I brought my daughter’s cookie form to work. But to be fair, I didn’t push selling cookies. I just put the order form in the kitchen for people to buy some if they wanted to and put a date on it to let them know when I would be taking the form down. Some people bought, and some didn’t. I don’t think you should put pressure on co-workers to buy this kind of thing.
The irony is, last year, when I didn’t do this, I had people mad at me because they wanted cookies!
That said, I also went door-to-door with my daughter and let her do the whole sale pitch thing. I had to clarify things because, at 7-years-old, she’s not exactly the best at remembering details like which cookies have the least amount of sugar or how many are in each box. We also did booth sales in front of a grocery store (where I had both girls at the booth figure out the prices and change). I kind of just stood there and watched the money box and listened in to make sure they were getting the math right.
I think it’s good for the girls to do most of the selling on their own (for the experience and learning that goes along with it), but, like I said, I think some of my co-workers would have killed me if they didn’t get a chance to buy Thin Mints two years in a row! For what it’s worth, my mom used to bring my cookie form to her work too back in the day (and I also did door-to-door, etc.)
