By Morgan Huelsman
Apr 5, 2021
8-year-old Lilly Bumpus of California was recently in the news for breaking the Girl Scout cookie selling record. She sold the most boxes of Girl Scout cookies ever in one season at
32,484 boxes. Bumpus herself is a survivor of the childhood cancer known as Ewing s sarcoma. She and her mom Trish stopped by
Trish shared that they never knew there was such a thing as a cookie record. Originally Lily s goal was to sell 5,000 boxes at the beginning of the season so that she could go to Fiji and Australia for free with the other Girl Scouts. She was able to accomplish that goal in the pre-selling stage. Then she told her mother she wanted to continue selling to help the homeless, so she sought out to sell 10,000 more boxes. After she hit the second goal, she just kept reaching and setting more goals. She shared that with Bumpus fighting cancer in her early years, as a family they ve fought to have