Friday, October 29, 2010

No Bake Cookies?

“Do you wanna buy something? My school is selling stuff and….” the little girl pressed the cookie catalogue into my confused arms.

I took it and inwardly groaned. It seemed like I dealt with kids selling stuff on a weekly basis. Just last week I forked over $15 for air freshener from a JROTC member. I was about to tell him no, but as the word formed on my lips I saw his shoulders slump and immediately felt guilty.

I guess it surprises me when people actually do the fundraisers. Truth be told, I throw all of Tommy’s out that he gets from school. I’d rather not knock on doors and beg people to purchase magazines. Instead I just send a check to the PTO.

But other kids come out in full force. Last year I bought a sausage from a boy who claimed that they tasted, “pretty cool.” (It didn’t taste cool at all, it tasted like wet bark.)

Maybe I’m too nice. It’s okay to say no, after all. I didn’t have to say yes to the overpriced cookies.

Only, I did.

I told the girl that I’d buy some sugar cookies and scribbled out a check.

See, I assumed the cookies would already be made. In the catalogue it showed perfect looking sugar cookies and I thought, yum, a Friday night snack. Or, you know, a whenever I felt like a cookie snack.

Imagine my surprise when the girl dropped off this:



“Um,” I said. “What is this?”

The girl blinked up at me. “Your cookies?” She stared at me as though Charlie Sheen were doing a jig on top of my head.

I stared at the container. “I thought they’d already be made.”

“You cook them.” The girl definitely thought I was a complete idiot.

“It’s just, the catalogue was a bit misleading. It showed the cookies already made and—”

But the girl wasn’t listening. She turned and started walking away, probably thinking that I was a complete nutter.

Fine then. We’ll see if I buy anything from her again.

I really need to learn to say no to the neighborhood kids. The next time someone bangs on my door asking me to buy an overpriced candle, I’m saying no.

If I’m asked to buy cookies, I’m going to—well, probably say yes, because HELLO who can say no to cookies? Especially Girl Scout cookies. Mmmm…but I’m going to make sure that they’re already MADE before I fork over the money.

So mark my words.

I’m going to remind myself that it’s okay to say no to things.

And I’ll do it.

Unless the kid is really cute.

Or starts to cry.

I don’t deal well with sobbing children.

41 comments:

  1. My son's school sold the cookie dough one year. I bought three tubs of the stuff. It was all consumed. Not one piece of dough saw an oven...

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  2. I would eat that cookie dough all up.

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  3. I hate those un-made cookies! The tubs would just sit in the freezer until they got freezer burn. Never once did they make themselves!

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  4. I am so glad kids in my neighborhood are older.. no door to door crap.

    At work its the parents I can say no too.. much easier.

    show us how they turn out.

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  5. Wet bark? This does not bode well for the sausage coming my way that I purchased from my kid's fundraiser! Thankfully, I squashed his dreams of going door-to-door by telling him no one would buy anything, but the sausage was my price to pay for that.

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  6. The raw cookie dough is wayyyy better than the baked stuff.

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  7. I'm thinking it would be good with a little ice cream. Maybe you could make a sugar cookie milkshake. That sounds good.

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  8. yea.. i HATE things like that too.. but then.. i CANNOT hardly EVER say no!!

    have a wonderful weekend!!!

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  9. That happened to me at work last year. Some mom brought in that catalogue for her kid and people buy them here in the office like crazy. I thought hmmm some treats at work sure would be nice. I'll hide them in my drawer and nibble on them whenever I want! Sounds good so I signed up for snickerdoodles.

    It came in a tub. a lid tight container. It meant I had to take it home and bake them myself!!

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  10. I have a lot of neighborhood kids coming up to my house with those fundraisers and I feel just awful telling them no. My other half is the money maker, but if I had money I would definitely buy their overpriced what nots.

    But of course I HAVE to buy Girl Scout cookies. Who can say no?! Have you noticed that the boxes have gotten smaller?

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  11. HaHaHa! I just blogged about my cookie purchase from my nieces a few days ago. I make an attempt to hide from the kiddos that come nocking on my door because I can't say no to them either lol

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  12. I am pretty sure my mom loathed helping us sell school fundraiser stuff and it was usually very overpriced. I hope the cookies are good though -- if nothing else I am sure the dough is yummy!

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  13. While I totally get your disappointment, I admit, I hate making cookie dough (and love it with ice cream, ha!) so even if the kid is NOT crying, but still offering me pre-made dough, then I'm likely not going to say No :-)

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  14. That frozen cookie dough stuff is AWESOME! I was running late for my parent info meeting on the Daisy Troop I was starting. I realized, at the last moment, that I needed to bring snacks. I honestly had no time to run to the market, but I had frozen dough in the freezer. I threw the cookies in the oven as I was getting ready, and they were ready in less than 15 minutes. I probably didn't allow enough time to cool, but who cares? The parents who awestruck that I made homemade cookies. Little did they know...

