I feel that Canadian people cherish old things way more than Japanese people. I often come across a scene in which they are spreading a sheet in front of their house and selling things they don't need any more. It is called "garage sales" and they sell their second handed things such as an audio set, sofas, tables, kitchenware, clothes and so on. To my surprise, those things can be sold even if they are not so cheap and they are worn out. It's quite natural here that the auction site like Ebay has rapidly got popular. On the other hand in Japan, I have never seen so called garage sales are held around me. Old things were only to be thrown away or recycled by a trading company before the Internet auction site "Yahoo auction" appeared in Japan. Yahoo auction has got popular in Japan just like Ebay in North America, but worn-out things cannot be sold at high price. Japanese people mind a slight scratch just like stamp collectors.
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