A Fukuokan's Notes from Sapporo

These days I have been agonizing over whether or not to go to this exhibition of Japanese folk crafts. My focus should be on the tableware.

I like to see and buy tableware and this show will allow me to do both, if my budget allows. 

I would have gone for it with absolutely no hesitation if it had been five or even three years ago. But now I have grown wise (or stingy) enough to weigh the value of the entrance fee (1,600 yen) against the function of the actual tableware (I bought a set of tableware for less than 1,000 yen at Nitori in Sapporo, and they worked with no problem) 

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And I don't know how long I could handle them without breaking. You might not know this but getting older means getting more pragmatic and clumsier. 

Hoping that I could just look at the merchandise sold outside the exhibition space, I contacted the museum only to be told that I would still have to pay the full entrance fee even to take a look at the souvenir section. This means I'd have to be prepared to splush out to see the tableware that I can't use and more if there's something I fancy at the souvenir section.  

Spending that amount of money for just an hour to please my eyes, or to have a nice lunch at a decent restaurant (alone), or to buy a book or Prime Video that I could enjoy over and over again...that's the question. Oh, I don't even have to think about spending it. Why not save it?