Her mom, Kimanne Hotra, would spend hours after school knocking on doors in Rochester, selling thousands of boxes of cookies during her time in Girl Scouts. Speaking of family, Sabrina comes by her cookie selling prowess naturally. Sabrina’s family stores her cookie haul, coming in at 840 in the initial selling period, in the garage. Sabrina categorizes her cookie order sheets based on sale locations - church, homeschool group, neighborhood - to ease the delivery process, which can be overwhelming when hundreds of cookie boxes suddenly land on a Girl Scout family’s doorstep. “And if they don’t want any cookies, I say they can give (cookies) to the military.” “I say, ‘Hi, my name’s Sabrina, would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?’” she said. Sabrina HotraTwigger, 9, of Webster has her neighborhood cookie selling spiel down to a T. While some Girl Scout parents peddle their daughters’ sweet treats (or their sons’ Boy Scout popcorn) at work, most of the cookies sold by Rochester’s top sellers are bought by the girls’ friends, family and neighbors. But many girls sell more cookies after that, and Girl Scouts can continue taking orders for cookies in the coming weeks. Sale numbers in this story are from initial orders that girls submit in early February, and include gluten-free cookie orders. The average cookie sale per year for a local Girl Scout is about 155 packages, with Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties and Caramel Delites as bestsellers, said Mary Thran of Girl Scouts of Western New York in an email.
She sold 746 boxes in the initial selling period, and reaching 1,000 boxes will earn her a week of Girl Scout camp at Camp Seven Hills in Holland, Erie County. “I picked my goal because I wanted to see how high I could sell,” said Mackenzie Sutton, 11, of Churchville, who blew her original goal of 500 boxes sold out of water. They’re organized, focused on their goals and determined, even through snowy weekends spent knocking on neighbors’ doors. Girl Scout cookie-selling season, which is in its 100th year, is practically a sport for these girls. You might think you set your colleague or neighbor’s daughter up for a banner Girl Scout cookie season with the piles of Thin Mints and Caramel Delites you ordered.īut you’re probably wrong, at least if you ordered from certain Girl Scouts in Monroe County who’ve make it their mission to reach the stratosphere of cookie selling - which for them means between 750 and 1,200 boxes sold this year. Watch Video: Girl Scout 8-year-olds sell mountains of cookies
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