If you sit outside long enough...

...everything you need will come walking past. At least if you live in a local street, or soi, in Bangkok, Thailand as my brother does. We used some United miles for a Hong Kong to Bangkok round trip for the weekend so we could visit him and his wife and two year old son. We didn't feel like rushing around seeing the sights since we've been on the move so much the last few months, so we spent the weekend lazing in the front courtyard as you tend to do in the tropics. In the process we got an intense dose of the variety of sights, sounds, smells and tastes that we've been missing since we left Asia a little over a year ago, as all manner of vendors of food, household goods, furniture, plants and other stuff came wandering down the street transported on a variety of carts that were mostly motorcycles in a former life.

You do of course need to let go of your western desire for instant gratification, since stuff will come when it comes, not necessarily when you decide you need it, so a more patient approach is required. As a Buddhist monk might say "the ox is slow but the earth is patient".