HOW THE CLUB WORKS

To join The Proper Mountain Woman Club you must pay your club dues by purchasing a membership in the club store. Once you have paid your club dues you will be sent a merit badge workbook.

 

The workbook lists all the merit badges that you can work on during the winter session. There are over 200 merit badges you can earn, but you won't earn them all. You will earn the ones that speak to you. We have merit badges in twelve categories, so there is something for everyone! The merit badges are designed to challenge you, stretch you, help you to keep moving, and help you to embrace the winter. Some are hard, others are easy. But all of them will enrich your life in some way.

 

​The 12 Merit Badge Categories:

Arts & Crafts - learn a new craft technique, make something, use your hands, create art

Beauty - focus on beauty routines, skin-care, hare-care, experiment with a new fashion trend, wear something new, be the best dressed

Health & Fitness - be a little bit healthier at the end of the club session than you were at the start, develop an exercise routine, try a new workout class, be active every day, eat healthy, stay up to date on doctor visits and wellness screenings

Home & Hygge - make your house the coziest place to be, finish house projects, decorate, organize, then enjoy your home by creating cozy intentional moments. In the winter we really focus on the "Hygge" part of Home & Hygge - we cozy up to work on puzzles, gather around flickering light for card games, and READ! 

Kitchen - use new ingredients, try new recipes, master certain dishes and techniques, create new flavors

Knowledge - practice a foreign language, learn a musical instrument, read a historical nonfiction, complete a crossword, take a class

Mischief - purely just to add nonsensical fun to your life, walk under a full moon, skinny dip, go dancing

Nature - all these merit badges are designed to get you outside and connecting to nature

Self-Reliance - be prepared for any situation and to help yourself or others

Service - proper mountain women see a need and help when they can

Social - improve relationships, connect with others, practice good etiquette, have social engagements to look forward to

Spiritual - focus on inner peace and harmony, inner growth, connection to higher meaning, daily habits to nurture the soul and be less worldly

 

CLUB MERIT TRACKER

You will be required to log the merit badges you earn into The Merit Tracker... a special website designed for troop members to keep track of their merit badges. If you are a new troop member you will receive an email at the time the club starts with your login information for The Merit Tracker. If you are a returning member, your login information stays the same but you will be granted access to the new club session. The merit badges you earn will be represented digitally on this website (there are no physical merit badges mailed out). Throughout the club session, and as you earn merit badges, you will advance in rank and title within the club. When you advance to certain ranks and titles you will receive special club patches in the mail to commemorate your hard work and progression!