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Also, people have so much STUFF that we have a 700 mile yard sale in the mid south/central, and another 70 mile yeard sale somewhere else.

Yep. We have one that goes right through our town here in KY. It’s the “400 mile” yard sale. It’s lame, and I’ll tell you why: In Seattle, where we lived for decades, we discovered that the affluence level was such that nobody wants people’s throwaways. The last year we were there, pretty much every non-food item we got was from garage sales, craigslist or estate sales. And estate sales are the BEST. We bought items for pennies on the dollar. We considered it fiscally irresponsible to buy many items new.

Now fast forward to KY. Rural KY is, in some ways, like living in a third world country. People are definitely poorer here. And the real estate taxes and cost of living are so low that you can live on ridiculously low income. But it means a huge part of the population shops at garage sales and “Peddlers’ mall”. This results in a peculiar supply and demand formula.

i.e. stuff is WAY too expensive at garage sales to even bother. Some stuff is more expensive than new, and a fair amount of it (much worse than in Seattle) just needs to go to the dump.

We stopped wasting our time.