"flea markets", quasi formal and called "Swap Meets" where, in fact, plenty of swapping was actually done. Also some rural communities in the sixties where a certain amount of trading and gifting of excess possessions was done.

Here they do have some drop boxes for donations, or did up through recently, haven't looked or noticed lately, mostly for clothing and bedding "for homeless".

gotta run out and get some meds at my provider (legit) and then we're off to the coast just because it's just right there, a mere hour away, and we're overdue to romp over there and get in some coastal time. (Like Tulsa time, but arguably better and with seafood).

be well and have a good one

I take my stuff to the local Food Bank, where they run a little free store. I took a friend up there and they signed me up. Told them that I have more clothes than I'll ever wear. Asked if they wanted some ladies' suits. They were thrilled with them. Said that they really needed nice clothes for people to wear when looking for jobs. I'm sure your dad has several suits. Look for a Dress for Success type of organization.

Homeless shelters are always looking for hats, ballcaps, socks, gloves, and all those water bottles companies give out for promotional gifts with their logos on them. Things which they can use every day.

...here always busy. It's run by a church group. It was so busy, the landlord of the property had to place cones to keep the cars they attracted from taking the parking spaces of other businesses sharing the property. Somedays the cars are lined up and down the street. There's a few homeless people I see regularly nearby.

I almost never buy anything unless it's absolutely essential, like hardware, building material and a few tools, after the floods. Ms. So buys everything else. Someone offered to give me their late model Audi (they were buying a Porsche) after we lost two cars during the first flood, so we would have two cars again. I turned it down. Before the 2022 flood I had already begun to give away many of my physical possessions. Sporting equipment like exercise machines, bicycles, and other hobby type things I no longer used. I gave them to Amvets, or just put them on the side of the road and someone would come by usually within just a few hours and take them. Same for the old waterlogged appliances, some of which weren't that old.

I have something of a distaste for material things, as they have just become a burden to me. We had to rent a storage shed for those dry things I didn't discard yet, because conceivably they might have a future use, if we buy another home. Which seems less and less likely at this time. I went to the storage place closest to the old house. There's quite a few homeless people staying over there regularly, too. People just sleeping in the shade or in their car or PU if they have one. We bought a large brand new freezer at one point after the first flood, and it was so noisy we gave it to Ms. So's church. The manufacturer wouldn't honor the warranty. It was maybe 3 weeks old. If we don't have a use for something sometimes Ms. So finds someone who can use it. I gave away a few things to workers who worked on our old home. "Here you want this?"

My daughter wants us to move to the other coast. Dragging what's left of our personal property we own over there is something I'm not looking forward to.

The less stuff we have, the better I like it. Flood, wind, and fire, are all hazards to home buying here in Florida. The market is so inflated it's absurd. The sellers don't get it yet. I get scores of emails from realtors and realtor companies every day. Many of the ads say, "price reduced 1,000 dollars or maybe price reduced 10,000. Hey try multiplying by 50 or 10 as the case may be, and maybe you'll get a few nibbles. That's how bad it is.

"Divest yourself of worldly attachments, grasshopper."

Don't buy anything, indeed! Thanks Sima!

I like this song below it's better than the original called Full Bloom. The original is associated with some manga or web tune I don't like, Return to the Volcano, it's too Japanese warrior cult for me. This artist made the cover tune Korean folk music (pan sori guk ak) style:

만개화 (웹툰 화산귀환 OST) - 안예은 Ahn Yieh-eun is the original artist, the cover is by Lee Ah-jin 이아진 a pansori artist. It's about Blooming Plum Blossoms in Spring. It doesn't translate well but sounds good, better than the original imo.