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It's been sitting on top of the refrigerator for thirty years. Nobody knows where it came from, and nobody's thought about it twice since the last time someone actually kept cookies in it. Flip it...

A decent wool coat at retail runs $150 at the low end for a basic blend and $400 or more for something with high wool content and real construction. The same coat, three seasons old...

You probably had a box of them. Maybe a carrying case with the molded foam cutouts, or just a shoebox kicked under the bed. They cost about fifty cents each, which is exactly what makes...

The estate sale company quoted $200 for the mid-century credenza. A few weeks later it appeared in a vintage shop for $1,400. That gap is not unusual. Vintage furniture is one of the categories where...

A lot of people need more money right now. Not in a vague, someday sense. Right now, this month, to cover the gap between what they earn and what everything costs. If that's you, the...

That box in the back of the closet. The binder your kid left at your parents' house. The stack of cards rubber-banded together in a junk drawer. Before any of those get donated, tossed, or...

A new Lodge skillet runs about $35 at Target. A new Le Creuset enameled cast iron Dutch oven costs $400. The same pans, decades old and barely used, show up at Goodwill for $5 to...

You're flipping through a box at a yard sale and you find a stack of old records. Most of them are worth exactly what the seller is asking, which is usually a dollar. But one...

Spring gardening has a way of turning into a very expensive personality trait if you let it. You go in for one bag of soil, and suddenly you are somehow pricing raised beds, fancy watering...