The annual cookie sale started off on Thursday and will go on until January 25. Abby Knipp is only 7 years old but this didn’t stop her from going to her neighborhood on Manitowoc's south side and sell the Girl Scout cookies. Lisa, Abby’s mother, said that the cookies just sell themselves and that neighbors started asking about the cookie sale even just before the holidays.

Abby is in the second grade at St. Francis Xavier Elementary School and one of the 17 girls in Brownie Group 5. She said that Samoas are her favorite cookies as she likes the coconut and chocolate on them. On Thursday, Abby was wearing her pink and brown jacket with matching hat, boots and mittens while she was preparing to go from door to door and sell the extraordinary cookies.

Even if people don’t buy such things anymore due to the economic crisis, Abby had some luck when she ringed the sixth door, but people were still very sweet on Girl Scout cookies. The neighbors who bought the cookies said that they worked for Catholic schools and they are used to buying things for charity.

The Thin Mints are the cookies which have the best success, Lisa said. Abby’s mother is an adult Brownie supervisor of her daughter's troop and a community cookie manager. Latin American-inspired milky caramel chip cookies called Dulce De Leche, Samoas, Trefoils, Do-si-dos, Tagalongs, Lemon Chalet Cremes and Sugar Free Chocolate Chips are the new cookies this year and a box cost only $3.

Lisa added that they sell so good because they have zero grams of trans fat. The Brownie’s goal for this year is to sell 2,000 boxes and Abby hopes to sell 300 al by herself. When Erin, her sister who is 14 now, was on Girl Scout too, she broke the record by selling 380 boxes.

This way, the girls, who are aged from kindergarten through age 12, learn about marketing, money management and customer service by selling these cookies and participating in these projects.