Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to store things wisely. As the seasons shift,
Speaker 1: you'll want to move seasonal things to new locations, but
Speaker 1: make sure you're taking care of your things at the
Speaker 1: same time. Spring comes and fits and starts. In my
Speaker 1: part of the world, it takes a while before we're
Speaker 1: sure that we won't be wearing our coats anymore, but
Speaker 1: there is a point of no return, and yet inevitably
Speaker 1: June will come and there will still be coats and
Speaker 1: hats and gloves taking up space in the mudroom. I
Speaker 1: will also admit that sometimes I have not noticed that
Speaker 1: I'm not really wearing my sweaters anymore, and I don't
Speaker 1: do anything about that fact, and then they've wound up
Speaker 1: in pretty bad can by the time I pull them
Speaker 1: back out of a drawer in October. So it might
Speaker 1: help to just be a bit more intentional about this.
Speaker 1: Choose a day when you are mostly sure the cold
Speaker 1: weather is done, to move your cold weather things away
Speaker 1: from valuable real estate, and then figure out exactly how
Speaker 1: you are going to store them. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of plastic bins with locking lids for clean items they
Speaker 1: keep spills and critters away, Or perhaps you use garment
Speaker 1: bags or sweater boxes. Think about where these things can go.
Speaker 1: Many people have a closet where they put out of
Speaker 1: seasoned stuff. Hopefully you have some shelves in there where
Speaker 1: you can put things that you don't really need to
Speaker 1: access all that frequently. But if your closets are all
Speaker 1: in high demand, maybe you could slide some bins under
Speaker 1: your bed and use that space too as much as possible.
Speaker 1: You also want to put stuff away, clean, check your
Speaker 1: coat pockets, wash everything, or maybe even send your sweaters
Speaker 1: to the cleaners and have them pack them up. They
Speaker 1: will be all fresh in the fall. Now. Of course,
Speaker 1: it can be a fair amount of work to wash
Speaker 1: things and have a special container for them, so this
Speaker 1: seasonal shift can also nudge you to do some purging.
Speaker 1: Did you ever wear that sweater this winter? If not,
Speaker 1: you probably don't really like it. Did you wear that
Speaker 1: second coat or did the first one really just do
Speaker 1: the job? Maybe you can donate the second one to
Speaker 1: someone who could use it. You can also go through
Speaker 1: and figure out if any mittens are missing matches, if
Speaker 1: you're not going to find those matches. The mittens aren't
Speaker 1: going to be of much use. Best to let them go.
Speaker 1: We don't have a whole lot of natural opportunities to
Speaker 1: go through our stuff unless we're moving, and most people
Speaker 1: don't move all that often, Thank goodness of us, do
Speaker 1: experience at least some change in the seasons. So use
Speaker 1: the occasion to think about your stuff and store what
Speaker 1: you wish to keep. Wisely, it will all emerge in
Speaker 1: much better condition if you do. In the meantime, this
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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