You own handbooks for older levels that you haven't reached yet.

  You can't find last year's tax return but you know exactly where the instructions are for the Christmas angel craft.

  People stop you at the market to ask how to join Girl Scouting/Guiding.

  You never throw out ANYTHING without first thinking 'Could the troop use this in some way?'

  You make campfire foods at home and serve them to your family to try out new recipes.

  Your garage looks like a camp store.

  At least one room in your house ALWAYS has some kind of Girl Scout paperwork strewn all over it.

  People stop you at work to buy cookies...in July...and you HAVE some.

  You introduce your daughters by program level.

  You bring your daughter's handbook on vacation to see if you can knock off a few try-it/badge/IPP requirements.

  You shop at the council store for birthday party gifts.

  After the hurricane knocks out your power you are happy as a clam cookingfor the neighbors with your vagabond stove and carboard box oven.

  Your husband is afraid to take out the trash until you check it for possible craft materials.

  You carry the troop telephone list, a first aid kit, paper towels, wet wipes, and a "lost and found" box in your car.

  You have two grocery sacks filled with styrofoam meat trays in the garage just in case you might need them for something.

  When You use the saying "my girls" yet you only have 1 daughter...

  Or even better - when you use the saying "my girls" and you don't have *any* children!

  You get really excited when you find out that your dad is still saving coffee cans behind your mother's back!

  You get upset when your husband dares to think that he can use that tuna can you have been saving.

  You encourage your kids to eat tuna fish sandwiches to get the empty cans.

  Neighborhood children come to your house all summer long asking "Got any gimp?" and you always do.

  Co workers ask if you've got: an aspirin, a needle and thread, a safety pin...and you always do!

  You and your family of 7 are drinking all of your milk out of quart waxed cardboard containers because you saw this really cool way to cook hotdogs from the cyber cookbook and you need 30 containers by September!

  Most of your cutlery has the remnants of nail-varnished initials fromlast year's camp?

  One consideration while buying your next vehicle is "how many girls with sleeping bags and backpacks can I fit in this thing"?

  You will buy almost anything from the clearance bins for a dollar or two because you just know you'll think of some way the girls can use it.

  After a major ice storm that brings down hundreds of trees you think "Wow, we're set for firewood for a long time"

  You wake up early on your neighborhood's recycling day to check out the bins on your block before the truck comes by.

  You kept right on being SUM for 8 years after your only child (daughter) graduated from high school.

  You carry extra garbage bags in your car, just in case.

  You send this link to others or reprint it in your service unit newsletter.