After the biggest generational spending spree in history, boomers are beginning to downsize. But unloading all that stuff is proving harder than they thought. IT'S 8:55 A.M. ON A CRISP THURSDAY morning in the exclusive New Jersey suburb of Bernards Township, and at 34 Emily Rd., more than 60 people are lined up impatiently outside the front door. Inside, owners Mark and Mary Tuller, who were up most of the night and feel like? "zombies," are girding themselves for the onslaughts a three-day crush of strangers pouring into their home, pawing through their family's stuff. Attic to basement, nearly everything is tagged with a price, from the mahogany dining room break-front ($5,000) to the half-used cans of spray starch (50 cents).
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