Glad the book printer arrangement is going to work out!

I did check out some of the sources you mention SRS, thanks for the reminder; not a hotbed of Freecycle here, but I should start monitoring Craigslist. And I may have to get with a friend who uses Facebook and make up a list of garage sales, perhaps I could handle forays on alternate Saturdays.

Yes, it would be nice if we could ship excess 'stuff' to Florida for someone who needs it. I wonder if the national Goodwill network already has plans to relocate truckloads of stuff, seems like plenty of donors would step up to help.

Meanwhile outside of a big metro, what I saw at auction and thrifts last week were stuffed furniture you better get a bedbug inspection on, and giant 'beds' and entertainment walls that were oversized arrangements of shelves, lights, etc., perhaps 400 pounds of excess. Nobody wants these. Nor the dark Victorian monstrosities they apparently descended from. Then there's some aging-badly laminate stuff. I think whenever decent small pieces come up, they get snapped up by entrepreneurs who paint and sell them in cute shops.   

When I visited High Point NC, the showrooms still exist, but darn few local manufacturers. Our overlords shipped 95% of production to Asia many years ago. That area is down in the Piedmont rolling hills area, not the mountainy places that got socked so very hard by Helene. But I imagine Helene still hit some local artisan makers in Asheville and NC hard. Those areas dependent on tourist traffic were just getting back on their feet after covid, and now this.