The 2006 New Years Sale

(Updated: June 14, 2013 with high resolution photos)

Today I went to Akihabara to see if there are any good bargains to be found. I heard that on New Years day, stores sell lucky bags (福袋) which are sold as a set price but you don’t know the contents inside, so it would be like a surprise. I walked around and didn’t find much interesting until I saw the DVD for Howl’s Moving Castle (Studio Ghibli animation movie) being sold for 2006 yen, that it almost half price from the normal price of 4700 yen. Afterwards I went to Yodobashi Camera to see if there was anything cheap to buy. I ended up buying a home appliance “lucky box” for 10,000 yen about $100 CDN. It was very heavy bringing back to the dorm. I was thinking of getting a hot water heater because its so cold in the dorm room, its like a garage because there is no insulation so I can get something hot to drink without having to boil water every time.

Outside Yodobashi Camera, taken with cell phone.

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Inside the box was a Tiger hot water heater which I checked to be selling for 8100 yen at Yodobashi Camera, also Hitachi hair dryer, Tiger yogurt maker, T-FAL Steam Press, Hair Cutter, Mitsubishi water filter pitcher, stainless steel bottle, cup, and fried rice ball maker.

Original Prices that I could find:

Tiger Water Heater = 8100 yen
Hitachi Hair Dryer = 6300 yen

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"The Dream of Home Electronics"

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

man must be hard w/ not much heatin and hot water. good thing u have the thermos now.

sn

Anonymous said...

good deals.
u have a lot of time on your hands to go back and recheck all the prices, lol.

pearl came yesterday, we went to eat at banna leaf and then we walked a bit on robson.

Anonymous said...

you bought all that home (the stuff in the second picture)? man, that looks like a lot of things

Anonymous said...

looks like someone went on a shopping spree, lol

wow, all those appliances in the second picture actually fit into that little box in the third picture? wow, they sure know how to stuff it!


DaYvid