Years before Facebook existed, Darlene Sovran hosted a small group of friends in her Sudbury, Ont., home for regular swap meets.
“So people would bring their things and we would all gather around,” she said, describing the get-togethers that started in 2000.
“There’s lots of ways you can do it. Some people just have it where they all put things in big piles and people go around grabbing at things the way that I used to run it.”
Those meet-ups went on for years. Sovran said it was a way to give new life to items she no longer needed, and to prevent
