How To Organize Girl Scout Cookies – Updated for 2024

What season is it? No, not winter. It’s Girl Scout Cookie season! And along with that comes the challenge of how to organize Girl Scout cookies.

You’ll love this article as a Cookie Mom. Do you need to organize your daughter’s cookies once they’re home? Check out this article sharing Girl Scout delivery tips and tricks here.

So first, the good news. Neither Little Brownie Bakers nor ABC Bakers introduced a new cookie this year. Last year’s hit new cookie, Raspberry Rally, is not available this year at all either for online sales or in-person sales.

While you don’t need to learn a new cookie this year, you still want to get and stay organized so you know exactly who gets what cookies.

If you’re like me, you volunteered to be Cookie Mom, and now you entered the initial orders, you get to pick up the cookies. You suddenly realized that this can be a little daunting.

Wait, forget the selling, figuring out how to organize Girl Scout cookies is the real challenge! On the plus side, the organization doesn’t have to be that complicated.

Getting yourself prepped before the cookies come and ensuring you have adequate space makes the process much easier. It also prevents the panic of trying to figure out where that missing box of cookies went or why you have extras.

I picked up the cookies from my daughter’s troop today – two SUV loads – this morning and within an hour and a half, I had them back to my house and sorted into boxes sold by girl, donated boxes that we drop at the local food pantry, and boxes we have reserved for our cookie booths.

Need help with your cookie booth strategy? I’ve got you covered with my cookie booth tips and printables, too.

The boxes my daughter sold? Those she sorts when she gets home from school (because this is HER project, not mine), but the same philosophy holds when you need to figure out how to organize Girl Scout cookies for the troop or for your daughter.

When she gets ready to deliver, I use this free thank you printable to organize them and encourage customers to buy more cookies when they run out.

Cookie Moms: How To Organize Girl Scout Cookies (2024)

Before you get your cookies:

Updated for 2024 cookies: I created a how to organize Girl Scout Cookies free printable for cookie moms years ago that works beautifully whether you’re the only one sorting the cookies as they come into your home or whether you have someone helping you.

Print this out and fill out the sales for each girl as your first step. Cut the full sheet into the squares for each girl and write in each girl’s name and the total cookies sold from your online system.

Do this before you have any cookies in your possession. Download this version for Little Brownie Bakers cookies, and download this version for ABC Bakers cookies.

As a heads up, the file names say 2022, but the cookies from 2022 and 2024 are identical, so it is the correct file.

Note that this year, the cookie varieties changed just a little with both bakers removing Raspberry Rally this year, as I mentioned above.

Do you know the cookie options and what they’re like? If you’re new to being a cookie mom, make sure you read the Girl Scout cookie flavors article.

Make picking up your cookies easier

When you pick up the cookies, we write our troop numbers on a slip of paper and place that on our windshield to ensure the right troop gets the right cookies. This is easy enough to do on a piece of scratch paper with a marker.

I also note how many total cases we should receive by type of cookie. That way, I don’t have to print out another piece of paper to track, and I know exactly what we should be getting.

Yes, one year, we did have a discrepancy and only because I had my own tally did we straighten it out quickly. Once you leave the pickup spot, you generally don’t have recourse for any missing boxes.

Easily sort your troop’s cookies

Once you get home, sort the boxes by type of cookie. Ensure you have plenty of space both for the cases that you have to start and to space organize the boxes by girl.

Place all the Thin Mints together, all the Tagalongs together, etc. I find it easiest to do this with the cases in a line in the order they come on the order form – Adventurefuls first, then Trefoils, etc., which makes it easy for me to take boxes as I go and not accidentally miss a type of cookie for a girl.

Take the slips of paper you wrote out for each girl and pick the cookies one girl at a time. If I’m not sure I’ll have enough space, I will tape the paper to my wall.

That ensures I have enough space for each girl’s boxes. I then refer to the slip to quickly see exactly how many cookies I need for each girl without worrying that I am reading off a row and giving the wrong number of cookies.

Once I have all the cookies sorted by girl, I send an email to the troop letting them know the cookies are ready. I give them a deadline to arrange pick up because too often without a deadline, they sat in my garage for way too long.

And yes, I make the girls come to me to get their cookies. I have them sorted and organized, and with all the work I do, so it’s not unreasonable to ask them to make the quick trip over to get their cookies.

I keep the stacks of cases for each girl organized by the girls’ first names. This lets me quickly and easily pass along the cookies when they and their moms come to pick them up.

With so many girls in our troop, this is one of those sneaky tips when you think about how to organize Girl Scout cookies. I do a quick review of the cookies with each girl as they pick them up so we’re all in agreement and don’t have issues later.

It’s time to deliver – what are your tips on how to organize Girl Scout cookies?

Need to organize your daughter’s cookies? Check out these ideas, including a free thank you printable to go with your cookie orders!

Next up? Check out how to get your booth sales running smoothly and increase sales.

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