<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . (February 2017) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . (February 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> Girl Scout Cookies are cookies sold by Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) as one of its major fundraisers for local Scout units . Members of the GSUSA have been selling cookies since 1917 to raise funds . Girls who participate can earn prizes for their efforts . There are also troop incentives if the troop as a whole does well . As of 2007, sales were estimated at approximately 200 million boxes per year . </P> <P> The first cookie sales by an individual Scout unit was by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in December 1917 at their local high school . In 1922, the Girl Scout magazine The American Girl suggested cookie sales as a fundraiser and provided a simple cookie recipe from a regional director for the Girl Scouts of Chicago . </P>

When did girl scouts first start selling cookies