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in the life of... A secondhand store owner
When you work in the secondhand business, someone trying to sell you a bear rug is old hat.
Although Yellow House Store, 1904 Massachusetts Street, mainly buys major appliances, you can hawk your guitars, video games or bricks from your backyard. Guy Neighbors has been in the secondhand business for 21 years and is co-owner of Yellow House. His wife, Carrie, also owns the business and Guy says he's second in command. When his mother-in-law is around, he's bumped down to third, he says.
Yellow House's business has picked up as the country's economic situation has worsened, Neighbors says. He says people don't want to pay for an expensive, new major appliance. Neighbors says he cleans all the appliances with bleach and touches up the paint.
Photo by Adam Schoof
If you want to sell something to Yellow House, bring it in and Neighbors will check the value of it on eBay. Then he'll negotiate a price around the prices he finds online. Neighbors says people have tried to out-bargain him in his own store, and he's had to ask them to leave.
Take a second look: Guy Neighbors says secondhand business Yellow House Store, 1904 Massachusetts Street, has picked up the economy as has worsened.
Neighbors says his secondhand business
is good for the community because "the stuff we're restoring would probably end up in a landfill."
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