Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the cookies for their council. For the 2012 cookie sale, most councils set their price at $4.00 per box. Other councils may have set a different price.
The price for Girl Scout cookies for the years from 1995 to 1999 ranged from $2.50 to $3.00.
Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the cookies for their council. For the 2015 cookie sale, most councils set their price at $4.00 per box with the gluten free cookie at $5.00. Some councils may have set a different price.You can use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder or the Girl Scout Cookie Finder App to find the price and sale dates of the current Girl Scout Cookie Sale.
For Girl Scouts of the USA, depending on the Girl Scout council, Girl Scout cookies were priced from $0.35 to $0.50 in 1960.
Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the cookies sold by Girl Scouts in their council. For 2011, most Girl Scout councils are selling cookies for either $3.50 or $4.00 per box. Use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder (see Related Links) to contact your local Girl Scout council to find out the price of their cookies.
San Francisco, California is located in the Girl Scouts of Northern California council. For the 2015 Girl Scout cookie sale, the price of cookies in Girl Scouts of Northern California is $5.00.Each Girl Scout council sets the price for their cookies and the price may change from one year to the next. You can use the Girl Scout Cookie Locator for more information about cookies and prices.
The price for Girl Scout cookies in 1969, depending on the Girl Scout council, was from $0.50 to $1.00.
Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the cookies for their council. For the 2010 cookie sale, some councils set their price at $3.50 per box and some councils set their price at $4.00 per box. Other councils may have set a different price.
In 1992, Girl Scout cookies cost approximately $2.50 per box. Each Girl Scout council sets its own price for the cookies, so there was some variation in the price between councils.
The first troop known to sell Girl Scout cookies was the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma in December of 1917. The girls and their mothers baked cookies in their homes. They then sold the cookies in the school cafeteria. Selling cookies was a good way to earn money to finance troop activities.
If you buy the Girl Scout cookies and take them with you to consume them, you can not deduct their price. You have purchased a product at a fair market value.If you buy Girl Scout cookies and leave them with the Girl Scouts as a donation, you may treat the purchase price of the donated cookies as a charitable contribution. If you buy the cookies and then donate them to another charitable organization, the cookies may be tax-deductible if they qualify as a donation to that organization.
The first known Girl scout cookie sale occurred in 1917 when one troop, the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies and sold them in the school cafeteria as a service project. There is no record of the actual cost of the cookies. In the 1920's and 1930's, Girl Scout cookies were sold by troops for 25 or 30 cents per dozen.