--- title: Thin Mints, Samoas Now $5 a Box after Girl Scouts Raise Cookie Prices description: Girl Scout cookies in some cities are now $5 a box. Will you still get your fill of Thin Mints? authors: - name: Alicia Adamczyk url: https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 201 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk former_staff: true published: '2015-11-06T15:39:12.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T07:29:03.000Z' section: Business tags: - Food & Drink - Girl Scouts word_count: 182 canonical: https://money.com/thin-mints-samoas-girl-scout-cookie-price-increase-2015/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Girl Scout Credit Card Cookie Sales](https://img.money.com/2015/11/thinmint_girlscout_price.jpg) *Christine MacLeod of Eastern Massachusetts Girl Scout Troop 71911, sells cookies at the Harvard Square subway stop (Photo by Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)* Back in my days as a Girl Scout, you could treat yourself to a box of Thin Mints or better still (don't tell me otherwise) Samoas for just $2.50 a box. And it was quite a lucrative business: Trips with my troop to the Grand Canyon and the Henry Ford Museum were bankrolled through stellar cookie sales. But the days of $2.50 Girl Scout cookies are long gone. In February, the price was [raised to $4 a box from $3.50](https://money.com/girl-scouts-raise-cookie-prices/), a lamentable but still manageable increase. Now, councils in California and Massachusetts have confirmed another increase, [TIME reports](https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/), to $5 — a full 25% raise. As someone who struggled with the $4 payout, this comes as distressing news (thankfully councils in New York appear to be holding firm at February prices). Still, if it enables more girls to experience the majesty of the Grand Canyon, it's hard to complain. My freezer will still become home to a few boxes as soon as Cookie Season starts in New York in [just 35 days](http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/cookies.asp). What about you? 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