A big “thank you” to the Girl Scouts of America for giving me the incentive I needed to pass up your cookies this year. Already, for the past few years they haven’t been as good as they used to be but I kept buying, even though I had to pay $3.50 for cookies that were no better than larger packages of better tasting cookies that cost only about $2.00, because it was the Girl Scouts. Already some varieties, like the Samoas, one of my favorites, had so few in a box that it wasn’t worth buying them. But now they decided to make the boxes even smaller.
If they had raised the price again I might have bought some again this year. After all, it’s the Girl Scouts and it’s only once a year. What’s $3.50 or $7.00 (I ususally buy two boxes) for a special treat once a year? But downsizing feels like a cheat. And they haven’t even been all that special for a number of years. So, Girl Scouts, I thank you, my wallet thanks you… I was going to say my waistline thanks you but I doubt it will notice since I’m always making my own cookies anyway.
January 26th, 2009 - 6:27 pm
1. I think I’d rather just send a donation check than feel like I was getting ripped off for a box of 12 cookies or something.
2. I dropped out of Girl Scouts after the cookie-selling started (I think that was either the first or second year as a full-fledged scout; Brownies didn’t have to do that). I HATED selling stuff with a passion – unfortunately, my school also did that to raise funds for some ambiguous purchase. It feels wrong to me to turn children into hucksters. (Of course, some of them, the little politicians, are way too good at it; shy children like myself saw it as a form of torture – having to work up the courage to go and talk to neighbors only to be told, “Oh, sorry, but Billy D. and his mom came through here earlier and we bought from him.”)
January 27th, 2009 - 11:53 am
Yah. And your cookies are better than some little box of girl-scout garbage.