Buysell Technologies Co, the company used by Ms Iwama which collects goods from people's homes and resells them through online stores and at old-style in-person auctions, has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of pandemic-induced tidying.
Many have taken that message to heart and the market for second-hand luxury goods is booming as a result.Pre-pandemic, she would have been spending a lot of time at the gym but after being stuck at home and cleaning her closets more often, she decided to part ways with kimonos that her parents bought her decades ago.
"I thought it was a waste to leave the kimonos just hanging up, and if someone from a younger generation would wear them, that would make me happy," said Ms Iwama, who sold 22 kimonos for 4,000 yen .