Short-sleeve top: 2520. Jeans: 3,045. Skirt: 2520. Jacket: 4095. Long sleeve: 2.520. Total: 5000. Yes, that doesn't add up. That's a Lucky Bag!! Plus it came in a cloth bag that I will be able to use again.
Mine. I very rarely get one, they don't usually have one in my size, and the usually have a jacket, and I don't want a new jacket every year. This one was from Youme Town, I think it was 5000, for six pieces, jacket, long-sleeve top, sweater, floral top, check shirt and tights.
This jewellery and hair accessories one was 1000 - pretty good considering the clips sell for 3-500 each, and the necklaces for 5-700. This was a genuine Lucky Dip - no peeping! But with four girls in the house, everything was bound to be claimed by someone!
1000 yen again. Amy and Lena got the tissue case and hair band, I needed the new cosmetics cases.
5000 yen for Amy and Lena's ones, including jeans, a lap blanket, jacket, plus a top and another hooded jacket and skirt.
We also got bedding sest - pillow, blanket, lap rug and duvet cover for 5000, Lilo and Stitch for Erica (she now LOVES her Stitch pillow) and Relakkuma for Lena.
A lot of people don't like Lucky Bags because, well, you don't get to choose what's in them. But I found that nearly all the bags this year are very clearly labeled, and they are so much cheaper than the rest of the year that is was worth getting one item or even two you didn't like all that much, just to get the good deal.
Amy wore a kimono on New Year's Day, one of the few occasions these days that girls can wear one. She's big enough now to fit into a women's size, which was the cause of great disappointment for her in November when we dressed Lena for the 7-5-3 festival, and none of the kimonos fit her. But she made up for it today! Here she is outside Nakatsu Shrine.
The girls with their Dad. Technically this is just before we went to the shrine, not that that makes the slightest difference...
And with their Mum.
After the shrine we indulged in what has a become a New Year ritual and a way to escape all that osechi and sukiyaki - a trip to the ice cream store, where Amy was, yet again, unsurprisingly, the centre of attention with all eyes on her. She hardly noticed, I think she used to be stared at.
Lena
Short-sleeve top: 2520. Jeans: 3,045. Skirt: 2520. Jacket: 4095. Long sleeve: 2.520. Total: 5000. Yes, that doesn't add up. That's a Lucky Bag!! Plus it came in a cloth bag that I will be able to use again.
Mine. I very rarely get one, they don't usually have one in my size, and the usually have a jacket, and I don't want a new jacket every year. This one was from Youme Town, I think it was 5000, for six pieces, jacket, long-sleeve top, sweater, floral top, check shirt and tights.
This jewellery and hair accessories one was 1000 - pretty good considering the clips sell for 3-500 each, and the necklaces for 5-700. This was a genuine Lucky Dip - no peeping! But with four girls in the house, everything was bound to be claimed by someone!
1000 yen again. Amy and Lena got the tissue case and hair band, I needed the new cosmetics cases.
5000 yen for Amy and Lena's ones, including jeans, a lap blanket, jacket, plus a top and another hooded jacket and skirt.
Do I really have to drink this? Lena just touches a drop to her lip.
