New Year's LUCKY BAGS in Japan!!! Worth the Hype?

The Hype: Fukubukuro (福袋) or Lucky Bag is a Japanese New Year custom where stores assemble grab bags filled with unknown random contents & sell them at a substantial discount, usually 50% or more off the list price. Popular stores' fukubukuro are often sold out quickly & some stores have lines of people waiting to Get Some! Recently, orders can be made online & the goods delivered or picked up at your convenience. ---------- The Reality: Fukubukuro are an easy way for stores to unload excess & unwanted merchandise from the previous year, due to a Japanese superstition that one must not start the New Year with unwanted items from the previous year & start clean. Nowadays, some fukubukuro are pushed as a lavish New Year's event, where the contents are revealed beforehand, but this practice is criticized as just a renaming of selling things as sets. ---------- ►Support my videos on Patreon (Reward Levels: Post Cards & Snack Packs):   / ericsurf6   ►GRAB A T-SHIRT? https://teespring.com/stores/ericsurf... Use Promo Code: ERICSURF6 for 10% off at checkout. ►SUBSCRIBE for New Videos EVERY Wednesday & Saturday https://www.youtube.com/ericsurf6?sub... ►Instagram: Follow for Day in the Life Japan stuff:   / ericsurf6   ---------- Ericsurf6 Channel: Check Playlists of WHAT YOU MAY LIKE: ►ERIC MEAL TIME: https://goo.gl/VX6iwH ►JAPAN FOODS VENDING MACHINES: https://tinyurl.com/y4rh9t4e ►ASK ERICSURF6 (Q&A): https://goo.gl/VBvdGh ►JAPAN TRAVEL VLOGS: https://tinyurl.com/JapanTravelVlog ---------- *Winners of Snack Packs from the New Year's Feast will be announced in the next Eric Meal Time video (#734). ----------