In my city, there is an additional monthly collection for used, but wearable, clothes. No idea what happens to them, but they do disappear in normal bags on that day. Check your city hall website to see if they have a similar collection.

Regarding the myth of tiny apartments, newly built housing in Japan is larger on average than in most countries in Europe; suburban sprawl in the US makes that country an outlier in terms of housing size.

Who said average house/apartment sizes in Europe were large?

I think it's very hard to compare - because prices in high density/urban areas around the world tend to be more expensive than prices in low density/non-urban areas. No matter what country you're dealing with.

Regardless - I still think 120 suits is an awful lot of suits - for anyone/anywhere. Does anyone disagree? Robyn

I know plenty of executives that have over 100 suits. My uncle has a whole closet dedicated to them.

Please stop projecting your biases as the norm for everyone.

Please stop projecting your biases as the norm for everyone.

+1

Well that is perhaps food for fodder in the Random Questions thread. How many suits does the average man in Japan own? I personally find the number of 100+ rather unusual from a western businessman's point of view. Robyn

:eek:

120 suits is quite a few, and one would try and believe , exceptional ! There are exceptions to every rule ! And if there were to be any socio-economic exceptions it certainly would happen in a place like Tokyo !

BTW, I own 1 suit, but I am certainly an exception !

Well - there's the old saying - about both martinis and breasts. One isn't enough - and 3 are too many. Perhaps there's a similar observation when it comes to suits :).

And - when it comes to martinis - for those of you too young to remember Dorothy Parker - here it goes:

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”

Robyn

I initially thought he was saying that he had suits made of 120's and above fabric, not that he had 120 suits, but maybe the latter was his intention.

Anyway, Salvation Army in Tokyo takes donations by takkyubin if you don't want to hike out to their donation center. I've gone that route before. No COD, though, so you have to pay the shipping fee on your own.

Is it more the norm than the exception for people in Japan to own so many suits? Robyn