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  15. When I was in high school, it never bothered me to have people give a donation in place of actually buying something from me. In fact, I liked it more that way because I didn't have to go through the trouble of delivering their goods to them later! Try asking the kid how much profit they make off of each product sold (they usually tell the students this information, and it's usually five dollars or so per product), then give them that much. That way, you won't have to see them sad and you save the extra money!

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  16. i get sooo beaten down by them too...esp when you have a ton of kids at diff schools and they all decide to hit you at the same time. i agree...tell the parents..either we do fundraisers or just send a check to school haha

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  17. My kids are selling the cookie dough right now and have every sinlge year since they've been in school. I will not let them go around door to door selling it so I usually get suckerd into buying a whole buttload of that stuff and cramming in the freezer so that they can sell the number of items they need to get the free limo ride around town or the ice cream party at school! Ugghhh!!!
    On the upside, the cookies are usually pretty good once they're baked.

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  18. Get the kids to help you decorate them. No need to ask for help in consuming them.

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  19. LMAO you sound EXACTLY like me. EXACTLY.


    only um..... I would have all ready ate a spoonful of that dough.

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  20. I'd eat the dough and call it a win!

    But, I always say no to the kids...it gets easier. I really don't want $30 popcorn. I'm sure it's great, but I'd rather give them the $10 they make from it and move on.

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  21. That's one good thing about living in an apartment building-- no door-to-door nonsense.

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  22. I'd just attack that stuff with a spoon and skip right over the cooking nonsense. . .Cookie dough is almost as tasty as actual cookies. Go figure!

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  23. But the dough is the best part....

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  24. I bought a $20 can of caramel corn "with pecans and cashews" that was the worst tasting popcorn I've ever eaten, and had no visible signs of nuts. The Munch 'n Crunch from Target is better. But the kid was really cute, and his little sister was helping. Next year I'm only buying the cheapest thing they're selling.

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  25. What if you said "No Hablo Englesh?" IDK, how the hell do you spell that out???

    Don't worry, my face says sucker everytime they come around too :)))

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  26. Salmonella be damned. Cookie dough for everyone!

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  27. I hate when the fundraiser kids start coming around. I work with several kids in my church and they all try to hit me up to buy this and that. Ugh. I finally decided to just say no to everybody. That way no one gets hurt and I'm not buying unnecessary crap.

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  28. Telling kids no sucks so bad. I normally only buy from boy and girl scouts. If other people come knocking I typically ignore them... but how do you say no to JROTC? Those kids try hard.

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  29. I throw my kid's fundraiser catalogs away, as well. Then I buy the band booster and football cards from neighborhood kids who come knocking at the door. I wish I could say no. I always buy them, then forget I have them until I'm sitting in a restaurant they were good for and realize I could have saved a whole 10%.

    I also need to tell you today that you have re-addicted me to gymboree. My son had gotten too old for their stuff and then I saw all of the darling things you have and well, Dani now has a closet and some tubs busting with gymboree. Thanks for re-introducing me to gymbo, I'm sure my husband wouldn't thank you, though!

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  30. Oh yes...the dreaded fundraisers!

    But look! You've got that raw cookie dough! Nothing tastes better than that!

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  31. I remember selling cookies when I was in Brownies, except they were Girl Scout cookies - how confusing is that!

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  32. Somehow I sense you saying no in the future as being a remote possibility at best. ;) (I'd be the same way, though.)

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  33. I'd rather pay higher taxes than have to sell that crap for my kids. Ugh. I usually toss the sale literature, too. :P

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  34. Ugh, I am so sick of fundraisers. We're supposed to be selling cookie dough right now. The boys are all pissy cause I wont take them door to door.

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  35. Shoot, I just cut them off with, "My kid is selling that, too! Sorry!"

    Door slam.

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  36. Yeah, I can totally relate... My hub just forked out $17-- I AM NOT KIDDING for popcorn-- and we can't even eat popcorn... It's the same with wrapping paper (can't eat that either) and cheese and sausage sales... We really want to support the kids, but it's SO overpriced, and SO stuff we don't really want... Ick. It's tough being nice...

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  37. I bought a couple of those tubs of cookie dough a few years ago, too. They're good, but you do have to bake them. Girl Scout cookies are definitely the way to go. Just open and stick 'em on your hips and butt and thighs where they're going to end up anyway!

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  38. I love when my out of town friends call and ask me if I'd like to buy the cookies and sausages fromt heir rugrats... as if they have any intention of then actually paying postage to send me the stuff. Sheesh.
    jj

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  39. hubby ordered these from a guy at work...the dough is better than the made cookie...so I'm not a fan.

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  40. I'd hold out until you got the beaters to lick too...

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