How do Buddy and his friend earn money?

Buddy and his friend are very creative in how they earn money. Keep in mind one is only seven years old and the other is a hunched, timid woman in her sixties, so neither one has a job outside the house.

Here are a few of the ways that Buddy says they scrape together money throughout the year.

• holding rummage sales and selling things


• picking blackberries and selling them by the bucket


• making homemade jams...

Buddy and his friend are very creative in how they earn money. Keep in mind one is only seven years old and the other is a hunched, timid woman in her sixties, so neither one has a job outside the house.

Here are a few of the ways that Buddy says they scrape together money throughout the year.

• holding rummage sales and selling things


• picking blackberries and selling them by the bucket


• making homemade jams and jellies and selling them


• picking flowers and then selling them for local weddings and funerals

They also enter all sorts of contests in hopes of winning prize money, which they actually did once.

"Once we won seventy-ninth prize, five dollars, in a national football contest. Not that we know a fool thing about football. It's just that we enter any contest we hear about" (Capote).

Finally, they once ran a "Fun and Freak Museum" in their backyard, where they were able to charge adults a nice a piece and kids two cents each.

Overall, these two are pretty crafty when it came to earning a buck!