There is so much stuff in the world, and it's senseless to throw it away because it's a little faded or smooshed. It creeps me out to see the useful stuff that gets thrown into the trash, whether faded or smooshed or completely new. We're running out of space in our landfills, filling them with things that have a good lot of life still left in them. Yinz oughta read carefully. That said, perhaps Pittsburghers are really fond of garage sales because the Pittsburgh area has a large proportion of older people.
Older people remember the Depression and make financial choices accordingly.
Yinz oughta read carefully. This is also a practice in San Francisco, where I lived for a year . . . What with all the crap we consumed in the 80s and beyond, you've gotta figure that the garage sale trend will only get exponentially more regular as we run out of room for all our superfluous stuff. I don't know why they're so popular. In a real garage sale, the buyer would have haggled the price of the board game down to 25 cents once he realized there were pieces missing and that the game looked absolutely unplayable.