A 6-Year-Old Girl Scout Just Set a Record for Cookie Sales

Pim Neill was three years old the first time she saw a group of girls selling cookies outside a store. She watched, she decided, and she never really let go of the idea. “This whole thing started by her observing girls performing what most people think is the only thing Girl Scouts do,” her father, Luke Anorak-Neill, told CBS News. By the time Pim reached kindergarten, joining a troop had become a mission.

Getting there was not straightforward. The family was turned away from two local troops before finding a home in a new kindergarten troop in the Baldwin-Whitehall area near Pittsburgh. When cookie season opened on January 6, 2026, Pim was ready.

A Season Unlike Any Other

Within three days, she had sold 800 boxes. Within weeks, she had shattered the Pennsylvania state record, selling more than 81,000 boxes to claim it, according to CBS News Pittsburgh. By mid-February, her total had climbed past 87,000 boxes — a number that moved faster than news outlets could keep up with. As of late February, her sales had surpassed 100,000 boxes for the season, with time still remaining on the clock.

The engine behind the numbers was a TikTok page her father created called “Life of Pim.” Each video opened the same way: “Hi, my name is Pim. Do you want to buy some Girl Scout cookies?” The internet answered. One video accumulated more than five million views. Orders arrived from all 50 states. “People on TikTok rallied,” Anorak-Neill said. “They loved her. They adored her.”

More Than a Cookie Sale

What gives the story its weight is what sits behind the numbers. Pim’s father, Luke, learned he needed a lung transplant during the lead-up to cookie season, and a planned family trip to Niagara Falls — a place meaningful to both of her parents — had been postponed. When Pim learned that selling 2,026 boxes would earn her a trip there, she set her sights on it immediately. She reached that goal before social media ever got involved.

Pim also navigated real obstacles to get to this point. Her family described experiences of rejection early in their search for a troop, including at least one encounter they called difficult. None of it stopped her. “Her skills are growing, and who she is as a person is growing,” Anorak-Neill said. “We love her for who she is.”

What a Kindergartner Built

The all-time career sales record for Girl Scout cookies — 180,000 boxes, held by Katie Francis — was within range as Pim’s season continued. Whether she reaches it or not, what she has already accomplished carries its own meaning. She turned a kindergartener’s simple wish into a national moment, and she did it with the same opening line every time, delivered in a soft voice to anyone willing to listen.

For Mina Beach of Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania, the season has been unlike anything the organization has seen. “For us, this has never happened,” she told WPXI. “This is very exciting.” For Pim, it began the way most things in her life seem to — with a goal in mind and no particular reason to think it could not be done.

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