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Following your yard-sale urge may pay off

Fluorescent yard sale signs do not light me up. So why am I turning down this neighborhood street following these hot pink, green and orange beacons? Thirty-plus years of experience is screaming at me, "You're wasting your time -- when is the last time you found period furniture at a yard sale? Almost never!"

Look for silver linings in old silver

Before finishing the first paragraph about antique silver in the Antiques Roadshow Primer, a book spawned from the popular PBS series, you'll be downstairs pulling out all your family's fine silver to see if it is indeed sterling silver and if it is valuable.

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