Comments on: Future Homemakers Society Rejects

By: Patricia C

Patricia C — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:22:17 +0000

Wow, I used to want to be a girl scout, didnt’ know about the Brownies. Now reading about that seems to suck big time! lol Although I love the outdoors, knitting, crocheting or making sit-upons is not my idea of fun. Tried knitting and crocheting once. I hate crocheting. Knitting, well, I am just plain lousy at it. What started to be a shawl ended up being a really really tight knit scarf. lol

Love your blog btw!

By: Your Aunt Becky

Your Aunt Becky — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:40:58 +0000

I think my parents bought the whole 11 boxes I sold. Because they are SAINTS. Also, thank GOD I never had to do 4-H. You got marked down for your cookies not being the same diameter? Holy BALLS am I glad I never had to do that. SHEESH.

By: Elizabeth Turner

Elizabeth Turner — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:36:37 +0000

I, too, am a Girl Scout dropout.

I trudged door to door attempting to sell cookies.

I bought most of them.

I hated the camping trip and the girls whose parents worked in big offices, doing all the work for them and rounding up millions of sales.

I’m so glad I’m – sniff – alone.

Oh, and 4-H, too. Everyone in my town did it.
One year, and I realized if my cookies were going to get marked down for not all being the exact same diameter, this was Not For Me.

By: A

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:42:54 +0000

In hindsight, and after knocking the poop brown uniforms,
I think the brownies could be a useful organization if they pumped it up a bit. Ditched the dresses and give more variety to the earning of badges, more unisex.

Brought it up to date a tad..

By: A

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:23:42 +0000

Even TAN would have been preferable. Or forest green. But poop brown? Just completely setting us up for failure!

By: mumma boo

mumma boo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:33:03 +0000

It’s never too late to become an heiress; however, it seems like these days you also have to be a skank to be an heiress, and you, my dear, are not a skank.

And of course, Mimi is going to be the uber-Girl Scout. You’ll be ironing and sewing on patches until your fingers bleed.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:41:05 +0000

Mine was made with newspaper, too. Only we called them “sit-upons”. SIT-UPONS!

By: magpie

magpie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:56:28 +0000

wasn’t marrying dave kind of like becoming an heiress?

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:38:23 +0000

The situpon- even if used as intended- sounds like shitloads more fun than my Brownie experience: learning to prepare a parcel for the mail and singing God Save the Queen. You Americans get all the breaks!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:08:48 +0000

Yeah, I think I’ll just stay happy with what I get, when I get it. lol

Someone mentioned the newspaper stuffed ‘sit-upons’ and I’m certain that I made one at one point. I can’t recall if it was at school or part of cub scouts, but I do recall it being the most useless craft ever.