One of the few things I recall from being in the Girl Scouts in the 1960s was reading about how young children, such as we were, could perform a blood transfusion in case of a nuclear attack or other wartime emergency. It didn't seem all that absurd to me at the time, but it drove home how precarious we thought our lives were. I memorized all the steps and probably earned some kind of badge for it. But Girl Scout badges come and go, and some are better left in the dustbin of history.
Girl Scouting has been around for 110 years as of March 12th, and in that time, there have been badges for grooming, laundry, and invalid cooking (which is preparing food for invalids, not cooking from your bed). There were also badges called Gypsy and "Oil-up," which were both for skills that had nothing to do with the title. Read what these and other erstwhile Girl Scout badges required as accomplishments at Mental Floss.
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Some of these badges, such as Gypsy, really just need to be renamed and restyled. Being able to travel overland through the wild for a day with minimal equipment would still be a useful skill set.
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I was a bobcat I didnt get far in boy scouts.
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