When I attended my first estate sale two months ago, and the living room looked like this (see pic to the left), it confused me. Was it customary for the people holding estate sales to throw everything out in the open so buyers could see it all?
The answer was no. If anything, those running the estate sale had tried to clean things up a bit. And it had taken them six days to whip the living room into this not-quite presentable condition. The problem, I soon foun