Facebook buy-and-sell groups are year-round twist on garage sales

Erin Hughes folds clothes for her Facebook page, Erin's Cleaning Purge, a social-network yard sale, on Feb. 23, 2016 in Wichita, Kan. (Mike Hutmacher/Wichita Eagle/TNS)

WICHITA, Kansas: There's nothing quite so serendipitous as stumbling over a good garage sale – when the weather is nice. 

But if you're looking to make a little cash by getting rid of your stuff, the Internet, with its relentlessly specific and targeted abilities, bypasses the need to tag things, borrow tables and clothes racks to display them, open the driveway to the public, and wait for spring.