"Give me your old stuff!"

[antibling]

Where there's muck, there's brass !:)

There's a guy down the road from me that does this, can be quite lucrative.

[DrownedBeliefs]

We have people like that in the UK called 'Rag and Bone Men'. They're most often gypsies (travellers) making their living selling the scrap from old furniture and appliances. I've never seen a woman doing the job over here, though, hence why we call them 'men'. They can frequently be heard yelling 'RAGBONE!' ad nausium down every street.

Interesting cultural difference, I suppose, as it appears to be more of a formalised business venture in Japan, whereas in the UK, it's people's livelihoods.

[MadGilly]

We get people like that here in the UK, They only take things made of metal and some electicals.They take them to a scrap merchant who pays them by weight and type of metal. Around £350 per tonne for steel and £2000 for copper !

[Lumixster]

Love that tiny lil truck lol

[PounceTeazle]

In Finland you would have the police on your tail for making noise 0.0

If you have heavy stuff you call the recycling yard to collect it, if its light you bring it to the recycling yard, but that concept is pretty new, people where not able to buy enough stuff to have something to throw away, old stuff was recycled by do it yourself into new stuff!

[WABBITS8]

Youre not kidding, it's an issue. My boyfriend broke his case in Japan, so he he bought a new one and asked the receptionist where he could dispose of the old one. She looked at him like he had dropped from Mars. So, we phoned the embassy who called the hotel receptionist to tell them to charge us a tenner, to get rid of it for us. The receptionist couldn't have told us that!?

[Leecher4711]

can´t see anything special about that .. its just a metal collector. you can sell crap metal fr a fortune these days ... apart from that lorry being pretty small ... maybe they don´t expect too many people to make use of it?

[swedespartan]

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[TheLivingDeadOne]

Tell us more about your girlfriend!

[MrKaz106]

Boy, you live in the country side!

[Twiggyay]

Hah! i knew you smoked. all the nice, old, warm, fuzzy people do!

[kabakaba760]

In America the city that i live in drops at least 15 giant metal bins for every residential neighborhood every year on May 10th, to get rid of things like old TV's old washers, refrigerators, matresses anything you want to throw away, then after 4 days they pick up the bins seperate all the metals and plastics for recycle, all woods get recycled aswell 'they turn it into fiber board and card board' so having to pay a fee to get rid of an old washer is abit weird for me atleast.

[JAWdog777]

This doesn't seem like the discrete Japanese way to do stuff like this. I would think that at least they would make like a public list....like Craige's List...for all people's free/ unwanted items for others to pick up.

[hellerZauberer]

It's like the dude from Mony Python. "Birng out yer dead!"

[Chuloloc]

Interesting. I think the best advice is don't bring anything to Japan that you'd want to get rid of later on. Just stuff that is durable and valuable. As far as garbage goes, just throw it in the trash or waste dump. Don't litter. As the saying goes "don't just respect the people but respect the land."

[Snuzzlekin]

ahaha, that face on 0:28

Awesome expression! O.o

[VanagibOtaku]

We have these people in England too, back from when transporting things to dumps was hard (few people had cars)

Look up "rag and bone man"

[mrtest0007]

Silly smoker!

[panfilo98410]

over here in Mexico, we have "el fierrero" you can say a walking yunkyard guy....the thing is that our stuff doesnt work ................:D:D:D:D:D

[missmeansalot]

In Australia we have 'Council Pick-up' twice a year where people can leave their junk on their front lawns to be picked up by the council over a few days. It's funny to see most of your stuff being taken by strangers instead! And of course, seeing things on a neighbour's lawn that were on yours the year before! :D

[kenichisaitohchenii]

I had to buy 20 years old television from my friend with 20 dollars in america.now you have to pay 15000 yen to get rid of your old computer in each city of tokyo.15000 yen?imagine,1 euro is about 130 yen,1 us dollars goes to 90 yen at the moment.

[ICE787709]

lol looks like a hostage situation xD

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Funny!

I hadn't though of that!!

[NesanXIII]

You're smoking? D: NO SILLY OLD DUDE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Kortik]

Did they collect Cloth Hangers right?

[kawaiicupcakegirl]

LOL XD

i would be like shutup :/

[LivingDog94]

Knucklehead, like any Japanese is A-OK! :p

[jbmaru]

With such a sweet voice, I'd find something to dispose of just to see whose voice it is ^^

[109mytiger]

That voice is recorded, if you go to the truck ,you will see only male driver LOL.

[JuuhachigouSama]

Dude, Id be pissed off if some lady went driving thru my neighborhood on a megaphone asking for my old crap at that time of day. ME NEED SLEEEEP.

However, that is really cool of her to take old stuff off your hands without charging you. =)

[makianime13]

cool

[OreWaSulekDesu]

0:54 - Isn't it your car there? :D

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

yes :-)

[OreWaSulekDesu]

Waaah, you smoke! Stop it, it's bad!

[1m2wgood]

smoking kills mate :)

[jpzhmus]

Could you tell what the name of this town is?

[coocoohead1122]

ahahah your facial expressions are hilarious

[AbortedSheepFetus]

lol, its like an Ice Cream Truck over here in America.

