Community Chat

[Estellee]

I remember very little about the time I spent as a Brownie in the 50's. Just wearing the uniform and also marshmallow roasts.

[beckyb1012]

I became a Brownie in 1st grade 1968.  My mom was the only working mother in my class but none of the others wanted to be our school's leader so my great-grandmother stepped up to lead.  She did it for two years and the second year when my younger brother started 1st grade he became our troops mascot since she picked him up on those days as well.  I went on to a Jr. Scout but stopped when I started Jr. High School.  Those cookies cost about .50 cents when I sold them.

Monday afternoon's when we met for Brownies wearing our important uniforms was my favorite day of the week.  We did so much fun stuff with my Mama Jack. That was what she had all the little girls call her just like all her Grands.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

Yes, I was a Brownie and then a Girl Scout! My mom was a Brownie Leader, I remember being so proud.....I loved being in both, especially Brownies....

I loved selling Girl Scout Cookies, I always got lots of orders from neighborhood, my mom's job, my dad's job, and siblings and their friends as well....It was such a competetion back then....

I also remember going to Girl Scouts camp, and a raccoon getting into our tent, after we left treats out.....Yikes! We were all screaming!!!

My daughters were both in Scouts as well and had such fond memories a well....  

[River Song]

I was a Brownie and a Girl Scout until I was a senior in high school.  When I started selling cookies, I think they were 35 cents/box.  Then the price went up to 50 cents and customers were outraged, lol.  I was a very shy child but still went door to door in my Brownie uniform carrying the cookie boxes in two cardboard carrying cartons.  I remember trying to anticipate which cookie flavor was the most popular and putting more of those in the carrying cartons.  My parents never helped me sell the cookies, my Mom didn't work at that time and my Dad worked in a factory.  I was on my own.

The troop went on camping trips every summer at a Girl Scout camp.  The tents were on platforms and had camp beds that we put our sleeping bags on.  Cooked over the campfire, made s'mores, of course.  I do remember actually making our own DIY sterno cooking fuel with a tuna fish can, coiled up cardboard and paraffin wax.  

One summer, instead of camping at a campground in the woods, the troop leaders rented an old beach cottage on Lake Erie.  Had a bonfire on the beach, such as it was.  Lake Erie was filthy back then, you came out of the water dirtier than when you went in, lol, so no swimming.

I think I may have my Girl Scout pocket knife somewhere but my sash with all my badges is long gone.  I remember being so proud that my badges went up and over my shoulder on the sash.  That was a lot of badges.

[Burnsite]

I was in Brownies and Girl Scouts. 

The troop leader for Brownies was the nicest lady, and our band of merry brownies learned about "sit-upons" and were taught the scouting songs. One song I brooded about urged us to "Make new friends, but keep the old/ One is silver and the other gold." I would ponder this, wondering "How can I have old friends?  I'm only seven." 

My mom, a friend of the Brownie troop lady, had the whole troop over to teach us how to make a bed (plenty of them in our large family). I got to demonstrate a "hospital corner" bed--Mom was an RN. Then we ran around the yard and were served refreshments.

As a Girl Scout, I loved the campcraft and wilderness tours, but my four brothers probably had a lot more outdoor activity. I envied their more outdoorsy and active gatherings. Loved the GS uniform, though!  I sold the cookies door to door but closed only one deal on a single box.  I probably looked terrified, for I was.

[debcakes]

I very much enjoyed being a Scout. I remember selling the cookies for 35 cents in the late 1950s. We thought it was terrible when they raised the price to 50 cents.

[Gorgf]

I was a Girl Scout until 8th grade.  I began in second grade.Those ugly ill fitting Brownie uniforms and beanies? I think we wore them to School on Thursday. The boys called us Fudgicles. I can still sing the Brownie Smile Song.. Johnny Appleseed song before meals.  I recall many of the songs we sang hiking and in the buses. I often wonder how our Jewish GSs felt with some of the religious  Christian songs we sang.

I started with Day Camp and then my last camp was two weeks as a Junior GS. I still have my green GS jack knife. I also remember being full of mosquito bites on my legs.  Cleaning the Latrine (outhouse) at camp. I got my period for the first time when I went to camp two weeks, I came home with stained shorts.

My Stepdaughter's Kindergarten age daughter started GS! I got hit up for a fund raiser of course.

My Mother was also a GS and I still have her  GS pin. Cookies wete .50 a dozen in tbe 60s.and  two or three choices. Great memories and meeting girls from other school and towns was so nice.

[pinkcrystal]

I went all the way through GS from Brownie to Senior and then was a camp counselor for two years during the summers out of college.  Some of the best times I've ever had were in Girl Scouts.  

[Pandalady]

I was a Girl Scout.  Loved to earn the badges and having mama sew them to my sash.  Also, loved wearing my uniform to school on the days I had meetings.  Personally, the one thing that I didn't like was camp.  I was an only child and a home body.  So hard for me to be away from mama and daddy!

[Foxxee]

Girl Scout here, as well.  Also, a top cookie seller.