Originally Posted by
Jo Anne B.
From my most recent experiences the selling of GS cookies have come to be the parents chore, send out a mass email, take the orders and do the delivery. I don't think the cookies are as good, boxes are smaller and more expensive, I can buy better and cheaper cookies from Wal Mart. While I may not be supporting a cause, I don't think the cookies are all that good anymore. We have bought for the troops.
I was GS and was from the era of carrying the boxes door to door through snow and cold. I dreaded cookie time.
Samoas were our favorite, until price kept going up and the parents would bring the sign up sheets to work and sell for the kids. Thought that was so silly considering the whole purpose of the program, so we
now we go to Walmart and get the Keebler Coconut Dreams for $1.98. This weeks pricing anyway. Same cookie taste and look as the GS ones.
The funniest thing we saw, however, was when a neighbor girl put a sign out on the stop sign in the neighborhood, asking that if anyone wanted to buy some cookies from her, we must go to her house. A sign up sheet was taped to the door. Both parents worked so perhaps there was no time to go around the neighborhood with her.