{"id":2194,"date":"2013-01-26T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-26\/2194"},"modified":"2013-01-26T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T01:06:19","slug":"in-kyoto-and-want-to-get-rid-of-stuff-call-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-26\/2194","title":{"rendered":"In Kyoto and Want to Get Rid Of Stuff? Call This Guy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>We've been accumulating stuff we want to get rid of that's too big to\nput into the normal trash.... stuff that's become trash (an old couch, <span class='nobr'>a\nlarge<\/span> broken lamp, ...) or that we just don't need anymore (<span class='nobr'>a photo<\/span>\nprinter, Anthony's old bicycle, an old LCD monitor...). There was <span class='nobr'>a lot,<\/span> and it was finally time to deal with it.<\/p>\n\n<p>I searching on Yahoo! Japan <span class='nobr'>(\u5927\u578b<\/span>\u30b4\u30df <span class='nobr'>\u51e6\u5206<\/span> <span class='nobr'>\u4eac\u90fd)<\/span> and picked <a href='http:\/\/araisyoten.main.jp\/page6.html'><span class='nobr'>\u4eac\u90fd<\/span> <span class='nobr'>\u4e0d\u7528\u54c1\u56de\u53ce<\/span>\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u3000\u3068\u304f\u3068\u304f<\/a>,\nand <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> regret it.<\/p>\n\n<p>I gave the guy a call, he came over an hour later with <span class='nobr'>a little<\/span> truck,\nand we looked at what <span class='nobr'>I wanted<\/span> to get rid of, and for each thing he told me\nwhether he'd take it for free and if not, how much it would cost. <span class='nobr'>I just wanted<\/span> to get rid of everything, and was shocked when he told me the total\nfee would be only &yen;7,800 (US$85). <span class='nobr'>I was expecting<\/span> 3&times;\u301c4&times; that amount.<\/p>\n\n<p>He left with a very full truck, and <span class='nobr'>I gained<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a commodity<\/span> that in this country ranks in value behind only time and health: space.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you're in the Kyoto area and want to get rid of stuff (and can speak Japanese), <span class='nobr'>I highly<\/span> recommend this guy.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We've been accumulating stuff we want to get rid of that's too big to put into the normal trash.... stuff that's become trash (an old couch, a large broken lamp, ...) or that we just don't need anymore (a photo printer, Anthony's old bicycle, an old LCD monitor...). There was a lot, and it was finally time to deal with it.<\/p> <p>I searching on Yahoo! Japan (\u5927\u578b\u30b4\u30df \u51e6\u5206 \u4eac\u90fd) and picked \u4eac\u90fd \u4e0d\u7528\u54c1\u56de\u53ce\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u3000\u3068\u304f\u3068\u304f, and I don't regret it.<\/p> <p>I gave the guy a call, he came over an hour later with a little truck, and we looked at what I [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}