DES MOINES, Iowa - Homeless man Darrell “Skunkbite” Pringle has purchased a home using the smiles he collected over the years. The home, a 2,700 square foot building in the heart of Des Moines, has a street value of over 900,000 smiles. Pringle said he stumbled on the idea for his now iconic saying - “Anything helps, even a smile” - when a passerby said he didn’t have any change to give “but he’d give me a smile if that’d help.”
