Anyway, I thought I would post about all the useless things people use in Japan. Since I like organisation, I am splitting this into categories!
Cutesy things:
Okay, so this is kind of implied when one mentions Japan. And yes, I have been known to, once or twice, fall prey to the cutesy overload one experiences when living here. But, that is irrelevant.
Okay Japan, yes it might be nice for me to have Rilakkuma on my steering wheel, or Hello Kitty on my pillow, but there is a line. Japan crossed that line about 7000 Hello Kitty products ago. I mean come on, I go into a store with Japanese people and Rilakkuma is hanging out on a chord, and I think it is a USB or something, but then it ends up being something you plug into a computer. And then it does nothing. My Japanese friends didnt even understand its purpose.
Really unecessary heating objects:
So, Japan sucks at building warm buildings, so instead they use really stupid things to keep warm. Who needs insulation when you can have a small heatpack to put in your pocket? Fires are made redundant when you have a cozy kotatsu to stick your feet under! (I have been known to enjoy kotastu IMMENSELY but that is irrelevant to this point.) Everyone at school has little blankets to use during lessons, and yes, I have seen snuggies in Japan. With cute Japanese characters on them. I ask myself, why they hell do people bring tiny little battery operated heat packs to school, when you can just have warm buildings in the first place! But alas, nobody listens.
Kotatsu:
Sidenote: in Japan, or at least at my school, stockings are uncool. So there are all these high school girls fricking freezing their legs off because they dont (I know I need an apostrophe, cant quite find one on this keyboard so just bear with me) want to cover their legs up. I dont see what people get from not wearing stockings, maybe boys dont look at their legs as much if they wear them, but I doubt boys at school even care. This is Japan, if the only way a boy can see a girls legs is in a knee length school skirt, hes got something wrong with him. Conclusion, girls, it doesnt matter what the boys think, be warm, wear some tights.
Beauty products:
Guides to help you pluck your eyebrows. Double eyelid makers. More varieties of masks then you have ever seen in your life. Weird side handle razors. Decorated nose/mouth masks. The list goes on.
Eyebrow plucking guide:
Stationery:
From decorated lids to put on your pencils to pieces of plastic to put under the page while you are writing, to sticky notes so decorated and small no writing can fit on them, Japan has it all. Complete with any character you could wish for. Oh, Japan.
Pencil caps:
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