See when I was younger I was GREAT at selling anything (serious ask my mom) I was the #1 cookie seller 3 years in a row for girl guides. I REALLY wanted this 10 speed bike they were giving away to the #1 chocolate bar seller for our gymnastics team to raise money for nationals and I ROCKED!! I remember wearing my white k-way jacket (you remember the ones you could fold into a pouch and they clipped around your waste?) Yeah I would head out in my little white jacket and my boxes of chocolate and I would work the neighborhood. If you told me to come back I would write it down in my little purple notebook and head back the next day. I ended up wining the 10 speed bike it was so pretty (and it got stolen the next day) but that's besides the point. I have always been maybe a bit competitive.
I used to score 100% on my dance exams.
I would practice ALL THE TIME to compete for gymnastics.
I won the opportunity 2 years in a row to train in the summer with The Royal Winnipeg Ballet Group.
Yeah an over achiever.
Ha ha maybe that's why when the girl guide troop came by when I was at the MIL I bought 1 box of every cookie they were selling (7 boxes in total). It really did bring back fond memories! lol
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So, did you ever consider a career in sales or marketing?
Dang girl! You did rock!
I was a slacker. I hated participating. In anything.
I know that I only sold enough boxes so I could go to Girl Scout Camp, which was an insanely amount of boxes. I think I presold, half to my family and then my mom bought the rest and I had to sell them outside the supermarkets and around the neighborhood. It was great when I was little, but as soon as I hit 12, it was really hard to sell so many boxes...they always bought from the younger girls!
Okay - here it comes... a Girl Scout cookie craving... I'm glad I've got a box hiding in my freezer.
On the flip side, I never let my kids sale door to door because I hate it when kids come to my door wanting me to buy over priced trash. What I did instead was find out how much profit the group wanted the kids to make and wrote them a check to show my support. In fact I just wrote my last hundred and fifty dollar check last week. Thanks for reminding me, I forgot to check it off the list of lasts for me and public school!
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