Fukubukuro!!

[kyburg]

This year, I managed to snag four bags - one non-food, three food types. Can't believe my luck -




This is what the non-food bag looked like - see the furoshiki on the top? Just the beginning!


This is the non-food bag. It's a haul and a half - including both shampoo and conditioner, tons of stationery goods, a set of dishes, a really cool picture frame, kitchen goods...so much fun. This is the stuff you normally pass up because you can't justify the $5 or $10 here or there...and all of it for $20. They were gone in fifteen minutes this morning - and I got in line an hour early and counted myself lucky!

The three food bags? $20 each, but each one contained a rice coupon - that's good for a 20 lb. bag of rice, each, valid until March 31st. Then you dug into the bag. Curry sauce, soy sauce, tubes of wasabi and ginger, furikake, soup mixes, cans of tuna, jam (I got two jars of strawberry and one of cranberry, how cool is that?) chews, cookies, Pocky, snacks -

I so love my neighborhood.

And it's a great way to start off the new year. Lunch? Char si bao. Oh yeaaaaah.