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Girl Scout sells record number of cookies
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Sadly, Girl Scout cookie season has come and gone this year. As usual, we blew through our cookie purchases in no time at all. Do-Si-Dos, Samoas and Tagalongs -- all gone. Even the Thin Mints I stashed behind the veggies in the freezer have long since been devoured. But I'll bet there are some lucky people in Dearborn, Michigan with a few boxes still in the pantry. Those folks had the good fortune to be in 15-year-old Jennifer Sharpe's territory and she is a cookie selling machine!
This year, Sharpe sold an incredible 17,328 boxes of everyone's favorite cookies and in doing so, likely broke a Girl Scout record. A spokesman for the organization says they don't actually know what the national record is for cookie sales, but agrees that Sharpe did an "amazing" job.
An accomplishment like that requires help, and Sharpe had plenty of it in her troop-leader and mother, Pam. The pair set up shop on a street corner and business boomed. "We were always there; we never closed," Pam Sharpe said. "At one point, Jenny got really sick, and we did shut down early, and we heard about it the next day."
All told, Jennifer's Troop 813 raised about $21,000 from cookie sales -- enough to pay for their 10-day-trip to Europe later this year. But Jennifer's mom says the real reward is in the positive effect cookie selling has had on her daughter. "It's made her really confident," she said. "I remember when she first started selling, she was very shy and quiet, and you had to push her out to talk to customers, but now she's right out there, first to the door."
That is a truly awesome accomplishment and Jennifer deserves all the attention she's getting for this. But I would like to ask the good people of Dearborn a question: Did you eat all those cookies already? If not, let's talk.
This year, Sharpe sold an incredible 17,328 boxes of everyone's favorite cookies and in doing so, likely broke a Girl Scout record. A spokesman for the organization says they don't actually know what the national record is for cookie sales, but agrees that Sharpe did an "amazing" job.
An accomplishment like that requires help, and Sharpe had plenty of it in her troop-leader and mother, Pam. The pair set up shop on a street corner and business boomed. "We were always there; we never closed," Pam Sharpe said. "At one point, Jenny got really sick, and we did shut down early, and we heard about it the next day."
All told, Jennifer's Troop 813 raised about $21,000 from cookie sales -- enough to pay for their 10-day-trip to Europe later this year. But Jennifer's mom says the real reward is in the positive effect cookie selling has had on her daughter. "It's made her really confident," she said. "I remember when she first started selling, she was very shy and quiet, and you had to push her out to talk to customers, but now she's right out there, first to the door."
That is a truly awesome accomplishment and Jennifer deserves all the attention she's getting for this. But I would like to ask the good people of Dearborn a question: Did you eat all those cookies already? If not, let's talk.
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 5)
5-18-2008 @ 4:47AM
MrDewUGood said...Your Correct John Casy I am Wondering how many Blow Jobs she had to give to sell all them Nasty cookies
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5-18-2008 @ 11:15AM
melissa said...My 3 troops do not 'just wait for money to walk to them' There is ALOT more that goes into our booth sales than there was in me walking around my neighborhood in the 1970s with a booklet selling door to door. Each girl is to go home and research prior to the entire sale what kind of trip they would like to go on with the cookie sales, this includes a few steps.. first how much it would cost per person, are there group rates that can apply? How would we get there? Would we need to provide our own meal? then to figure out how much that would cost for ALL the girls to attend. With that price they are to figure out how many boxes of cookies that would be considering that each box can bring them between 60 and 75 cents.
Our town is not blocks set up like my neighborhood was growing up, these days the homes are very large and most have dogs outside. I as a leader for the safety of my kids do not recommend door to door sales of people they do not know. I tell our girls their safety means more to me than doing a sale at all. First they are to go to family and friends and never go alone. Then we as a troop will make the difference up with booth sales... again a process made to pick the place
Each girl is to have imput in where they should set up shop (much like in real life where a restaraunt owner scopes out where would be more profitable, or someone wishing to open a deli..ect) They are to bring ALL their ideas to the table, in which THEN we go by popular vote... so I can see where you were unaware of how much work does go into a booth sale from each child. I know in the 70's when I was a child none of this process was EVER mentioned, it was go sell cookies period.
If each leader followed the program Girl Scouts set out for them, it would not be something that simple as getting money, ALOT of effort is to go into the preparation of the sale to prepare them adulthood.
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