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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of my 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 use it now. Many of us

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Speaker 1: are tempted to save things for special occasions, but life

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Speaker 1: itself can be a special occasion, and we don't want

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Speaker 1: to accidentally wait too long. A few years ago I

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Speaker 1: received an absolutely lovely little notebook. I should add here

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Speaker 1: that I am infatuated with little notebooks in general, but

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Speaker 1: this one had some gold foil on the details and

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Speaker 1: just lovely colors, perfectly exquisite. I didn't want to sully

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Speaker 1: this note book with random work day thoughts, so I

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Speaker 1: put it unopened in my desk drawer until I had

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Speaker 1: worthy enough musings to justify such a beautiful home. Well,

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Speaker 1: you can guess what happened time past. I didn't look

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Speaker 1: in the drawer. About two years later, I pulled the

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Speaker 1: notebook out, looked in it, and realized that it was

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Speaker 1: actually a calendar for a year that had passed, so

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Speaker 1: it wasn't of much use as anything any more. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you have had this experience too. We don't want to

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Speaker 1: use the good china for a random day, but then

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Speaker 1: we never quite have days that seem worthy of the china,

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Speaker 1: and the china sits unused. Maybe you have an entire

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Speaker 1: dining room or formal living room that goes unused. We've

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Speaker 1: all heard stories of people saving a bottle of wine

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Speaker 1: for a special occasion and then something's gone wrong in

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Speaker 1: storage and the bottle is ruined. Several years ago, the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal's wine columnists started an event they called

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Speaker 1: Open that Bottle Night. It is now an annual event

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Speaker 1: in late February. They encouraged readers to open whatever fine

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Speaker 1: wine they were saving and just enjoy it. Even if

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Speaker 1: it happened to be an otherwise ordinary day, they would

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Speaker 1: all celebrate together. I love this idea, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's great for all kinds of things. Decide that one

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Speaker 1: Saturday a month you will use the good china. Everyone

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Speaker 1: can dress up if they like, or you could just

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Speaker 1: eat your cereal out of a nice bowl. Do you

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Speaker 1: risk breaking it? Sure, but it risks getting broken sitting

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Speaker 1: in a closet too, And as I've seen with some

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Speaker 1: estate sales I have witnessed recently, it all gets sold

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Speaker 1: for pennies on the dollar. In the end, you may

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Speaker 1: as well get some enjoyment out of it. Now, I

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Speaker 1: know that first some of us, this is easier said

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Speaker 1: than done. I still have a pile of nice notebooks

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Speaker 1: sitting in my desk drawers. I keep accumulating them and

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Speaker 1: then judging my thoughts unworthy of such fine paper. Real

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Speaker 1: estate people give me things like nice soaps, and then

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Speaker 1: they sit in the closet until they go bad. While

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Speaker 1: I'm using Irish Spring, not because I am necessarily making

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Speaker 1: an active choice, but because the nice soap seemed too

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Speaker 1: nice to use. Even pretty packaged cosmetics do sometimes should

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Speaker 1: I wear such a nice lipstick on a Tuesday. But

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Speaker 1: the soap will be worthless eventually, and since it exists,

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Speaker 1: better to use it, better to get pleasure from it

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Speaker 1: rather than having it wind up in a landfill unused.

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Speaker 1: So in any case, if you are like me, let's

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Speaker 1: commit to using one thing this week that we have

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Speaker 1: been saving for some future time which may never happen.

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Speaker 1: Use that gift card, use that nice soap, open that bottle,

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Speaker 1: and go ahead and write your grocery list and that

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Speaker 1: lovely little notebook. At least the trip to the grocery

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Speaker 1: store will feel extravagant. And these days we need all

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Speaker 1: the adventures we can get in the meantime. This is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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