Except they take your garbage, instead of selling ice cream :\

ANYWAY, keep up the awesome videos :]

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Never thought about that!

Yes, it is like the ice cream truck!

[hitachi088]

Lol , i lived in japan for about 5years and i never see any car like that ...

autobus and truck talk but i never seen anything like that ...

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Nah, I am a very very happy dude and love my life.

I am just very laid back and not as "SUPER OUT THERE" as many of the folks on Youtube :-)

[Vaetok]

@TheJapanChannelDcom

You seem really sincere, I like your presentation style a lot better than most I see on Youtube. You don't come across as depressed at all to me.

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Thanks :-)

[shamwow00]

when i was in japan......it cost 500$ to throw away your car so people would just leave them on there laws for years

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Yeah, before I got my car I used to walk past a Nissan that would have only been about 8 years old and was in pretty good condition.. but it had been abandoned in a carpark..

of course, nobody stripped or stole it.. so it just sat there teasing me during my long walks!

[shamwow00]

lol thats sucks

[yugiranger]

we have them here in the UK but they only take scrap metal, irons, washing machines and microwaves etc. stuff they can weigh to get paid to get rid of

[nokomarie1963]

Here we have town rubbish pick-up and a dump permit. They don't collect quite a list of things on the town trucks. I have to either haul things to the dump or have them removedfor a fee and so they sit there. Oh, let me tell you, I would want this crew to make a regular stop at my house every week.

[Limastudent]

Love those loud speakers that blast all type of announcements into one's quiet day.

Disturbing the peace here in the states.

[corbraz]

you smoke? o.o

0:28

the stare!

hahahahahahaha

[saemj]

Thanks for sharing, even at the risk of provoking jokes about hiding and smoking pot in the garden shed :P

[K1kuch1]

when i was living in japan, me and my family got a television , microwave and a freezer on the garbage! =)

Good stuff!

[kzzinsky]

This used to happens loads in England. There is even an old black and white comedy series called Steptoe & Son where the two main characters were 'rag and bone men' :)

[valdedasonx]

You can see this every day im my street,people just ignore these guys...

[slimjim88]

We call those people "Mexicans" here in Chicago. They drive threw ally ways in really old shitty pickup trucks and pickup all sorts of metal.

[DaSkateChannelTV]

your ignorant, mexicans cant afford trucks

[geminielf7]

God you just love getting the opportunity to let your racist mouth loose don't ya?

[TwiWitchMuse]

wow scary

[scapenite23]

wow i remember seeing that being done on a cartoon called "shin chan" but i never avtually thought it happened.

[JeremyScottThompson]

this is a bit like having a "rag and bone man" in england...they are very rare, they were most common in the victoria times but i remember one coming down our street about 15years ago

[Lolismad]

0:28 O_O

[mrsebumatica]

are the Zigarets good in Japan ??

y heard that a lot of people are smokers in Jp?? s it true?

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Yep, $3 a packet.

Bad habit!

[awesomenesssssssssss]

we do that in my country is part of the campaing against dengue,some ppl have this stuff on the back yard collecting water

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

First 20 seconds is pretty ugly :-)

Better than being a rude prick though :-)

[DarXLodi]

haha it's cool that you are not mad at those ppl! : D

I think you look so friendly! :P I pretty wish I could come to you and you can explain me how I can do things in japan ^_^

[KipzClaps]

"=_= sorry

[Mrwrinkleintime]

... Smoke all you want... Hey whats growing in the garden out there... :)

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

All kinds of vegetables..

the old guy comes and works his tail off out there :-)

[Mrwrinkleintime]

.... Yea it caught my eye I garden myself... hard work but well worth it...

[ficacci]

we have that in mexico...but they only want metal stuff like aluminium so they can sell it to the junk yard...lol...that van looks like the one that delivers water home by home....nice vid...

[xmadteaparty]

haha we have that where i live too i live at a very small island and here we have one dude that you can give your stuff to and he uses it to stuff xD

[Jemima1377]

Of course I don't understand one word of it, but the sound of the woman's voice remindes me of the one in the submarine. They always sound so sweet and more like they're talking to children.

I would have expected a male voice when it comes to asking for old stuff to get rid off.

Do they always use female voices for those (I don't know what they're called - these voice-overs in shops and stuff)?

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Pretty much always female voices.

Better than a gnarly old dude voice I guess :-)

[TheTwelfthDoctor]

Never thought you smoked, i smoke too, so i'm not judging or anything, just didn't expect it.

=]

[qendu]

do you live there? it looks very quiet and nice ^^

[DSGL]

Oh man that van freaked me out. If I was there I would be waiting for some hellish ambush or for it to explode or something. :E

[wolfyd33]

if your neighbor in Japan wanted to do that to , lets say a tv, can you ask them "May i obtain this television from you? I really like it and i'd feel bad if you threw it away."

[Jackararpter]

thats a good idea actually, pay to get rid of things i like it.

but dont like the fact that u smoke though, will kill you one day u know : >

[TheOneReesy]

Sweet!

[superleggera123]

again awesome