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Estate Sales: Reading the Listing and What to Bring
An estate sale listing tells you more than its photos do, once you know the four details to look for. Plus the…
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What never to buy secondhand for a home
Some things are cheap secondhand for good reasons: mattresses, child car seats, helmets, smoke alarms, anything with a lithium battery. Eight categories…
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Flea Market Haggling Without Being a Nuisance
Picture a 1960s lounge chair tagged at $450. Here's how a fair negotiation toward $300 typically goes: the sequence, the words that…
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Fifteen secondhand buys under $50 that look pricier
Fifteen garments and accessories that sell for under $50 used and read as three times the price on the body. What each…