Welcome back to my apartment.

It is a beautiful day today.

It is winter, but the sun is shining in and it's super warm in the apartment.

I love it.

So I was planning on doing a bit of de cluttering today because I guess decluttering is kind of in right now, thanks to that Marie condo thing that came out on Netflix.

I haven't actually watched it yet.

Sorry, I've just seen a lot on the Internet, about people starting to decline of their homes and and only keep things that give them joy.

And all that jazz, decluttering and throwing things out in Japan is very different to how things are done in America and Australia in the U.

K.

Like, I'm sure it's different to how you do things as well.

But I thought I'd just share with you guys how decluttering how the whole process works in Japan.

So I've got a few things on my agenda today of exactly what I want to get done, but I think it's better if I just show you guys what needs doing.

And then I could explain it all.

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Let's get kicked.

You I'm sorry.

So what I want to achieve today, Uh, these little guys thes are washing Boston's, but they're out in the open.

We don't have so much space in this room.

And so I kind of want to put him away somewhere, and I have the perfect place to do it.

So this is our border.

This is my side.

Anyway, the main thing that I'm gonna get into a different spot is this.

Come on.

A little inconvenient piece.

This bad boy is our spare through time Now.

We actually use this quite often.

It's very, very useful.

Just when guests come over, people need to say about just got a spare place for them to sleep.

I love this, but it takes up so much space.

But I have an idea of where we can put it on.

Then I want to use the left Davis space in here.

Put these bad boys away.

Okay?

Because I'm gonna be doing a lot of explaining in this video.

I think I should start off with the basics of how to throw away your normal everyday trash in Japan.

So I'll show you our system.

It's the's, a Robin's not like the best set up that you could have in Japan, but it's what we got.

So I have not cleaned these bins, by the way, that just as they normally also, you see our trash.

And I'm really sorry about that, huh?

So we have one bag for Venables.

Venables are a lot of things.

Paper, uh, thin plastic, some hard plastics, food, waste, anything that could burn.

Really?

That's the main garbage that the expendables animals get taken out three days a week for me.

Some places do it two days a week, but it's the most common rubbish that you get.

So we have Venables that we have known Venables.

Non Venables, I think, is every 1 to 2 weeks that they take it out nonverbals of things like a living and foil electron ICS broken Elektronik sort of quite small lightbulbs.

Stuff with metal and glass and stuff all mixed together.

That kind of stuff.

You kind of burn it.

You can't really recycle it cause it's a mix of everything.

So it goes in non valuables, but not non Venables have to be under 30 centimeters.

So if you have a big electronic appliance you cannot throw it out of non valuables.

You have to find a different way, which I will explain later.

In one bag, we have altogether pet bottles, glass bottles and cans.

So with pet bottles before you throw them away, you have to take off the cap and the label and throw it away.

We just put out a burnable trash every bottle.

You have to wash it out, dry it on, then it's ready to go.

We also have yeah, cans and glass, and usually we take them down well together and separate them one way down there because we don't have the space to separate them all individually.

Different bags in the last bag.

We have meat trays and milk cartons.

So for the meat trays, you just wash them out that you drive them and then you put them in here and then with your milk cartons, I'll show you how to do it.

I've already washed us out and I've dried it.

And then I just take my scissors.

I cut down the head, you can rip it, but I just find it a little easier with scissors away across this and then you go you have your flat pack and I just tend to have folded up and it's good to go.

So then we take all those together, take them in the bag.

We take them to our local supermarket because they have a collection point.

Put the trays in the trade box and the milk cartons in the other box.

So yeah, that is all for just normal everyday trash.

But things get a little bit more complicated when they get bigger.

As soon as you go over that 30 centimeter mock, it gets to be a little bit hectic.

Almost got cardboard, cardboard need thio Flatten out, you know, under all the boxes.

Take a much plastic office you can take for us.

We have a cardboard area without trash, so we just pile it up there and then they come around and collect it once a week so it can be a bit confusing.

But the best thing to do?

I'd say it's to look up your local water office's website, and they should have a guide on there in English on how to throw your trash away for your specific area.

Because every area is different.

Everyone's different now, I'm going to see if I can find a place where I'm gonna be able to put the photo and I'll explain more about the lodge items and complicated stuff.

All right, so this cub, it is kind of a problem area for us because it just full of stuff.

It's all stuff that we have used and it's been great, but it would be nice if I could fit the picked on in here.

So that's my goal for today, for example, this I had this back and my last department.

No, I used it for a while, but now we've upgraded to desk says.

And while it was very comfortable, don't really need any more.

So what are my options of getting rid of this size thing?

There is sold.

I got me, which means oversized items.

Now, if you have something like furniture that's broken or something really big that you just can't throw away normal tracks, you could call your local government.

They should have a section about sold.

I got me on the website that you can call all you get a Japanese friend or a colleague to call them point, and you have to explain what item it isn't around, how big it is.

Then you could buy some stickers from your local convenience store, which you put on the items, and then you leave the items out the front of your complex or your house.

After you designated a time for them to come and pick it up, you have to pay them a feat.

