Comments on: Top 10 Ways to save ¥788,600 while in Japan

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:47:47 +0000

Here’d how I saved 2 million yen in 2 years, and still di what i wanted, pretty much

Be a hermit (ie, selective about your “friendships” with other foreigners you wouldn’t in all honesty cross the road for if you were back your own country)
Get a JET gig.
Do Eikaiwa on the side.
Have fun in your first year here, but after that don’t waste money on asian travel, snowboarding trips, or all those other things people tell you have to do.
Buy a rice cooker, and eat rice a lot.

That’s all.

By: JLPT

JLPT — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:06:19 +0000

You forgot “Don’t get a job teaching English”

By: AnnaI

AnnaI — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:19:24 +0000

I so agree on the mac – the best purchase ever! And just image all the money you save on PC doctors when your PC catches whatever it is that they catch theses days. I’ll pass on the iPhone, though.

About houses, I guess it depends on the area. Where we live apartments are way cheaper. In many pets are allowed and we got free parking too. Having lived in a house before, I can also say that our heating costs are lower now

And I need to try me that TV on the computer thingie, because we don’t have a TV at all.
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By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:41:59 +0000

well I’ll just ignore the mac part because it just baffles me

cheers for the freestuffjapan mailing list though, looks interesting.