Cookie Booths and Cookie Season Recap

In our council, Juliettes can not do cookie booths by themselves. The official booths are scheduled in eBuddie and the rules are at least 2 girls and 2 adults. I was advised that we could, however, set up a small stand. We have been taking advantage of that! My little Brownie managed to stay very busy every weekend in April by either setting up her stand or participating in booths with other troops (also allowed).

Her initial pre-order turn-in was for 240 boxes & 6 boxes sold through her digital cookie site (her goal was 235), and I thought we were done...

I didn't get pictures of every stand that we set up, or the individual deliveries and door to door sales, but generally this is what April looked like:

4/2/2016 Booth with Troop 6081

   

4/5/2016 Stand at Moose's Country Store

This is where we were done with all of our pre-order deliveries and sold out of cookies. We had gotten several more orders, so we had to go to the Cookie Cupboard to fill them. We also got enough to set up one more stand.

4/9/2016 Cookie Cupboard (pick up 7 more cases)

We set up what was to be her last stand on the 9th. We sold out in a little over an hour and got a ton of orders for delivery, so we had to go get more cookies on the 16th.

4/16/2016 Cookie Cupboard (pick up 14 more cases)

This is when my inner struggle took place... We don't have a troop to help us get rid of extra cookies, so we are personally financially responsible for any cookies we sign for. I sat my Little Brownie down and explained the situation to her and gave her a choice. We could just pick up what we had orders for and be done with cookies for the year or we could continue to set up stands. She told me she was having fun and wanted to continue. She showed me the prizes and the additional $75 resident camp incentive she could earn if she got to the next level of 500 boxes. So I took a deep breathe and we picked up 14 more cases...

4/22/2016 Stand at Moose's Country Store

4/23/2016 (morning) Booth with Troop 6081

4/23/2016 (afternoon) Recruiting Booth at Cabot
Annual Strawberry Festival with Troop 6533. The
girls spent the afternoon talking to other young
 ladies about joining Girl Scouts. The Assistant Leader
gave my Little Brownie the 2016 cookie booth patch
 for helping to sell cookies as well.

On 4/29/2016 we had our final stand at Moose's Country Store. We sold out with the exception of some orders to be delivered later that week. (I had to fill those by purchasing 25 boxes from 2 other troops because awards had already been finalized). Her official total for 2016 cookie season is 556 boxes (not including the 25 boxes for orders that our troop friends helped us fill.)

By participating in Cookie Booths with our friendly host troops, my Little Brownie was able to earn the 2016 Cookie Activity Pin. In a sad and ironic twist, my Little Brownie's membership number was in eBuddie twice (not supposed to be possible), and she was listed under 2 different service units. Her cookie sales were split between those 2 service units, so as far as I know, she is only getting the rewards for 284 boxes in our service unit. She will be getting a trophy at the Cookie Brigade and Bridging ceremony for the entire 556 boxes.

I usually purchase one box of each kind for the freezer for next year, but I had a case of Samoas stolen out of my car, which I had to pay for. We ended up with 2 boxes each of Rah-Rah Raisins and Toffee-tastics for ourselves. C'est la vie...

I'm sooo glad that's over with! Hope your cookie season was great!