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Cubicle Life, In Remembrance, What's On the Menu? · January 27, 2010

Do the Girl Scouts Still Go Door-to-Door Anymore?


What about Avon calling?

I have noticed during the last several years, at least in my area of the county, my doorbell doesn’t ring much. I hardly ever get a door-to-door salesman. As a a matter of fact, I haven’t had one in years approach my door.

I get so little play at my door that the Jahovah’s Witnesses don’t even come over to share their Watchtower magazines. I am not feeling the love where solicitation is concerned. What’s a girl to do?

And now that it’s Girl Scout cookie time, I am really staring hard at my door hoping that it would ring so I could enjoy some if its decadent goodness that is the Girl Scout cookies. But alas, no knock at the door, no doorbell ring.

Now before you scoff at me, I know I can buy them online. And I know that a lot of times, the Scouts congregate in from of the market or super center to vie for our attention and Benjamin’s. But the art, the true art of Girl Scout cookie season, is when they infiltrate your neighborhood and go door-to-door trying to outsell their friends. It’s not the same when a pushy Scout bombardes me as I am walking out of the store with the cart or shopping online. The experience just isn’t the same!

Whoa is me!

I don’t live in a violent neighborhood. So why don’t they show us any love? If someone could answer this question please, maybe I could have some peace.

Do the Scouts come to YOUR door? Do the Jehovah Witnesses give you their monthly publication even though you act as if you aren’t home. These things never happen to me anymore.

I feel left out! *sighs*


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Comments

  1. Andii says

    January 27, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    I haven't had a girl scout come to my door in years. In fact, in the last 10 years I believe I've had ONE trick-or-treater, and ONE religious representative – and both of those were at my mother's house. I believe in that house, the driveway was the put-off. Extremely long, and almost vertical. It wasn't worth the effort of getting up the driveway.

    In my current home, the fact that I live in a secure apartment building where only the people who live on my floor can access my apartment might have something to do with the lack of door-knockin'-love. I get it at work instead. The parents who work in my building will escort their young'un around the building collecting donations or purchases of chocolate and cookies.

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    • Dannigyrl says

      January 27, 2010 at 7:18 pm

      My house looks so warm and inviting. LOL. But they avoid it like the plague. My whole neighborhood. It's weird I think!

      Reply
  2. Malenga says

    January 27, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    I've had a couple of neighbor kids come by selling candles and whatnot for school, but no Girl Scouts. The last few years, I've bought cookies from work, where a coworker will bring in the order form for her daughter.

    I think part of it might be that times have changed, as far as safety is concerned. I don't know that I'd want my daughter knocking on strangers' doors. YMMV.

    Reply
    • Christopher Gerlt says

      March 29, 2021 at 10:51 am

      Times actually haven’t changed. That’s just it. If anything, there are fewer abductions now than there were in previous generations but stranger danger is overrated. Most strangers are just nice/good people you haven’t met yet.

      Reply
  3. Reads4Pleasure says

    January 28, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Part of it is a safety issue, the other part is there aren't as many troops as there used to be due to the lack of leaders. When my daughter was in grade school I really wanted her in Brownies. I actually had to sign up to be a leader and coerce other parents to assist me. We stayed at the school for 2 years and the troop disbanded when we left because no one else would step up to the plate.

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  4. Reads4Pleasure says

    January 28, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Part of it is a safety issue, the other part is there aren't as many troops as there used to be due to the lack of leaders. When my daughter was in grade school I really wanted her in Brownies. I actually had to sign up to be a leader and coerce other parents to assist me. We stayed at the school for 2 years and the troop disbanded when we left because no one else would step up to the plate.

    Reply
  5. Bob says

    March 8, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    I think it’s a new girl scout policy. Kids are frequently selling stuff, magazines, food, miscellaneous stuff from catalogs. I think they usually are doing it for school. But for some reason, girl scouts don’t come selling their cookies anymore. I always have to turn the kids away, because I don’t trust the schools to deliver anymore. I wish I could make up for it by buying a dozen girl scout cookies, but that can’t happen.

    You can’t buy girl scout cookies online. I checked.

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  6. Cat says

    February 26, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    I had one come to my apartment but now that I’m in a house I have had none. I get on Facebook and see the parents selling them for them posting they will deliver but only come to your door only. I’m not to happy about that I love when they give the little sales pitch and I’ll buy several boxes just cause they are out doing the work. Last year I bought $60 worth and tipped the little girl just for going out and doing it.

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  7. Krystal Canales says

    January 25, 2020 at 3:13 pm

    As a few have mentioned it is a safety issue. 40 years ago a 7 year old girl Joan D’Alessando was brutally murdered by a neighbor a few house down from her home while attempting to sell her girl scout cookies. I believe this had a great deal to do with it. It is such a sad story.

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    • Christopher Gerlt says

      March 29, 2021 at 11:18 am

      I’ll say it again, those things are rare. The mainstream news media loves to spread fear. They’ve been doing that since the beginning of time. This was 40 years ago, too. Children are actually more safe now than they were when we were kids. Stranger danger is overrated.

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