This is Cookie Cupboard 9

A  well sugared,  cookie selling machine.     The  girls and their volunteers  of  S.U. Communities:  235,  241,   246,   253,   parts of   240 and 244 .  

Thank you for visiting my community cookie volunteer run website.  This site may not contain all the latest information - so please be sure to check girlscoutsgwm.org and subscribe to The Outlook volunteer newsletter.

For orders and pickup details,  please scroll down the page or click  Troop Orders  on the green bar.  If there is a problem with your order it will be noted there.  If you are looking at this on your phone, touch the little square on the green bar for the section menu.  Touch it again to close the menu.  You may have to scroll side to side to see the whole schedule chart.                                                                                                                               

Location is:       A mystery until  January 2025 - we hope it will be a wonderful spot like this year was. 

Contact me by phone or text  802-363-5565,  or by email:    cookiecupboard9@gmail.com

The cupboard is:     Done for another year.   

There may be still time to plan late booths, check in with council about how that works.   Think about having a Solar Eclipse Mint booth.   

If you have cookie booth ponchos or aprons checked out please remember to return them.

Monday and Wednesday cupboard times are for returns and small orders.   This allows council to move the supply around to different cupboards to match the orders placed for the coming weekend booths.  Please order by Monday Night for a Friday pickup. 

Remember to order your mixed extra packages/boxes in units of 12.  

If you have any damaged boxes, you may bring them to me to exchange. 

Cookie costumes and Booth Aprons are available to borrow for your booth.  Either reserve the one you want by emailing me or just ask when you pick up.

THANK YOU to all the Adult Volunteers and Parents who help the girls sell cookies !

A Big Thanks to Keith and his crew at the warehouse for handling our cookies.  For all his assistance to us during cookie time,  passing out the initial order to those communities who pick up here in Essex and providing our cupboard space in the past. 

1/12/2019 -   Here's a link to some recipes using GS cookies:  

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/Cookie-Recipes.html?fbclid=IwAR2ukbbMtiad42KFT5_S16baCaWCfelKHLKppLb-FT700ZnHN0FDUM4JkDs

For Slide Show,  the first  five years of the cookie cupboard - What Can A Cookie Do,    click on this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byf7jq0OFFtIME9qSWFKVFk2a2c/view?usp=sharing

If anyone has some pictures of the Girls in action,  and would like to share,  please send them to me so I can include them.  We need to make this slide show more interesting than stacks of cookie cases.....

Collected Cookie Sales Data from Booths 

At the end of each cookie booth PLEASE fill in the section in dBudde for your booth data

The links below are a sampling - not all troops turned in data.   If more troops turn in booth data,  our sales predictions can be more accurate.      It is also a huge help to Council for predicting how much to order from the baker.    

Click on these links: 

 Booth Report Form

Booth Data From 2016

Booth Data From 2017

Booth Data From 2018

Booth Data From 2019

Booth Data From 2020

At this point we need to collect new data for booths in our area,  if each troop fills in their booth reports in eBudde, I'll be able to collect it from each SU and post it here in the future.

Please Order  by the  Night before for a pickup the next day.  

If you are having problems with eBudde, check in with your SU product sales volunteer or contact Council Customer Care - customercare@girlscoutsgwm.org      Below is a general guide for using the cupboard - you can always contact me.

As soon as you have planned your Booth times,  place your order into eBudde and enter the pickup date to be the Friday before or a couple of days before your booth date.  Order early,  but don't pick up too early.    If you need to cancel your booth,  let me know (text or email) so I can send your cookies out with someone else.    

Please keep these things in mind when placing a cupboard order:

Always Check Cupboard Status and The Troop Orders below,  before coming to the cupboard.

• I will post notes for your troop number letting you know that your order is ready to be picked up - which would either be Wednesday or Friday if the order is placed by Monday .  Monday cupboard time is mostly for returns.  If I have enough supply, extras and small booth orders may be picked up then.

• Cupboard hours are  M   from 11:00 - 6:00,  W from 11- 6:00  and   F from 11:00 -7:30   Let me know if you can't make those times, we'll try to schedule something else.

• Very important - Fill in your contact information on your cupboard order - Name, Phone Number, eMail address.

• ORDERING : To ensure we have enough cookies for everyone's booth across the council and yet not have cookies left at the end of the sale, Please place your orders for your booth as soon as you know the date of your booth or by the Monday before your scheduled booth so it can be picked up on Friday.  Council places our cupboard restock order on Tuesday according to the orders placed on Monday .  If  orders come in after this, it throws off the reorder schedule and I may not have enough supply for you.  This also gives me time to get them ready for you and find more if there is a shortage. This is one of the reasons for prompt returns, so they are back and can go out again for someone else next booth.   As an occasional exception -  We don't want any spontaneous,  short notice  booth sale opportunities to be passed up,  please feel free to check with me for availability of cookies.   If you are running  out of cookies at booth way before the end of the booth time,  call or text me,  I may be available to get more supply to you. 

