forgot to say GOC-Operation Cookie Drop. Before the Iraq war, we would donate cookies to shelters or rest homes, etc. Sometimes people just give us cash towards cookies or our troop.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That sounds like a really great idea. I'm not sure how they came up with it or actually make it work, but I'm sure it is one of those little things that really means a lot to them. "Why don't Boy Scouts sell cookies?" They sell popcorn instead. And trust me, from personal experience, it is really tough trying to convince people that they need to buy the BSA popcorn. Why did the Girl Scouts have to take the good one first?
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I was actually in the Boy Scouts many moons ago when they first rolled out the "gourmet popcorn" sales program. Everyone was like, "you've got to be kidding me. Where's the sweets?"
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka One problem with the popcorn is that it's really expensive. The cookies are kind of expensive but you can get a box for $4...I think the cheapest box of popcorn is $15 or so. I still have some chocolate coated caramel corn from the holidays. It was tasty but still kind of costly.
Originally Posted By ajnhollysmommy It does help to sell the Boy Scout popcorn when you have a cute little face asking you, my brat boy sold almost $800 worth of the stuff LOL
Originally Posted By Ursula Thank you LP. Once again, I learned something here. Our GSC pusher here made the rounds and we all bought some. I told others of this program and now there are a lot of boxes of cookies headed to the troops. Everyone feels good that they did something nice today.
