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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to note what you don't miss in

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Speaker 1: your life in these pandemic days. If you don't miss something,

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Speaker 1: this is a sign that you might be able to

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Speaker 1: save some time or money in the future. I co

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Speaker 1: host a podcast called Best of Both Worlds, and my

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Speaker 1: co host Sarah hart Unger, mentioned on a recent episode

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Speaker 1: that she and her husband had, like so many couples,

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Speaker 1: stopped doing date nights in March. Restaurants and movie theaters

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Speaker 1: were closed. Her occasional babysitters were sheltering in place too.

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Speaker 1: But while some people really missed date nights, she said,

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Speaker 1: she realized that she just didn't. She assumed that this

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Speaker 1: was something that they were puposed to do for their marriage,

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Speaker 1: and so they've been dropping well over a hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: two to three times per month for a Saturday night

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Speaker 1: of babysitting and a really nice dinner out. There turn

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Speaker 1: out to be ways to connect as a couple without

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Speaker 1: dropping that kind of cash, For instance, sending the kids

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Speaker 1: to someone else's house for a few hours and then

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Speaker 1: hanging out with her husband at home, so that was

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Speaker 1: money that could go straight to the household bottom line.

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Speaker 1: Many of us have spent the past few months lamenting

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Speaker 1: what we do miss, and trust me, there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of things worth missing. I do miss dinners out,

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Speaker 1: I don't miss wrestling multiple children into a car by

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Speaker 1: a certain time. I dearly miss speaking in front of

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Speaker 1: live audiences. But well, I've never liked flying, so I

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Speaker 1: don't miss my airport and airplane time. I have a

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Speaker 1: gym membership, but I definitely have found ways to work

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Speaker 1: out that don't involve going to the gym. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: running that many errands in person before, but I'm running

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Speaker 1: even fewer now and it's not made my life worse.

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Speaker 1: If your life seems fine without something, well, there's no

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Speaker 1: real reason to start doing it again When it's possible.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to start visiting people that you didn't

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Speaker 1: like to visit before. You don't have to restart activities

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Speaker 1: that were a hassle. If you don't miss being in

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Speaker 1: the office, well, time to negotiate a long term work

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Speaker 1: from home arrangement and minimize the commuting time in your life.

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Speaker 1: For more about that, you might want to check out

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Speaker 1: my other podcast, The New Corner Office. In any case, today,

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Speaker 1: spend some time actively thinking about this question, what do

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Speaker 1: you not miss? It's actually a little hard to picture

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Speaker 1: what we don't miss, because well, life feels perfectly fine

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Speaker 1: without it. You've probably just put it out of your mind.

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Speaker 1: You might have to look through old calendar entries or

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Speaker 1: weekend task lists to get an idea, but note what

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Speaker 1: you haven't been missing, and then strategize how to delay

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Speaker 1: or chuck these things rings entirely. Your calendar and possibly

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Speaker 1: your wallet will feel better for it. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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