Many of us (Japanese) hang a new year's decoration on the door. I bought a decoration at a discount store for 648 yen ($5.27 €4.91). Unfortunetaely, it was a defective product. The printed letters are pasted upside down. I removed it, and …

In Tokyo, the season of heater is coming. I have started using my oil heater. To use it I bought 10 liters of heating oil at a gas station. The price was 944 yen ($7.67 €7.15). I do not have a car, so I went the gas station by bicyle.

I bought a new umbrella for my son at Nankado for 700 yen. Unfortunately that umbrella was stolen at his school, on the day when he brought it to the school for the first time. Probably someone took it. So he never used it. He used his spa…

I bought a laundry clothes hanger with 16 pinches at Seiyu. The price was 626 yen ($5.09 €4.60). My family does not use a drying machine to dry our laundry. We dry them outdoors. To hang clothes, we use total four hangers. Two of them are …

My umbrella which I bought two years ago was broken. And I bought a new umbrella at Seiyu for 1015 yen ($8.32 €7.46). I hope that new umbrella is not broken easily.

My daughter bought an umbrella. The price was 1080 yen ($8.57 €7.77). Her umbrellas are often broken, a rib was bent sometimes. Her semester test is coming soon. But she does not study at all. It is my family's biggest problem.

My family used to use a baby stroller/pushchair. Now my two kids already turned to teenagers. The stroller/pushchair is no more necessary. I asked the local government to pick up the stroller/pushchair as a bulky trash. Its disposal charge…

My daughter bought a sunscreen spray for 670 yen ($5.32 €4.82).Her school sports day was held in June. She used the spray to prevent sunburn. My wife went to the school sports day to see my daughter. I did not go the sports day, because it…

On one day after Mother's day, I bought a carnation pot for 540 yen ($4.29 €3.88). It was a discount price. I do not know the original price. It was only one remaining in the store. Only one pink color pot was avilable at the store.

I bought a plastic tank for heating oil storage at Seiyu. It cost 754 yen ($6.28 €5.13). It can contain 10L of heating oil. I also bought a pump which pump up heating oil from the plastic tank to our oil fan heater. The pump cost 99 yen ($…

This year my family bought an oil fan heater at a department store. It cost 12,480 yen ($104.00 €84.90). My wife also bought 10L of kerosene at a gas station. It cost 1050 yen ($8.75 €7.14). She brought a tank of kerosene with her bicycle …

My family used to have a gas fan heater. But its cord was bitten by the hamster and the fan heater was broken. We bought a new gas fan heater for 24,000 yen ($200.00 €163.27) at a department store. Images below are the cord bitten by the h…

The one-push plug of the bath tub in my house was broken. The wire in the system was broke off. I asked the bath tub manufacturer to fix it. The service man came to my house and replaced the wire. It took half an hour. My wife paid 11,000 …

I bought a floor pillow (cushion) for 1598 yen ($14.27 €11.41) at Seiyu. My son and my wife got an argument and my son broke a glass cup. Broken pieces of the glass scattered on a cushion. My wife throw out that cushion. So I bought a repl…

My cheap electric fan which I bought three years ago got out of order. It did not recover. So I threw it out as a big trash. We cannot dump a big size trash (over 30cm x 30cm) as a daily garbage. In order to dump a big trash, I have to pay…

I bought a kitchen timer for 650 yen ($6.37 €4.74) at a supermarket Life.My son loves to do TV games on his tablet PC. He always plays them endlessly. So we set the time limit of playing TV games. He cannot play the game beyond two hours a…

When my son goes to an all-day tennis club activity, he carries a water bottle to supply water. My wife bought a one liter potable water bottle at Seiyu for my son. It cost 1500 yen ($14.71 €10.87).

I bought three cutain rails at Seiyu. One curtain rail cost 1048 yen ($10.27 €7.59). I also bought two sets of 100cm x 133cm size curtains. One curtain cost 1821 yen ($17.85 €13.19). Here is a photo of the curtain rail. I set up the curtai…

My local ward office collects an over-sized trash which is bigger than 30 cm x 30 cm. Service charge for picking up trash is necessary and the prices vary depending on items. I asked the local office to pick up two used ceiling lights. It …

Yesterday I bought carnation flowers in a pot for 400 yen ($3.92 €2.84) at Tops on the day after Mother's day. Mother's day has already gone, so it was sold with discount price. I think the original price was around double of the discount …

I bought a clothes locker for my son through the internet. My son entered junior high school and he wears his school uniform. So he needs a locker to store his uniform. It cost 10,489 yen ($102.83 €74.39). The locker parts were delivered, …

I bought a pillow for 997 yen ($9.77 €7.07) at Seiyu. I also bought a pillow cover with it. It cost 300 yen ($2.94 €2.13). My son uses them. Micro SD Card = 780 yen ($7.65 €5.53) I bought a micro SD card for my wife at Yamada Denki. She us…

My wife bought a pack of knitting wool for 105 yen ($1.02 €0.73) at a 100 yen shop. She knitted a neckpiece. Pass case = 105 yen ($1.02 €0.73) I bought my pass case at a 100 yen shop. It also cost 105 yen ($1.02 €0.73). Tension rod = 297 y…

I bought a knife for bread for 105 yen ($1.03 €0.77) at a 100 yen shop. Men's underwear = 790 yen ($7.75 €5.77) Another shopping was for my underwear. I bought the following Heattech shirt at Uniqlo. Last time Uniqlo was very crowded and I…

I bought a huggable pillow of lesser panda for my son at a fancy goods shop Passport. It cost 1000 yen ($9.62 €7.09). The store sells various types of pillow pets, including rabbit, bear, monkey, elephant, pig, and lion. ------------------…

In Japan we usually do a major housecleaning at the end of the year. I cleaned glasses in my room. I bought a can of glass cleaner for 258 yen ($2.48 €1.82) at Seiyu. There were many shoppers in stores during December 28 - 31. Some of the …

I bought plastic food packs at a 100 yen shop. It includes 10 packs. It is used for storage foods. I actually used them as boxes for sprouts planters. These are green-peas sprouts. My daughter had done an experiment with using sprouts as a…

I subscribe Asahi-shimbun newspaper. Common Japanese newspaper company delivers the newspaper to the reader's house twice a day, morning edition and evening edition. I subscribe only morning edition. It costs 3720 yen ($38.35 €28.62) per m…

I bought a thermometer for 997 yen ($10.28 €7.79) at Seiyu last week. Unfortunately it was a broken one, did not display right value. I sent it to the manufacturer to fix it on last Thursday. The manufacturer sent the fixed one yesterday. …

Last year I bought a room in the flat. It is an old room, all of 9 screens in net windows were broken. I had to replace all screens this summer. At first, I tried to replace them by myself. But I did not make it. Two net windows are betwee…