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Girl Scout Cookies go on sale today
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by amyjudd | January 9, 2009 at 04:43 pm
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The eagerly awaited Girl Scout Cookies go on sale today until March.
Bobby Barone, Troop 401 leader in Fort Payne, said she isn’t worried about the sale.
“I don’t let anything stress me out,” Barone said. “The cookie sale is always an exciting time for me and the girls.”
Barone said she expects cookies sales to be as good or better than past years. Two new flavors will be introduced this year.
“This year, we’ll have the Lemon Chalet Crème and the Dulce de Leche,” Barone said.
The Girl Scouts’ most popular cookie is the Thin Mint followed by the Samoas.
Cookies are on sale for $3.50 a box, and booths will be set up across North America for everyone to buy these cookies.
About 70% of the revenue from the cookies stays in the area that they are sold in to help out the Girl Scout troops, and the other 30% goes to the bakers.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (18)
at 18:19 on January 9th, 2009
I just love those Thin Mints!
zackojones has contributed a photo to this story.
at 20:47 on January 9th, 2009
Cookies are $4 a box this year... if not more!
at 11:04 on January 13th, 2009
Cookies are actually $3.50 this year
at 14:14 on February 8th, 2009
Where we are (CA) the cookies are $4.00 a box.
at 21:00 on January 9th, 2009
Dulce de Leche...now that's a tempting flavor!
at 23:25 on January 9th, 2009
The process of sorting cases of cookies into stacks for each girl to distribute took most of a Saturday morning last March. in their first year of selling, Brownie Troop 2005 of Sandy, Utah sold about 2500 boxes of cookies by taking orders door-to-door and setting up booths at a church and a grocery store.
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at 03:12 on January 10th, 2009
Hooray!!!
I for one am proud of the Girl Scouts and what they do. And I get cookies too. I don't care what they cost. It is an investment in children that pays dividends far beyond what we give.
Paddy
at 03:17 on January 10th, 2009
Thanks for this news. I buy a case every year and give them to my friends. It helps the sales lady, the Girl Scouts and I stay in the good graces of my friends.
at 15:46 on January 11th, 2009
Thanks for the notice.I love the mint cookies.
at 08:10 on January 12th, 2009
I got a note on my door as we were not home when they came through our neighborhood. It said $3.50 a box.
at 08:42 on January 12th, 2009
Why do they choose to sell these in January?
We are in Chicago and there is about a foot of snow on the ground, with more 5 more inches expected today and 35 MPH winds and single digit temps for the rest of the week. They could do these sales any time from March though November and it would be ok. How could they not realize that the weather is real bad in about half the U.S. in January?
at 14:44 on January 12th, 2009
I haven't had a box of those tasty thin mints for years! Girl Guides - look me up!
at 19:12 on January 12th, 2009
Out here in Arizona the cookies are sold for $4 a box.
at 13:29 on January 29th, 2009
How many boxes come in a case of thin mints?
at 07:52 on February 2nd, 2009
Love the photos!!!! From one GS leader to another!!! Regarding The photo with the GS in front of a table/cookie booth, where did you get the sign that says "It's Girl Scout Cookie Time" ?????? Does your council provide them? I would like to find out where to order them.
Cottonwood Heights, UT Troop 482
at 07:55 on February 2nd, 2009
I too wonder why we take orders in January. Everyone is on a diet! At least booth sales are in March when the weather is better. ~ In Salt Lake City.
at 12:17 on February 7th, 2009
I was wondering, how many cookies are in each thin mint box?
at 21:04 on February 26th, 2009
Each case of cookies (any flavor) has 12 boxes. A box of Thin Mints says it has "about 28 cookies." They are $3.50 in PA and the Troop gets .65 per box sold.