Girl Scout cookies cost one US Dollar in the years from about 1968 until about 1975.
Girl Scout councils determine the price for cookies in their own council, so not all areas may have been asking $1.00 for Girl Scout cookies during that time.
Girl Scout cookies cost 35 cents in the years from 1922 to about 1959.
1988-1989
1978-1979
Yes, Girl Scout cookies were 25 cents per box in the early years. From 1922 to about 1952 Girl Scout cookies cost approximately 25 cents per box, depending on where the cookies were sold.
Depending on the price set by the local Girl Scout council, cookies cost approximately $1.25 to $1.50 in 1982.
0.50 cents a box
The first box of commercially baked Girl Scout cookies was sold in the Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) council in 1935. A box of 44 cookies cost 23 cents!
The price for Girl Scout cookies in 1969, depending on the Girl Scout council, was from $0.50 to $1.00.
35 cents per box when my sisters sold them in the mid-1950's. By the time I sold them in the mid-1960's, they were up to 50 cents per box and maybe even 60 cents the last year I sold. I remember having to have lots of change!
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 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.
Girl Scout cookies cost about $0.50 to $1.00 in 1970.
In the 1920's and 1930's, cookies were made at home by the Girl Scouts and their mothers. The cookies were wrapped in wax paper bags, sealed with a sticker and sold for 25 to 35 cents per dozen.
Depending on the local Girl Scout Council, Girl Scout cookies cost either $3.50 or $4.00 per box in 2013.
Depending on the Girl Scout council, Girl Scouts of the USA cookies cost from $2.00 to $2.50 per box in 1990.