Used stuff is the next big trend in Christmas shopping
(WorldNews Business)

This holiday season, most of the Christmas presents Akil McLeod buys for his family members already will have belonged to someone else. It´s a shopping habit that McLeod, who turns 30 on Christmas Day, has been practicing for nearly a decade. Last year he gave his wife a green leather jacket that he bought at a garage sale. It fit like a glove. Once, he shocked his mom with a vintage Gucci purse. `She´s been getting those really unique gifts from me and it´s something that you wouldn´t find at a Macy´s,` said McLeod, a former educator who now works full time reselling items on sites such as EBay and Poshmark from his home in Santa Barbara. Of the $100 he plans to spend this season on...