I'm actually not sure how much.

Also, a lot of the time I hear this car going around the neighborhood, it's like this kind of tone.

It's like This is the oversized items car like It's very monitoring and it goes all the way through the neighborhood so loud.

So they are like free roaming lodge item.

Take us access, but the thing is, they'll charge you a bit of a B.

I was reading online that someone wanted to get rid of that TV, and they're like, OK, we need a disposal fee of about 4000 which is that $40?

And apparently I think it's cheaper to call the government to take it.

But I guess it is more convenient if they're just going past.

You're just like me.

Take my stuff.

But the other option, which is the one I'm going to do is recycle stores.

So there should be some kind of second hand recycle store in your area.

So I'm gonna have to take this and just carry it, I guess all the way to the Recycle store, I guess in Australia, if we had stuff to get rid off, that was always, like roadside collection.

So I think once a month was something everybody would leave furniture outside and it would be collecting all you could just pile everything into the car and take it to the dump and take you a lot of people that really have caused, So I don't have a car.

Come and put this in the car, take it to the recycle shop.

So I just gotta carry here another thing so that so much to recycle stores can pay you for the stuff that you bring it.

So if you're selling clothes or furniture, if you take it in, they're gonna assess it, and they'll be like, all right, this is worth this much, so they'll pay you a small amount for it, and then they'll sell it for more than what they paid you.

Yeah, so I'm hoping that they'll take this chair.

That's also a couple more things in here that I want to take a three cent store.

So we have this table arrogance to use it for his laptop, but now he's a desk.

We are not going to use this table in the foreseeable future.

I also want to get rid of this suitcase.

So if you have an oversized item and you don't throw it out, you don't have a recycled store or the recycle store.

Where you enough money for it.

You can sell it on the Facebook group, so there's a bunch of them.

There's took your carriage sales and Cyan our sale.

Sign our sales.

If someone is leaving Japan and they want to get rid of all this stuff, they'll be like, Hey, come take my final challenge Really cheap.

That's also a great way of buying furniture when you first get here.

But the hard thing is, if you buy furniture on a sign our sale of something, you have to find a way to get back to your place so you might have to hire a movie vandal transportation thing.

Oh, my tummy hurts.

Just tell me her.

Don't let me down.

We could do it.

Keep it in there.

We shot three shot, please.

Ship?

Yes.

So now I need to do is get rid of the table, the chairs and the suitcase.

All right.

I don't even know if he's going to fit, To be honest, but I didn't even check.

Here's hoping.

My God, did I do it?

Oh, my God.

I did it.

Yes.

Look at that.

It's perfect.

Look at all that space.

Oh, it's beautiful.

It's like a big old walkway.

Amazing.

By the way, I was having another clear out the other day.

Like, what do I do with this guy?

This wonderful hell, if it's been like a huge part of my life here in Japan had it so long.

It's a really nice story.

And how we got it with me, my friend Taylor, but I don't have it out.

It just sits in the cup it all the time, and I feel like there's gonna be a kid out there that would love this so much more than I do, even though I do love it a lot.

Oh, so good for hugs I tried taking plumpy to the Recycle store, but they say that they don't take soft toys.

So I took it all the way home again.

And now I'm like what I do.

So I looked up in Japanese and there was this beautiful website.

I have to read you part of it because I read it in English, translated with Just Google Translate And it's so good.

Hold on, let me get I'm sure it sounds more eloquent in Japanese, but this is badly English.

Translated it.

I love it.

So it begins with a plush toy for which the child has stopped playing.

Even though I want to dispose of it, there is attachment.

I feel sorry somehow and it is hard to throw away.

I understand that.

So they say there are four ways to dispose of stuffed animals for free of my favorite one is disposed of as home garbage.

There I will introduce you have to throw away well, organize your feelings and do not regret.

All right.

Sounds good, right?

Okay.

I will clean up things that a dirty or wipe them sickly in the animal rock the Japanese people clean cloth So wrap it up nicely in papal cloth.

Okay, And that says to salt in sense of purification.

This stuffed toy has finished its role properly.

Thank you until now, and thank you for the pleasant memories.

Rest slowly, so it's kind of like a funeral for the toy.

I think if if burnable garbage is the only way that you could throw away your stuff toys, I think this is a great way to do it.

You wrap it up and then you do this the salted and put it in a little separate bag, and then you tell it gratitude.

You say this stuffed toy has finished its role properly.

Thank you for everything until now.

Rest, rest in peace, rest easily, and then you put it in burnable garbage gets settled files.

I don't think that's the way I'm going to go.

I think that's, uh, not exactly what I want.

It's very interesting, very interesting.

I'll have to figure out what to what to do with them.

Just somebody that will love plumpy a little bit more than I'm currently loving him because he doesn't get any attention, A love it just gets put in the dusty shelf Also, he's very dusty.

I'm gonna put him back.

My nose is reacting.

Oh, now this is also a problem area I hear in the gang con umbrellas out.

Oh, I hurt my head.

It's just just cleaning supplies in a raincoat.