Tuesday August 29, 1989

Accounts

¥1400 black garbage pail
¥200 postage: 2 letters
¥540 train
Kamegawa-Beppu-Kamegawa
¥100 red inkpad (for inkan)
¥100 glue
¥100 4 red hooks w/suction cups
¥798 towel rack w/suction cups
¥100 red plastic mixing bowl
¥298 strainer
¥168 luffa
¥750 Japanese poem flash cards
¥200 machine drinks
¥800 deli sushi for two
¥118 consumption tax
¥5872 Total: 5872

Notes from 2009

I remember the difficulty I had trying to carry all these purchases home. The black garbage pail seemed huge. It took up lots of space on the train and it was awkward lugging it on the 20 minute walk home.

I brought both of those black garbage pails home. I used them as packing containers when I shipped my household goods back from Japan. I still use them 20 years later in the garden to collect rain water or hold gravel mulch. In Texas, they are tiny.

 

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