Honey Boo Boo Sells Her Girl Scout Cookies On Her Facebook Account **UPDATE** COOKIE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN

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   Tracy
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 4:16 am

   Well, the family picture will remind folks why they shouldn’t eat the cookies…

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   PlathAddict
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 4:45 am

   Granted, it has been a while since I was in the scouts, but my recollection is that the whole troop will benefit from her being able to sale so many cookies. The troop as a whole will get recognition as having sold the most in their area. And, yes she will be recognized for selling the most in her troop, but all of the girls benefit because of her high sales.

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   Lizbot
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 6:34 am

   @Tracy, I had to give you kudos for that one — made me lol!

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   lindaw205
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 9:09 am

   Her troop will get a percentage of the sales and can use it to fund camping trips and such. At least that’s what we did with out money.

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   Spababe
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 10:29 am

   The entire troop will benefit by her sales. I commend her for what she is doing. I like the show and find it entertaining. Some of the things they do I don’t approve of but hey it could be edited out also but then again I also love Duck Dynasty.

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   Kayla
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 11:29 am

   This is horribly wrong. You can’t sell cookies like this. I know I as well as many people will be reporting her. This is taking away from all of girl scouts and doesn’t represent girl scouts in anyway!

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   chaosbutterfly
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 11:30 am

   Not fair?
   Not fair?!
   This is capitalism at its finest, Girl Scouts of AMERICA.
   This is what we Americans do, we get on TV and become famous for nothing really, and then we use that dubious fame to get even more things.
   Actually working hard to acquire things is for suckers and poor people.

   And at least she doesn’t get to keep the money, unlike folks like the Kardashians and Snookie.

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   labowner
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 12:13 pm

   Good – they make enough money from the show.

   By the way, does anyone know if the State of Georgia goes after families to make them repay any assistance given to them?

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   crankyguy
   Posted February 28, 2013 at 12:19 pm

   I used to work in a government office, and my department head made all of us, about 30 if memory serves, buy at least two boxes of his daughter’s Girl Scout cookies. Same thing for United Way — you WILL sign up for payroll deductions since he got an award if every single one of us signed up.

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    Spababe
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 12:52 pm

    Do you know for a fact that they receive assistance. I don’t think they do. Sugarbear works quite hard to support them.

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    crankyguy
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    I doubt that June receives assistance now, but I bet she did before she got her own show.

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    labowner
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    Spa she has three baby daddies and Sugar didn’t enter the picture until 2004.

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    Spababe
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    Isn’t he now taking care of all of them except the new baby. I thought that’s the way it came across. I don’t think they are getting assistance they are only trying to give back because at one time they were helped. If the baby is getting assistance it’s because she is entitled to it.
    I feel that they are not rich with money but rich in spirit and are a caring helping family. They aren’t selling their wares for their own profit. This is my opinion and I think June is doing the right thing by putting the girls money away.

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    Dashley
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 2:22 pm

    YAY! I can speak about this issue with some authority.
    I was a Girl Scout for years, and a Troop Leader for three years. So here’s the deal: In a $4 box of cookies, the troop itself earns $0.25 of the proceeds. That’s it. The rest goes to the council, the national org, and the bakery that manufactures the cookies.
    As for selling the cookies online, it is made VERY clear that you’re not allowed to do that. You can tell your FB friends that you’re selling them, and ask if they want any, but you’re not allowed to solicit strangers. We were told that rule is in place so that people don’t try to increase the price of the cookies, making a further profit. That way the price is uniform. Which also doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, because the price does vary a bit from area to area. But there’s also the loss of quality control in the shipping process, and the fact that people are paying more for a box of cookies in order to get them shipped.
    I doubt in this case they were inflating the price, but that doesn’t really matter because it’s so high-profile that GSA would HAVE to shut it down so that they weren’t making an exception for one girl just because she was famous.

