Name: Why it's so hard to DECLUTTER in Japan
Uploaded: 2020-03-21T08:41:04.000Z
Duration: 15 min 56 s
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It is winter, but the sun is shining in and it's super warm in the apartment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This bad boy is our spare through time Now.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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