My girls are continuing with the time honored activity of selling Girl Scout cookies to the masses this month. Moira has recently joined the ranks and I now have to sell for TWO! I say "I" because I'm not letting my girl's go door-to-door around these parts since I know there is still a registered sex offender lurking about our addition's fences and trees.
I feel so warm and fuzzy with this last thought.
Now I have to drive around, hit up friends and foe as well as eat a box a day for quality control purposes. Day one: eat a Samoa, rub on right thigh, lather, rinse, repeat. Day two: eat a Tag along rub on left thigh, lather, rinse and repeat. Day three: eat a thin mint, rub on expanding belly and so on and so on and so on....
I feel my bra strangling me after a week. After a month? I'm going to have to rent a wheelchair for my ass to tool around though I don't think they make them that big. As in my current ass size.
Next year I think I'll go ahead and fork over the $175.00/per kid and skip the actual cookie sales so I won't have to go through the cookies wars. with myself.
I wonder if I can write that expenditure off on my taxes. Office supplies?
Mmmm cookies sound so good right now. Fucking diet..
Posted by: InDueTime | 31 January 2012 at 10:58 PM
How about "meals and entertainment"? Or, better yet, mental health.
God, I want frozen samoas right now. I made myself sick on thin mints last year. Can't quite do it. I'd kill for a tagalong, but I'm not doing PB right now.
Those suckers sent me to horse camp as a Brownie. Go go Girl Scouts!
Posted by: Page | 01 February 2012 at 02:50 AM
Since the troops get only about 10% of the cookie sales, maybe you could just donate $20 per child and it's a win-win for everyone!
Posted by: Lori | 01 February 2012 at 03:40 AM
Thin Mints at my house are kept in the freezer and eaten directly from said freezer. I HEART Thin Mints. Although, the name is misleading.....I don't get thin when I eat them.
Posted by: DawnA | 01 February 2012 at 09:48 AM
You should just sell them on your blog!
Posted by: Gamanda | 01 February 2012 at 12:38 PM
So you can pay $350 to not sell cookies??
Posted by: 180|360 | 01 February 2012 at 01:21 PM
Are the Tagalongs the peanut butter cookies? I want some of those...
Posted by: a | 01 February 2012 at 03:59 PM
You have to PAY to NOT sell?
I am so done with Girl Scout cookies - did my share in a very low key troop.
Don't EVER remember quotas ...
Not real thrilled with the scam the GSA perpetrates against the girls, and raising the costs per box etc. Forcing them to hang out at grocery stores . .etc
SO I DO NOT BUY THEM ANY MORE!
Period.
So stop the drama EVERY DANG TIME I LEAVE THE SUPERMARKET . .they are worse than those darn signature gatherers . .
Posted by: Becki | 01 February 2012 at 05:43 PM
Oy...this gives brings back nightmares! For two years our house/garage was the "Cookie Cupboard" for our area troops..... The only thing worse than selling cookies was having to deal with all the different troops picking up their cookies...talk about stressful and competitive! Both years I had parents camped outside our home so they could be the first troop to get selling! Oyyyyy!!
Posted by: Snow | 02 February 2012 at 08:58 AM
I was just wishin' I had some of those Lemony-ones...
Posted by: Ashley | 02 February 2012 at 10:20 AM
Ugh. When my daughter was in brownies, I will never forget the WORK that was for the parents. After all the selling, then picking them up, sorting them out, delivering them, making sure we had the correct amount of money, STRESSFUL.
The things we do for our kids :)
Posted by: Sandi | 03 February 2012 at 07:45 AM
Just bought two cases of GS cookies. From my daughter. Enough said :)
Posted by: Noelle | 07 February 2012 at 12:20 AM