Girl Scout Cookies

my daughters presale order was around 200. i will admit at least 50% came from my work. but i don't push them on people LOL - people love girlscout cookies and they come hunt me down !!

I was cookie mom last year too and I saw quite the range of sales :)

I think about 20-40 boxes is pretty normal for a kid. Anyone selling more than that, the parent is peddling them at work or something. The girl who sold the most in our troop last year, her mom is a HS teacher and just kept picking up more and more boxes to take to her classroom. Word got out amongst the students that she had the stash and she was selling them out of her room daily.

My daughter sold about 50 this year- most of those are assigned to friends/family, that my daughter actually approached or called, and then I threw in about 20 extra boxes I figure she'll try to sell them as we run into other relatives or she can ask the neighbors.

450 boxes is pretty insane. I mean, that's selling to about 100 people. What little kid knows 100 people? Her parents must have circulated the order for her at work.

We do take orders into work, both my job and hubs. the staff there know our family. and my dd handwrites a thank you note. Many people have told us that if they didn't buy from my DD they would buy them at booth sales so they are happy to give her the business even if she as a 9 yo isn't the one asking them to buy.

Also this is her 3rd year selling, it started earlier close to Christmas, and our weather was so bad, we really limited who we spoke to about it, but found that many people that ordered last year, came up and approached DD themselves and others did as well.
in our experience the cookies sell themselves. NOW if only they delivered and collected the money themselves. little joke there.

Dd was close to 200 last year and probably 250 this year. Our troop has 8 girls, the lowest 2 sellers buy 30 boxes, and most are around 100. We do not do booth sales so this is it.

I have to say this is the first year that it is starting to get to me that some girls are only selling 30 boxes, we never push them, and set a loose goal only of increasing sales from last year by 10 boxes. these girls didn't do that. and when I say girls I realize it's really more the parents. but when I see how easy it is to sell them and that people are asking dd for orders, then I wish they would try a little harder. especially since the all the girls equally share in spending the money we get from selling. the girls get to vote on an activity that they all enjoy and get to participate in, no matter how much they contributed to the fund.
I also would completely understand if there was a reason for the low sale, but these families have admitted they just don't want the hassle of counting, delivering and collecting.
there now I've vented to the mama's and will just smile sweetly when the girls come to pick up their cookies and enjoy the activity we do together.

I'm not sure the average for preorders. Our daughter sold just under 100 boxes and the majority was at her dad's office. We only sold to family and a couple of close friend neighbors because another Brownie beat our daughter to our neighborhood for sales.

Frankly, I don't have the time or interest in trying to deliver and collect money from the people who bought 450 boxes, especially those I don't know. What a lot of work! I think it's great other parents have that kind of time, but it's not in me.

my daughter sold 387 presales. My friend works at a car lot and she took my daughter there for a day and walked around and asked everyone in person. They said she can come every year but SHE has to sell them and she has to deliver them. we have done that for two years now.

My coworker and I bring our order form and daughters to work to sell them. (our daughers are in the same troop )

But i believe my daughter should participate in all of the selling. She is also a junior scout so she is older. (not sure if that makes a difference)
Once the booth sales start we sell alot. our troop divides the number sold at the booth by the girls who work that particular booth.
But we see a huge variety. Just depends. My daughter likes the prizes they give away and works very hard to earn them. (bummer for mom because I have to drive her there. lol)

many blessings

EDIT: and I must say cookie moms rock because that is a lot of work.

I am a Girl Scout leader for 9 girls and this year my troop sold 1350 boxes. It took me a couple hours to pick up all those cookies! Some sold as little as 50 and some sold hundreds.

My daughter is 5. She sold 98. She did not sell at hubby's work, and we only did half a block. Next year she will write a marketing piece up and sell at her dad's work. It will also hopefully not be so cold, so we can visit more neighbors, we didn't even get next door, and they owe me! I've spent 100 on their kids in the last two years! My mom sold a lot to her friends, or rather, her friends all said, we want cookies!

I think 75 is the average, this is what I was told.

Of course there IS an average. It's mathematical. You just need the proper numbers to plug in.