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It took a few years but Rachel Reeves of Long Beach, Calif., found the exact bedside tables she was searching for at an estate sale last month. Made in the 1950s from cherry wood, they had a colonial revival look, with tapered legs and carved ridges in the drawers. And at $20 for the pair, the price was right. "It's so exciting to have things that don't look like what everybody else has," said Reeves, 30, a stay-at-home mom with a 3-year-old and a baby on the way Vibram Five Fingers sale has been shopping at estate sales for affordable furnishings since she and her husband bought a house five years ago. "And I like that the tables had a life before I met them," she said. "They had meaning for someone else." Driven by nostalgia, thrift and the thrill ofVibram Five Fingers Sprint hunt, more people like Reeves are shopping at estate or tag sales, lining up before dawn to be the first to rummage through other people's discards, hoping to find inexpensive and one-of-a-kind items for their homes or to resell online Vibram Five Fingers Sprint Pure Black - shoes extra spending money. As the ranks of these shoppers grow, so does the number of sales, both because so many homes are in foreclosure and because baby boomers are downsizing or perhaps selling off the belongings of their infirm or deceased parents. Professional organizers of estate sales say they cannot keep up with demand and that they are working year-round rather than just in spring and summer, when sales were traditionally held. And the sales days, previously just on weekends, are now anytime from Wednesday to Sunday. "I can hardly Vibram Five Fingers Sprint Black - Yellow Shoes p with the calls," said Denise LoSquadro, owner of Sisters in Charge Tag Sale Professionals, which organizes sales on Long Island. For a commission of 25 to 40 percent, organizers like LoSquadro handle all aspects of a sale, including pricing, staging, crowd control, transactions and cleanup. "We help mostly people going into assisted living or going through foreclosure, but also divorcing people who want to get rid of all the skeletons, if you know what I mean," she said. Activity on Estatesales.net confirms the rise in both shoppers and sales.
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