mmm I love these cookies too! I wish I had bought more :)

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I hated selling cookies when I was a kid. I hate getting squeezed by everyone we know who has kids. I hated when my kids had to do it (until they got in a troop that met on the campus at UCLA and couldn't hand cookies out fast enough on the quad to students in the middle of exam week ;>). And I hated cookie season when I was an asst. troop leader and a cookie chairman.

The troops get an infinitesimal portion of those overpriced and marginal cookies. Most of the money goes to the manufacturers who are the ones who really benefit from the association with Girl Scounts. The national organization and the showy "prizes" they dazzle the girls with get the next largest pieces of the pie. The girls get pennies and they would get sooo much more out of planning and executing something themselves. It all feels like gross exploitation to me.

I suppose you all know there are cheater recipes for the thin mints out there on the internets too...

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I hated selling cookies when I was a kid. I hate getting squeezed by everyone we know who has kids. I hated when my kids had to do it (until they got in a troop that met on the campus at UCLA and couldn't hand cookies out fast enough on the quad to students in the middle of exam week ;>). And I hated cookie season when I was an asst. troop leader and a cookie chairman.

The troops get an infinitesimal portion of those overpriced and marginal cookies. Most of the money goes to the manufacturers who are the ones who really benefit from the association with Girl Scounts. The national organization and the showy "prizes" they dazzle the girls with get the next largest pieces of the pie. The girls get pennies and they would get sooo much more out of planning and executing something themselves. It all feels like gross exploitation to me.

I suppose you all know there are cheater recipes for the thin mints out there on the internets too...

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Samoas are a little piece of Girl Scout cookie heaven.

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Ok, the Thin Mints were always my favorites. But I must be honest, if I bought 5-7 boxes, they might make it to the freezer, but for a week tops!

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Yep, Samoas and Thin Mints.

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