A wagon wheel and some rustic decorative elements near the entrance hint at the down-home atmosphere waiting inside. The parking lot is usually packed with vehicles belonging to folks who’ve ...

That’s the everyday reality at Stuff Etc in Waterloo, Iowa – a secondhand paradise so vast and value-packed that Black Friday shoppers would weep with envy at the deals you’ll find any random Tuesday.

More than three decades ago, Richard Hayden left New York City for Los Angeles, where he thrived as a landscape designer for ...