POTTSTOWN PA – The season for Girl Scout cookie sales is officially upon us.
Members of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania began their annual sales drive Thursday (Jan. 16, 2025), scouting officials report. They’ll sell in person, door-to-door, or at booths set up at local stores and other locations in Montgomery, Berks, and Chester counties through March 9 (Sunday).
This year’s cookie assortment includes 9 varieties: Adventurefuls, Toast-Yay!, Lemonades, Trefoils (formerly known as Shortbreads), Thin Mints, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwich, and gluten-free Caramel Chocolate Chip. If you’re a fan of Toast-Yay!, stock up; the scouts report this is its last year of availability.
Cookies are sold by the package for $5 each, with the exception of the gluten-free Caramel Chocolate Chip at $6.
Representatives claim the cookie sale is “the largest girl-led entrepreneurial program in the world,” and does more than raise funds. Scouts also “learn invaluable skills, including goal setting, money management, decision-making, people skills, and business ethics.” They earn scouting honors, too: badges for Cookie Business, Financial Literacy, and Entrepreneur.
Sale Proceeds Stay Local
Additionally, according to officials, “proceeds from every package sold stay local,” and each troop chooses which activities its sales will benefit. That means scouts doing the selling in part determine their own rewards for their efforts.
Across the nine-county region served by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, it says, more than 25,000 girls are anticipated to participate in some form of scouting experience this year.
Both scouts and volunteers arrived Jan. 8 (Wednesday) at the scouts’ Shelly Ridge Service Center in Montgomery County to help unload tractor-trailers stocked with more than 5,000 pre-ordered cases of cookies. They were distributed to local troops during the past week.
That amount represented just a small portion of the more than 170,000 cases to be spread across the nine-county scouting region.
Photos provided to Travels With The Post by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
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