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My guest is journalist and author Adam Mentor, his latest book in the subject of today's episode is secondhand,

travels in the new global garage sale. Adam, well, could be econtalk.

Thank you. It's such a pleasure to be here.

Your book's about the market for the extra stuff that we come to realize that we don't want.

We can't store. We don't use. We might be able to sell. We feel guilty about having.

And so on. And you open talking about people who make living,

clearing out houses of old folks and dead folks, sadly.

And talk about that business and what they do with the stuff.

Sure. Well, I think there's probably always been businesses like that,

at least since the Industrial Revolution. But it's in the last 30 years, in particular,

it's become kind of professionalized. It really started becoming professionalized

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