{"id":226,"date":"2013-05-14T23:44:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2013-05-14T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:58:12","slug":"costco-in-japan-and-belated-spring-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Costco in Japan and Belated Spring Cleaning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s a word for today, it&#8217;s PRODUCTIVE! But before I jump into my Tuesday, Dan and I did something exciting (to us) yesterday: a trip to Costco!!!<\/p>\n<p>Costco is kind of far from us, but it&#8217;s a nice little taste of home, and a nice break from the high prices of Tokyo. Let&#8217;s take peanut butter for example:<br \/>\nI bought the peanut butter on the left from Costco for about $11 USD, and the one on the right I bought at the grocery store across the street from our apartment for about $6 USD.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s2.photobucket.com\/user\/hardcandy627\/media\/A5.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90%\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.photobucket.com\/albums\/y35\/hardcandy627\/A5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo A5.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;d also like to point out, we&#8217;re not fans of sugary, preservative-y Skippy. The import store stopped selling our beloved natural peanut butter! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>The other great thing about Costco? FRUIT!!!<br \/>\nFresh blackberries<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s2.photobucket.com\/user\/hardcandy627\/media\/A2-4.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90%\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.photobucket.com\/albums\/y35\/hardcandy627\/A2-4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo A2-4.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAgain, fruit is so much cheaper here than the local fruit markets.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to today!<br \/>\nIt was a good work out day because I got in a weight training session and a 6.2 mile run! It&#8217;s definitely warming up here, and I waited til the sun went down to get my run in. Good to get it done though! I&#8217;m finally adding decent distance to my runs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m most proud of all the clothing Dan and I got rid of today. Our closet was spilling over, and we just couldn&#8217;t take it anymore! So out things went!<br \/>\nGot rid of all this!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s2.photobucket.com\/user\/hardcandy627\/media\/A3-3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90%\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.photobucket.com\/albums\/y35\/hardcandy627\/A3-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo A3-3.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd this! (Note Penny napping on my gym bag)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s2.photobucket.com\/user\/hardcandy627\/media\/A4.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"70%\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.photobucket.com\/albums\/y35\/hardcandy627\/A4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo A4.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My biggest problem with cleaning out my wardrobe is my classic excuse: let me lose the weight and then decide. When I had a big weight loss last year, I fit into stuff that hadn&#8217;t fit since college. But that&#8217;s exactly what I looked like when I tried it all on and it fit- a college student! So after holding on to things for years, I ultimately ended up giving them away.<\/p>\n<p>I finally parted with something I was stupidly proud of in college- my Abercrombie &#038; Fitch tank top collection<br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t even all of them!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s2.photobucket.com\/user\/hardcandy627\/media\/A1-4.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"70%\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.photobucket.com\/albums\/y35\/hardcandy627\/A1-4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo A1-4.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen I was in college in the early-mid 2000&#8217;s, it was very trendy to layer these over each other. Or wear under a polo. I just loved them. I&#8217;ve worn them as recently as last fall, when v-neck tees were making the rounds, but other than that, they just sat around. So I gave most of them away. I saved the white ones and a couple colors. Oh, the space it freed up!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m incredibly excited about my cleaned out closet, silly as it seems. This apartment is so small and it can be really frustrating sometimes. Up next: tackling all my beauty junk under the sink! wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p><strong>QOTD:<\/strong> Are you a packrat, or do you part with things easily?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s a word for today, it&#8217;s PRODUCTIVE! But before I jump into my Tuesday, Dan and I did something exciting (to us) yesterday: a trip to Costco!!! Costco is kind of far from us, but it&#8217;s a nice little taste of home, and a nice break from the high prices of Tokyo. 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