On the heels of my last complaint report about how printing one of the Journeys found in VTK clear cuts forests in one fell swoop, a fellow leader from my council brought to my attention a random file that she found while searching for something else.  It looks like a catalog published by GSUSA, and it’s called Girl Scout Essentials 2018-19.

She also pointed out that this catalog includes a resource that’s related to something I have been complaining about researching for a while now.  In fact, one particular post from last December about my frustration with the lack of printer friendly resources has the most views of any post on this blog, so it’s definitely struck some kind of nerve with volunteers.  It’s called Twelve Page Pet Peeve and it details how aggravated I get when I see something published by GSUSA that I want to print, but doing so would eat up an entire ink cartridge.  But I try to be one of those people that brings something to the table if I criticize point out an issue, so I wrote a follow-up that includes a mock-up of a Brownie awards log so that someone – anyone – could see what I was talking about.  Continue reading