Every winter, snowplows flatten curbside mailboxes, and every spring the survivors lean a little more. Homeowners want a straight, good-looking mailbox and don't want to dig the hole. One Iowa installer has put in more than 500 since 2023.

Cities, schools and state offices auction off their old stuff by the pallet, and almost nobody bids. One reseller's member paid $1 for two pallets of books and sold about $5,000 of them in a month. Here's how the surplus flip works.

Anyone can list a guitar on Reverb, but most private sellers want cash today and most buyers want a seller with a long track record. One Mesa, Arizona dealer built both, and says he moves more than $2 million of instruments a year.