Get your Girl Scout Cookies here!

(Otherwise titled Why I Am A Crappy, Irresponsible GS Mother.)

I thought we had a few more weeks of this cookie selling business. We hadn't really started yet because the official rules say they had to sell them while wearing their uniforms, and the only Girl Scout retailer within an hour's drive hasn't had any Daisy uniforms smaller than 10/12 each of the three times we've gone in. We finally ordered them online, paying waaay too much for expedited shipping, and planned to set up a little card table booth up the street on the corner (which gets a fair amount of traffic). Except that the weather has been awful, so I kept putting it off. I thought we had more time, plenty of time for it to stop raining, plenty of time for the temperature to rise 20 degrees to October normals. Days and weeks and oodles of time.

Um, apparently the cookie orders are due on Saturday. So we have about a day. Or a day and a half, maybe, depending on when I have to get them to the troop leader.

CRAP.

*Sigh.*

So here we go with the hard sell: You want Girl Scout cookies. You neeeeeed Girl Scout cookies. All the cool kids are eating them. They're only sold once a year (well, once in each region -- you may get them some other time where you live) so you'd better stock up (they freeze well for later)! Or get them out-of-season if your Girl Scouts sell them in the spring! Just close your eyes and picture them -- Samoas, Thin Mints, Tagalongs! Mmmmmmmm. Your mouth is watering. You are reaching for your wallet. YOU MUST HAVE THEM.

Right? How am I doing?

Let's have our actual Girl Scouts have a crack at it!

Uno says, "Please buy some cookies! We have all different flavors and they're so yummy. They're back from the '50s, sooo long ago. Well, wait, they didn't have ovens then -- but they're still delicious. You HAVE to try them. There are two new flavors: One is Dulce de Leche and one is Thank U Berry Munch. Then we have the Tagalongs, then we have the Thin Mints. So if you want to order them, just type us back and tell us which cookies you want and we'll fill that in for you and we'll turn this in by tomorrow. Thank you."

Dos says, "Hello. Would you like to buy some cookies? All you need is four dollars in a box! Thank you." (She means they cost four dollars per box.)

So yeah, each box sells for $4.00 -- the proceeds of which go toward activities, projects, and facilities for the girls in our council -- and you can buy them singly and/or in one of three bundles ($12 per bundle): Timeless Classics (Thin Mints, Trefoils, and Samoas); I Love Chocolate (Samoas, Tagalongs, and Thin Mints); and Cafe Companions (Thank U Berry Munch, Lemon Chalet Cremes, and Trefoils).

You can read more about each of the cookies here (including nutrition information -- though maybe you shouldn't read that if you're hoping the cookies are at all nutritious). Not all of the cookies listed there are sold in every region, though, so let me list for you the ones that we offer:

Lemon Chalet Cremes

Trefoils

Do-Si-Dos

Samoas

Dulce De Leche (NEW!)

Thank U Berry Munch (NEW!)

Tagalongs

Thin Mints

If you would like to order some (please, please, you know you want to) email me or leave me a comment. Or leave me a comment that you'd like to email me but don't have my email address, if that's the case and you'd rather do it that way. Payment isn't due until delivery, but when that time comes you can send it via PayPal or regular check. If anyone who lives far from us wants to order (and that's pretty much my entire blog readership, lol) I will ship them to you free of charge as my own donation to the Girl Scout cause, so you'll only be responsible for the actual boxes of cookies you order. And you'll get a package! So everybody wins!

Mmmmmm, Samoas....


~RCH~