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It’s been 3 weeks since we moved to our new place. Everyday, I make an effort to unpack a little and make our home look more like a home. Of course, at this point, I’m sick of unpacking boxes and wondering where I will put things since we have more things than we need. Hopefully, I can get rid of more stuff soon. Here’s a quick peek into what our apartment looks like now. This is our laundry/bath/powder room. It was the first room to be finished which is great since now I can do laundry and have a place to fold and store them.Read More →

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We’ve lived in Japan for 8 years this August. During our time here, we’ve moved twice but this is the first time we have ever done the whole hikkoshi no aisatsu, also known as moving greetings. When you move in Japan, it’s usually polite (and an unspoken expectation) to greet your new neighbors and present them with a small gift. These gifts often come in the form of small hand towels, soba noodles, snacks from your hometown, etc. It’s the US equivalent to how one would go and meet and greet the new neighbors that just moved in by bringing a batch of homemade cookiesRead More →

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We’ve been living at our new apartment for a week already but I still feel like I’m drowning in this endless pile of boxes from our move. So last Monday, everything we owned was packed up. There were so many boxes, it spilled out into the elevator hallway of our floor. I’m sure our neighbors were thrilled to come home to see this wall of boxes. Our old apartment was too small to hold all the boxes which worried me a little since I wasn’t sure if our new one would be able to hold all of these boxes either. Luckily, our new place isRead More →

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Tonight is our last night in our current apartment. We spent the day cleaning and throwing stuff out while the movers packed everything we owned into cardboard boxes. Tomorrow morning, they will finish up with the packing and move everything to the new apartment. It’s been a very tiring day because we have so much stuff to pack and clean. There’s mostly furniture and a few boxes of stuff left now. The movers have loaded up the majority of our boxes into the moving truck. It’s really weird seeing how bare our apartment is. The last time it was this empty was when we firstRead More →