I just sent my daughter off to school with a small bag of tagalongs, you know, the girl scout cookies with chocolate outsides and peanut butter insides. 
Problem is that I snuck one 
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This box is going to be gone by 9 
Those are the best girl scout cookies!! I have made my way through 4 boxes already
Thin Mints. Nothing finer. I could eat boxes of them. Well at least until the chest pains start.
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Thin Mints. Nothing finer. I could eat boxes of them. Well at least until the chest pains start.
or until your bank account gives out.
They have a good product, there’s just not much of a product. Too bad they don’t even make $0.25 a box.
[quoteToo bad they don’t even make $0.25 a box.
I have to agree that $3.50 per box is expensive and that the amount in each box has gone down but the troops actaully receive $0.55-$0.60 per box. Our troop of three girls sold over 480 boxes this year and we recieved $0.60 per box. 
Samoas are the first to go in our house. 
Samoas are my ultimate weakness! I couldn’t find any troops selling All-Abouts this year. The shortbread with the chocolate coating on the one side…I miss them! 
I’m just glad they don’t have the Lemon Pastry Creams anymore. I would buy 5 or 6 boxes of those things and they wouldn’t last me a week.
Frozen Thin Mints!! 
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tagalongs, you know, the girl scout cookies with chocolate outsides and peanut butter insides.
My all time favorite cookies
what happened to when the kids went door to door? Now just the parents bring a sign up sheet to work with them. It has become the parents responsibility to sell them.
I only say this because I dont know any young kids in girl scouts and I have been craving those cookies for years!!!
when they were $2 or $2.50 I used to buy 10, 12 14 boxes of them.. now at their current price NONE.. they have priced themselves out of business. and if the place where they buy them keeps raising the price.. they need to find a new baker.. instead of just paying the price raise year after year..
because I am not the only one.. and there are a ton less Girl Scouts nowadays. . so I can’t for the life of me, understand how they can continue to give less in the box and raise the price year after year..
its simple economics.. raise the price and sell less. and less salesmen, less sales..
its time that some one does the math.
Old Rat!
For heavens sake, you’re worried about how much product you get on a donation to the girl scouts?
So years ago you’d spend up to $35 a year on 14 boxes but now you won’t buy any.
I think you’re missing the point.
Same thing when kids come around selling cookie dough or popcorn tins, or christmas wreaths, or magazines. Do we really need them? Or do we get them to support the organizations they belong to?
It’s not about what’s good for Old Rat.
I don’t buy popcorn or wreaths.. ever..
but I always bought Girl Scout cookies.. and I am not alone in my feelings. sales are down.. and they know it..
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what happened to when the kids went door to door?
Then all the child predators started showing up. I sure wouldn’t want my daughter invited into some strangers house these days.
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