Take my Girl Scout cookies, please!
It happens every January: We commit to selling too many Girl Scout cookies, and the burden falls not on my girls, but on me and my husband.
In the first couple of days, the kids are thrilled to organize the cookies (nine varieties this year!) and go around the neighborhood selling ($3.50 a box). But then they tire of it. And we grown-ups do too.
We ask our co-workers and friends and relatives to buy cookies. And we still have cartons left.
We can return them to the troop leader, but then we would feel like we didn't do our duty, work hard enough, live up to Girl Scout ideals. So we will continue bugging everyone we know until they are gone.
Do you help your kids sell cookies? What's your strategy?
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