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A shop the size of a shelf

Hajimi Mung Bean is not a brand with a warehouse. It is five things on a shelf, and two animals who tested all of them.

Illustration of a cat and a dog sitting together
How it started

It began with a bowl that was slightly too low

Our cat spent a year crouching to eat. The vet mentioned it in passing — a raised bowl would be easier on the neck — and that one sentence sent us down a rabbit hole of forty products that all claimed the same thing.

We bought a dozen. Kept one. That pattern repeated itself with a leash, a bottle, a toy and a bed, until we had a shelf of five things that never get put away.

The shop is just that shelf, opened to other people.

What we hold to

Three rules we don't bend

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Lived in, not listed

Every item spends at least three months in our own home with a cat and a dog before it can be sold. Some never make it.

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Small enough to answer

One person reads the messages. If you ask whether you need something, you get a real answer, not a sales script.

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Five is the limit

A sixth item has to replace one of the five. That rule keeps us from turning into the shops we avoided.

Timeline

How the shelf filled up

  • 2023

    The bowl

    A vet's passing comment, a dozen returns, and one stoneware bowl that ended the search.

  • 2024

    The leash and the bottle

    Two night walks and one very wet bag later, we settled on a reflective lead and a bottle that takes water back.

  • 2025

    The toy and the bed

    A bored dog and a cat who ignored eleven beds before sleeping in the twelfth.

  • 2026

    Opened to everyone

    Five items, one page, no cart system to fight with. You ask, we answer, we post it.

"We would rather sell you one thing that lasts five years than five things that last one."

That is the entire business plan. It also means we sometimes talk people out of a purchase — which, oddly, is the part customers write back about.

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