Hey friends, I got something to share to you that might do you good too like what has happened to me.

 I got this fondness of buying surplus/secondhand items from a Japan Surplus store.  I usually buy porcelains from the branded Noritake to the ordinary ones depending on my available budget.  Japan Surplus store is like a house - it has complete range of items from rugs to electronic devices such as computer monitors, CPUs and the like for absolutely cheaper cost. They also got stationery and other paper products.  In my  journey to find a unique item - I am looking every box and every item displayed, I even saw photo albums with pictures inside wondering why the album is put on sold.  That really means that the items are really used by other people. Funny but creepy, I even thought that the items are from the homes of tsunami victims - scrap.. because for me photos are kept for memories..maybe that is the reason why I found money from the stationery my child has picked-up for her toy.

There's a Kanji writing in the envelope which I could not read- I assumed that it is a name - I heard that Chinese and Japanese people like giving gifts of money to their friends.  We went home from the shop, my and my daughter without knowing that we brought home some little fortune that day. It took us months to discover that there is something inside two of the envelopes.  

I was really broke that day after paying some bills.  I was imagining of what if...I started checking every

 

     

small envelopes and postcard my daughter had brought home from the shop months ago.  I patiently opened each (maybe 4 sets of big and 3 sets of small envelopes still in adhesive-plastic.  The first envelopes had nothing in them until the fourth and second to the last I found ten thousand yen each!

I heard stories of money found from pockets of "ukay" (used/secondhand) clothes as well as in bags too but  my experience taught me that there's still other ways..