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  1. 10-25-2008, 02:19 PM #1
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    Yard Sales Boom in Bad Times

    October 25, 2008
    As Yard Sales Boom, Sentiment First Thing to Go
    By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
    MANTECA, Calif. — As the classified ads put it, everything must go. Socks. Christmas ornaments. Microwave ovens. Three-year-old Marita Duarte’s tricycle was sold by her mother, Beatriz, to a stranger for $3 even as her daughter was riding it.

    On Mission Ridge Drive and other avenues, lanes and ways in this formerly booming community, even birthday celebrations must go. “It was no money, no birthday,â€
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  2. 10-25-2008, 03:35 PM #2
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    this is so sad I am at a loss for words
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    Quote Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7
    this is so sad I am at a loss for words
    Me too.

    Maybe this is how bad (maybe even worse) it has to get before Americans realize how materialistic we have become.
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