Garage Sales on Rise With Economic Downturn

Garages and yards of Manteca, Calif., offer a crash course in kitchen-table economics each weekend....

As the classified ads put it, everything must go. Socks. Christmas ornaments. Microwave ovens. Three-year-old Marita Duartes tricycle, sold by her mother, Beatriz, to a stranger for $3 even as her daughter was riding it...

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