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It is time to be progressive and change this. Why do Girl Scouts get to sell cookies and Boy Scouts have to sell popcorn? Boy Scouts would make much more if they sold cookies. | ||
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A Grateful American |
They could make even more selling weed. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Or pimping girl scouts  | |||
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safe & sound |
Our Scouts sell candybars and raffle tickets for meat. | |||
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| A Grateful American |
I originally typed; "selling Brownies"...  "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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In PA in the late 60s early, 70s we made and sold sub sandwiches couple times a year. They were very popular and very good. | |||
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Sound and Fury |
I complain about this frequently. Not only did we sell popcorn, but it's a PITA, the program is not run very well, and the vendor sucks. But selling cookies is an integral part of the GS program. Fundraising for BSA is not. Scout units can do pretty much any type of fundraising that's acceptable to their charter org, and most do. "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989 Si vis pacem para bellum There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Feeding Trolls Since 1995 | |||
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PopeDaddy |
FWIW, Boy Scouts don’t sell popcorn in my troop... The cub scouts do. Boy Scouts here sell Christmas wreaths and vol8nteer for some road races manning stages, etc In kind....The running organization dontaes some money for the troop.. 0:01 | |||
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| Moving cash for money |
Less than 20% of cookie sales goes directly to the individual Girl Scout. Most goes to funding Council operations. Popcorn should generate about 30-40% back to the Boy Scout and if the local BSA Council does a camp card program usually the return is 50%. "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout" R.I.P. R.A.H. Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga NRA Basic Rifle Instructor Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Adult/Child/Infant Instructor Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Instructor | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
What do they sell? | |||
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Sell popcorn outside a weed shop. | |||
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| You don’t fix faith, River. It fixes you.  |
I'm surprised that hasn't caught on in Colorado yet! ---------------------------------- "If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.." - Thomas Sowell | |||
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The IRS has said this is illegal, and we're working on figuring this out with our Scout troop. A not for profit can not engage in fundraising for individuals within the group. All moneys must be split (mostly) evenly among all participants in the not for profit. Those who have (and will) get caught doing this will loose their not for profit status, and the parents of the individual scouts may owe taxes. It's BS in my opinion, but just an FYI for those involved in these types of things.
They have done that. This is what one group did local to me.  | |||
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Surely you do not mean to the individual Scout, but to the troop? __________________________________________________ If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit! Sigs Owned - A Bunch | |||
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That was funny the pic of selling cookies outside of weight watchers. I am sure they were the mint cookies that did not exceed the daily caloric intake set by Weight Watchers. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Remember reading something about when they started. The Girl Scouts used to sell chickens instead of cookies. | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
Hunting over bait. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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In the 80s and early 90’s my Troop sold Christmas trees. I don’t ever recall fund raising as a cub. Both my kids sell popcorn and since I’m the treasurer I see the numbers. 5-6 years ago we had some motivated scouts and we sold 40k worth a few years in a row. The. It was down to around 10k worth and last year back up to 25k. The pack gets better return per dollar sold when the scout sells online. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
With the advent of these, I no longer have a need for the cookies that the Girl Scouts pimp in the fall.  | |||
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Yes Troops, GSA is very particular about that, as is the IRS. "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout" R.I.P. R.A.H. Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga Ooga Chakka Hooga Hooga NRA Basic Rifle Instructor Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Adult/Child/Infant Instructor Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Instructor | |||
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