Product Sale

This year's Spring Product Sale program theme is "Treasure Your Mind...Treasure Your Health." The program offers fun and exciting activities focused on healthy living. The sale of nuts, candy and magazines help to support local Girl Scout troops. The sale also helps to support local council sponsored girl programs, including our camps. The program provides experiences for girls in the areas of sales, finances, presentations and teamwork.

What’s for sale?

Eleven high quality food items and one candle set all at a great price.

7 oz. Cranberry Nut Mix in pop-top can for $5

12 oz. Gummi Berries in pop-top can for $5

11 oz. Chocolate Covered Raisins in pop-top can for $5

6.5 oz. Dark Chocolate Covered Pretzels in pop-top can for $5

8.75 oz. Malted Milk Balls in pop-top can for $5

8 oz. Salsa Mix in pop-top can for $5

5 oz. Peanut Butter Dreams in gift box for $5

5 oz. Pecan Clusters in gift box for $5

8 oz. Whole Cashews in pop-top can for $7

10 oz. Cashew Brittle in Girl Scout tin for $7

10 oz. Chocolate Covered Almonds for $7

Set of two scented candles for $7

Now there are FOUR ways for troops to earn money this spring.

1) Use the order card to take orders from family and friends for nuts, candy and the candle set. Troops earn $1 per item sold.

2) Your troop can also do booth sales from January 25-February 9, 2008. You can check out the items you want to sell from either the Batavia or Henrietta Program Centers, sell what you can and RETURN ANYTHING YOU DON’T SELL! Troops earn $1 per item sold.

3) Get new and renewal magazine orders from family and friends. Troops earn $2 per subscription or renewal. This can now be done ONLINE as well as with the order forms.

4) Fill out an address booklet with a minimum of seven complete and accurate addresses to receive $2 per booklet. (Maximum of 1 booklet per girl.)

Each section of this sale is optional. Based on the troops’ financial needs, the girls and leader should decide what parts of the sale in which they’d like to participate. The more parts, the more profit and more fun!

What’s in it for the girls?

The 2008 Activity Booklet helps girls to explore and develop self-esteem by focusing on how their minds, emotions and bodies combine to make them who they are. The Address Adventure Activity is an exciting USA Treasure Hunt in which girls learn about our nation's many wonderful treasures, while working as a team and setting goals.

NEW THIS YEAR: GIRLS GET TO GO SHOPPING FOR THEIR INCENTIVES USING POINTS EARNED SELLING NUTS, CANDY, AND MAGAZINES.

Girls can get all the prizes offered, or multiples of one or more – it’s their choice!

Girls sell nuts and candy using the order card.

Girls sell magazines using the catalog and online.

The total dollars sold for these products are added together. Points are assigned based on the

total dollars sold.

The girl uses the Girl Incentive Ordering Form and chooses how she wants to use her points.

The form gets handed in to the troop leader and the awards get ordered.

Click here to see all the great items available and the points needed to earn them.

There may be some situations where all the points are not used. These points are not transferrable to other girls in a troop.

NEW: Netiquette Program

Girls go ONLINE safely to learn email etiquette while requesting that friends and family members to go the QSP web site to order magazine, music and books online.

How it works…

1. Girls and their parents go to the QSP Stretch Your Mind web site and complete all the exercises. There will be a link to this web site from the www.gsgv.org home page.

2. Girls then send out twelve or more emails through the Stretch Your Mind website and earn the Netiquette patch. QSP will send the email on behalf of the Girl Scout. Girls and their families’ will be able to track their orders from their homepage. All orders that are received by February 17 count towards the girl’s incentives and troops will earn $2.00 per magazine sold. The parents will print off the web page showing these sales and submit them to the troop leader along with the nut and candy order card.

3. Family members can place their orders from the Netiquette website too. Girls will receive award points based on these sales too. Just print out these orders and hand in to the troop leader. You'll get your magazines much quicker this way!

Be Creative and do Booth Sales

We offer troops the opportunity to do no-risk direct sales and booth sales during the regular sales portion of this program. The dates for booth sales are January 25-February 9, 2008.

A troop will need to find their own location for the booth sale. Once you have the location, contact Lonna Cosmano at the Henrietta Program Center at lonnac@gsgv.org or April Boynton at the GLOW office at aprilb@gsgv.org. We will make an appointment for you to come in and pick up a case or two (depending on your sale) of our top selling items.

Click here to see a list of previous booth sale locations and the number of items sold per hour.

What will you be selling at the booth sale:

Gummi Berries

Choc Covered raisins

Malted Milk Balls

Salsa Mix

Whole Cashews

Chocolate Covered Almonds

You sell what you can and return the unsold items to us immediately after your sale. How can we do this? Whatever we have left over from your sales, we can distribute to troops once they place their friends and family orders. We just deduct what we have from the council order, and we don’t end up with extra product. Of course, if it’s the malted milk balls, we may keep few for ourselves!