I am a perpetual Value Addict. I have begun to decorate an apartment recently, and although I am more than sufficiently well off enough to just go to Muji and buy an entire apartment's worth of furnishings, I understand that my brain looks at "$1 saved" and sees "$1 I can spend on something frivolous", like another first party Nintendo game or a 4500y Logitech Driving Force GT (nearly 2 decades old! it's still the best driving wheel to me!) or like an Astolfo hoodie or something. (incidentally, my brain looks at "$1 wasted" and thinks "wow but oh well that will never happen again (it happens tomorrow) Nevertheless"
run-on full of parentheticals aside, my ability to sacrifice a little quality for Value, combined with Japan's ability to charge for disposing of large items, means that I have very quickly gotten hooked on going on Japanese Craigslist equivalents. I'm the canon who is hauling myself an hour out to Chiba just to grab some year-old pots for 90% off retail (fair given that 75% of the pots are rusted beyond belief), walking half an hour and back for a gaggle of free plastic storage containers, and carrying a floor chair back during metro rush hour as it precariously attempts to fold itself in half.
it's really quite gratifying in the way that it lets me cheaply decorate this apartment with furniture that is functional enough to live, but cheap enough that I can just pass it on when I figure out how to really make this apartment look like a warm, cozy place, like the wooden equivalent of endless TODOs in the codebase.
anyway the point of this story is that usually you see normal things on Japanese Craigslist, like beds, fridges, old clothes, and more beds, but sometimes you see really unexpected things, like - finally arriving at the cover image - someone who, with presumably the urge to just walk into the metro station and never come back to this city, has just listed an entire yakiniku shop for 40 grand. rent's 1800 a month and it's in the black. first come first served. I hope they're doing alright