Nuts & Candy

2012 Fall Product Sale set for October 5 - 28

Is your Girl Scout troop interested in a money earning activity that’s easy, provides start up funds for the troop right away, and offers customers a variety of delicious yet inexpensive items to purchase? The council’s Fall Product Sale of nuts, candies, magazines, and address booklets begins October 5, with a theme of What Can a Girl Do? Get Connected! Ashdon Farms/QSP, the licensed Girl Scout vendor, has even prepared a lot of fun activities for Girl Scouts of all ages to enjoy.

Click here to learn more how the QSP Magazine component works!

Ashdon Farms/QSP has also provided an Interactive Activities link that is a supplement to the printed Be A Reader (BAR) Activity Booklet. Click here to visit the site.

Click here to see the Fall Product Sale items!

Click here t o see the list of the 2012 Product Sale Incentives!

Girls earn start up money for their troop and earn cool patches and other incentives!

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The fall product sale differs from the cookie sale in that all orders are pre-paid, and
there are no booth sales. The troop earns $1 for every food item sold, $2 for every address booklet (only one per girl) completed, and 10% of the price of each magazine sold (and 15% for online sales). The family and friends sale runs October 5 - 28. Girls deliver the orders November 13-20, and since the money is pre-collected, the troop receives their proceeds immediately. Incentives are delivered in December.

Click here for the order form.

Troops must be registered by September 14 for the new membership year to participate in the sale. The sale is for all age levels but as always, participation in the fall product sale is entirely voluntary. Participating in a Council-sponsored product sale teaches essential business skills including goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics.

Service Project

The community service project gives customers the option to purchase honey-roasted peanuts to be shipped overseas to our military troops! When a girl sells five items for the troops, she will earn a patch.

What is the QSP Program?

QSP, a division of Time Inc, sponsors a Girl Scout money earning program that promotes literacy through the sale of magazine subscriptions and books. Troops receive 10% of the price of each magazine sold (and 15% for online sales) All orders are backed by a guarantee of service by QSP. Customers do not become part of a mailing list through QSP. Any new magazine subscriptions will start 12 - 14 weeks after the orders are processed in November.

Over 1,000 magazines are offered this year, including dozens of children's magazines. Some magazine subscriptions offer a free gift or a second year’s subscription for free. Click here to order magazines online! (Proceeds from online orders will benefit the Girl Scouts Louisiana East.) Books round out the vast array of choices.

How it works:

Ordering/Renewing your family and friends’ favorite magazines

Your Girl Scout contacts family and friends asking them to renew or subscribe to their favorite magazines. She also has the option to contact family and friends via email through QSP’s online magazine ordering system. Your Girl Scout troop will earn Troop/Group proceeds and each girl will receive recognitions for each subscription purchased. If she sends 12 emails she'll receive the "Online" patch. Sell three magazines and earn the "Success for T omorrow " patch.

Friendly Referrals using Address Adventure Booklet

Your Girl Scout can ask family and friends living in other communities to help support Girl Scouts by completing the special referral coupons in the mail-out booklets. QSP will mail information which shows them how to purchase their favorite publications at the same low prices. Your Girl Scout will earn the "Together to the Top" patch for completing one address booklet. The Troop/Group will earn $2 per address booklet. (Maximum one booklet per girl.) Your friends and family members will receive two mailings. QSP does not database these addresses, they simply make a copy of the referral coupon. Even if the person orders from the first mailing, they will receive a second mailing

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