I took Sarah out yesterday because she was dying to sell cookies and since other girls in her troop were already going back for seconds she was behind. She does not like to be behind. She kept reminding me that I had promised to take her out and had not done that and wanted to know when we were going. Pushy I tell you.
Well, we sold a lot of cookies. One guy even rode by on his bike, saw that we were selling, went home to get his check book and came back and bought a case of cookies (that's 12 boxes) from us. He rode off with this huge box of cookies in hand. He said he needed all the cookies because he had a lot of kids, but then to find out he only has four and one isn't even living at home. So three kids, but they are teenagers. Something to look forward too, being eaten out of house and home.
There is a big difference between selling popcorn and cookies. People don't really want popcorn. They don't wait around for months for you to sell popcorn to them and nobody craves Boy Scout popcorn. It's a tough sell because it isn't cheap and the main reason you buy it is to support the scouts. However, people want Girl Scout cookies. They break their New Year's resolutions for them. They eat them by the boxful. People are so happy to see you when you come to the door to sell cookies, especially if you have them right then and they don't have to wait for them. Almost everybody buys at least one box when you go to their door. The things sell themselves.
But you still have to go door to door to sell them. Those kids that sell hundreds of boxes, they don't really sell them by themselves. Their parents sell a lot of them. When I was a kid I don't remember my parents selling cookies for me. My mom may correct me, but I seem to remember asking the people at church by myself and going door to door. My dad refused to take my order form to the office, as Charlie does, and I don't think my mom asked her friends to buy from me. I went to the neighbor's houses by myself or with a friend.
Now people sell them on Facebook and eBay and at work and all over the place and their kids have nothing to do with it. Even I sold about 15 boxes just by asking people in my class at the gym and Amanda's teachers if they needed cookies. All I said was, "If you need them, I have them", and that's pretty much all you need to say. I am the cookie queen.
Unfortunately Sarah doesn't see that part, so she wants to go out and sell them herself. That's fine, it's good for her, and she did a pretty good job. We went out for less than two hours and sold almost all the boxes she had. It was a pretty nice day so we enjoyed being out. And who could say no to this face anyway?
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