Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone knows of efficient ways to get rid of junk from the household.
Ideally what I would like is to pay for a service that will give me boxes to fill up and then take them away to do whatever with.
I know that I could take them to collection organizations but I don’t want to list everything. The more I look at something the less likely I’ll get rid of it, using usefulness as an excuse.
My junk consists of electronics, clothes, and tools I brought over from the US 5 years ago.
Thank you in advance for reading and offering recommendations.
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Bring them all to your local recycle shop and they’ll give you a few yen
If you can’t be bothered with Mercari, Second Street or Treasure Factory will take them off your hands at vastly reduced prices.
Btw, I wonder if there’s a service where someone will do all the Mercari work and take 30% of the sales or the like?
Have you looked into a waste management center in your area? We have one nearby, and we’ve used it on a couple of occasions for furniture and electronics. Clothes, we can bundle up in a garbage bag and throw out on a specific day of the week as we do with burnable trash.
Edit: For the waste center, we needed proof of living in that jurisdiction. (Driver’s license, residence card)
If it is “Junk” then you should be able to have it collected as sodium gomi by city hall. There should be an online form, which is just name, address and what junk is being disposed of and where you going to leave it.
Buy the correct number of stickers from a convenience store (¥370 each). Then send the form and they’ll call you to confirm pick up.
Hard off and book off are the places for furniture and electronics respectively.
If you’re outside of the 23 wards you may have a place to go by car where your junk is weighed and then you pay, pretty much the same amount as you would for sodai gomi pickup.
Check your city hall website for ‘sodai gomi’ / ‘oversized garbage’.
We have put things out in a box labelled ご自由にどうぞう and had most of the things taken in our relatively low-traffic unban area.
Some of it I’m sure other people will take (if you’re not super in the middle of nowhere). You can try looking into Facebook groups (like Mottenai Japan).
If you have a car, then you can drive to your local garbage center. Ours takes a carload for 1,500 yen. You can take electronics but not old TVs, aircons, fridges, etc.
If it’s junk then you won’t be able to sell it at any recycle shops.
Could try Jimoti or else look for flyers every month from companies that will either pick up the stuff for free or you pay per truck load to get rid of.
Mercari if you want to make a bit of scratch and don’t mind some work taking pictures, posting, shipping etc.
The nearest Hard Off if you just want to get rid of stuff.
I have taken lots of stuff like you listed before the the city waste management center.
You will need to stuff it all in a car/ truck.
Tell them what you got.
They will guide you by type of trash and you just dump it there.
After they will weigh your car as you leave and charge you for the difference in weight.
Best way if you have lots of different types of trash.
Be sure to arrange each type together when loading it upZ
Clothing not worth selling – put in big garbage bags and drop off for free at your local Muji for fabric recycling.
Large stuff, put up on Jimoty for free or super cheap – unless it’s absolute garbage someone will come take it away pretty quickly
Mottainai fb group also good for getting rid of useful
Things for free, but people there can be VERY unreliable. A ton of people will say me me me I desperately want it!!! Then not show up and ghost you on the day of collection 🤦♂️ So don’t be trying to do this at the last minute for sure
Second Street etc will come to your place, “assess” your stuff, and then give you like maybe ¥1000 to clean you out. It’s absolutely rubbish money wise but at least you’ll be done with getting rid of all the things with minimal effort.