• RETURNS: If you have cookies left from a booth sale and wish to return them, you may bring back 25% of what you checked out for that booth (your last order, not a total of all of them). Cookies should be back to the cupboard by Monday night. If you can't make it to the cupboard Monday, please let me know by Monday night what you will be bringing back by Wednesday so we can include them as available inventory for the Friday pickups. The better we control this, the fewer leftovers we have at the end. If I am available Sat. or Sun. or on Mon. morning before cupboard time, returns could be brought to my house - email or call/text to arrange. I encourage you to return unsold cases promptly, even if you plan to have more booth sales, especially if there will be a weekend between planned booths. This keeps inventory flowing so council doesn't have to make as many reorders to the bakery and avoids having too many left at the end of the sale. I also don't want to see troops stuck with cases they can no longer return if they are done selling. Please do not hold them all until the end of cupboard time - contact me. I know it's inconvenient to make lots of trips to the cupboard, but this is what we need to do to have better control and availability of our cookie inventory. Returns (and small pickups) can always come to my house at odd times if your schedule doesn't match the cupboard schedule - just check in with me. Remember, you can take out mixed flavor cases but returns have to be full cases of each flavor. Also, when you have returns, if you can let me know roughly what you will be bringing back ahead of time, I can enter it into the Budde and print the receipt so it is ready when you come to the  cupboard.

• Troop to Troop Transfers:    This can be done if you want to trade cookie types with another troop or just transfer them to another troop.  Why would you do this?   If you are out of some type at a booth, the cupboard is not open, and another troop is nearby with what you need.  If you have kept your supply too long and they can't come back to the cupboard and you are done selling and another troop can use them.   This transfer can be done in eBudde,  there is a spot for it.   No money is exchanged.   Each sales report is adjusted so the final sweep will take the correct amount.   The receiving troop makes the transfer in eBudde.

Internet connection at the cupboard:   2024 -  my cell service will hotspot my laptop.        Email, or text my cell to contact me.   802-363-5565 - If you are sending a Text  - just remember to include your name and troop number so I know who I'm getting back to.   If I'm helping someone with cookies I might not answer and will have to get back to you.

 There is lots to look at on the eBudde site,     littlebrownie.com   

There are Sales suggestions as well as instructions about how to work eBudde if you need a refresher or are new.  Remember you can call or email council customer care if you are stuck with an eBudde problem.

All suggestions and comments about how to make the cupboard work better are welcome ...

And your pick-up time

When you choose your pick up time in eBudde, it will only schedule one person for any one 15 minute interval.   The available times should be indicated in eBudde.   You will get an error message in eBudde when trying to SAVE if the time you have picked is already taken.  

Check here before coming to pick up your order to see if it is pulled and ready,  also if any changes need to be made.   This spot is your confirmation that I have seen your order in eBudde.   If you are noticing "Pending" in eBudde, it just means that you have not picked your order up yet.

Belle Pfeiffer      cookiecupboard9@gmail.com       Cell phone :    802-363-5565

Please call Council Customer Care  if you are having eBudde problems or contact your service unit Community Product Sales Volunteer.       

For Community  235 - Franklin:   Bakersfield,  Fletcher,  Berkshire,  Highgate,  Enosburg Falls,  Fairfax,  Georgia,  Fairfield,  Sheldon,  Franklin,  Montgomery, Richmond,  St. Albans,  Swanton:    Sara Blow  and Aimee Laferriere    gsgwmcommunity235CPSC@gmail.com    

For Community  241 - Snowflake:  Westford, Underhill, Jericho,  Essex,  Richmond,  Huntington,  Bolton:    Jennie Clarke   jenclarke38@gmail.com        

For Community  246   Colchester,  Alburg,  Grand Isle,  Isle La Motte,  Milton,  North Hero,  South Hero:     Laurie Himes    SU253productsales@gmail.com           

For Community  253  Winooski,  Burlington,  S. Burlington,  Williston,  Charlotte,  Hinesburg,  Shelburne,  St. George:   Laurie Himes    SU253productsales@gmail.com

For Community  240   Belvidere,  Cambridge,  Jeffersonville,  Waterville,  Eden,  Hyde Park,  Johnson,  Lake Elmore,  Elmore,  Morrisville,  Wolcott, Woodbury,  Craftsbury,  Greensboro,  Stannard,  Hardwick:    Council Customer Care

For Community  244 - GreenMountain Girls:   Bristol,  Lincoln,  Ferrisburg,  Monkton,  New Haven,  Starksboro,  Addison,  Panton,  Vergennes,  Waltham,  Weybridge, Bridport,  Cornwall,  Middlebury,  Ripton,  Salisbury,  Shoreham:     Council Customer Care

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