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    carol
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    How is this any different from girl scouts selling their cookies in front of Safeway or at a BART station (SF bay area underground)? Or a parent of a girl scout promoting the sales on twitter (the mom happens to be a celebrity so she has a lot of follower)? Or a parent taking an order form and placing it in a break room at their office/work?

    Girl Scout cookies used to be good but they are rather disgusting now. Did you know they don’t use any chocolate in the Thin Mints or the peanut butter ones? Someone bought me a box of thin mints last year and I had to toss the box after eating two of the cookies. There is something so artificial about them and they left a waxy feeling in my mouth.

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    Spababe
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    I have a friend who sells GS cookies on FB for her daughters. Nothing wrong with it.

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    Clair
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    I read that HBB isn’t even a Girl Scout – she’s helping her friend sell them.

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    Spababe
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    I find nothing wrong with that at all. If it were any other person selling cookies I don’t think anything would be said.

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    Moli
    Posted February 28, 2013 at 6:25 pm

    Regardless the troop she is selling for is getting twenty-five cents for every box she sells/sold. As long as she nor her family are gaining anything financially I don’t see the problem. GSA is getting funds and will/would the troop.

    Where I’m employed we have frozen pizza,frozen cookies, candy, gift wrap and other crap pushed on us all the time. My daughter has to sell for her school and I don’t take anything to work. Kindergarten, First and now Second grade she calls everyone in my phone with our prepared script asking them to purchase…whatever she is selling. Even though I’m ok with Alana pushing Girl Scout cookies, I’m not ok with my child selling with my REAL help. She can sell what she can sell, its not my job to sell these items and she will not learn anything if I’m doing the work for her. You know what… she has become an awesome negotiator. No she hasn’t won the big prize, but she likes to call everyone(of course since their in my phone they most likely will buy from her) and the look of satisfaction on her face after a sale is priceless.

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    Lin
    Posted March 1, 2013 at 8:14 am

    Honey Boo Boo should instead call for a BOYCOTT of Girl Scout Cookies! Girl Scouts were caught in December PROMOTING PROSTITUTION as \decent employment\ for 10-year-olds. No joke. Just Google \WAGGGS Bali Global Youth Forum Declaration PDF\ and read yourself that Girl Scouts were on the Steering Committe for an event that not only wants free contraception and abortion for little girls without parental knowledge, they consider hooking a \right to work\ issue. DISGUSTING. Your cookie dollars work for evil purposes.

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    Tracy
    Posted March 1, 2013 at 8:43 am

    I always hated selling crap for school. I think my parents took the right approach — harass close family, friends, and known neighbors only. They absolutely would not allow me to go to people we didn’t know (even back in the day, there were too many weirdos to allow that). They never took shit to work. And if it was candy, they did what all loving parents do–they bought 8000 bars themselves! Damn, I miss them!

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    Elle
    Posted March 1, 2013 at 10:42 am

    In my troop growing up no one could beat one little girl. She would sell hundreds. Her parents owned the local grocery store. It never seemed fair because there was no way to compete. I think they have mini prizes along the way. Sell 25 get a cheap stuffed animal sort of way. In the end the whole troop got to go to a trip to Seattle we all won. When I went door to door in my neighborhood and she just had the order sheet taped up behind the register… It was hard to feel proud of myself for my work next to her. Of course now I am a grown up and realize in the scheme of things it wasn’t a big deal and I survived at the time though it was extra upsetting.

    I bet this was a hard choice for GS to make though. I mean good for them for trying to keep it fair but think of all that cookie money not being tapped into. And now I just want a cookie.

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    crankyguy
    Posted March 1, 2013 at 11:16 am

    Is anybody recapping the new TLC white-trash offering starting this Sunday? I’ m asking here because I suspect that the success of Honey Boo Boo is what inspired this. It’s called Welcome to Myrtle Manor and it’s about life in a South Carolina trailer park. Woo Hoo.

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    Spababe
    Posted March 1, 2013 at 11:36 am

    I saw the highlights of it, I may give it a try to see what it’s about. It’s good there is some TV now without all the reality HW garbage….and I do love my NJHW.