WEBVTT - Use it now 

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of my Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to use it now. Many of us

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<v Speaker 1>are tempted to save things for special occasions, but life

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<v Speaker 1>itself can be a special occasion, and we don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to accidentally wait too long. A few years ago I

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<v Speaker 1>received an absolutely lovely little notebook. I should add here

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<v Speaker 1>that I am infatuated with little notebooks in general, but

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<v Speaker 1>this one had some gold foil on the details and

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

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<v Speaker 1>this note book with random work day thoughts, so I

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<v Speaker 1>put it unopened in my desk drawer until I had

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<v Speaker 1>worthy enough musings to justify such a beautiful home. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>you can guess what happened time past. I didn't look

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<v Speaker 1>in the drawer. About two years later, I pulled the

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<v Speaker 1>notebook out, looked in it, and realized that it was

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<v Speaker 1>actually a calendar for a year that had passed, so

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't of much use as anything any more. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you have had this experience too. We don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>use the good china for a random day, but then

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<v Speaker 1>we never quite have days that seem worthy of the china,

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<v Speaker 1>and the china sits unused. Maybe you have an entire

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<v Speaker 1>dining room or formal living room that goes unused. We've

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<v Speaker 1>all heard stories of people saving a bottle of wine

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<v Speaker 1>for a special occasion and then something's gone wrong in

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<v Speaker 1>storage and the bottle is ruined. Several years ago, the

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<v Speaker 1>Wall Street Journal's wine columnists started an event they called

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<v Speaker 1>Open that Bottle Night. It is now an annual event

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<v Speaker 1>in late February. They encouraged readers to open whatever fine

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<v Speaker 1>wine they were saving and just enjoy it. Even if

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<v Speaker 1>it happened to be an otherwise ordinary day, they would

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<v Speaker 1>all celebrate together. I love this idea, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's great for all kinds of things. Decide that one

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<v Speaker 1>Saturday a month you will use the good china. Everyone

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<v Speaker 1>can dress up if they like, or you could just

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<v Speaker 1>eat your cereal out of a nice bowl. Do you

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<v Speaker 1>risk breaking it? Sure, but it risks getting broken sitting

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<v Speaker 1>in a closet too, And as I've seen with some

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<v Speaker 1>estate sales I have witnessed recently, it all gets sold

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<v Speaker 1>for pennies on the dollar. In the end, you may

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<v Speaker 1>as well get some enjoyment out of it. Now, I

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<v Speaker 1>know that first some of us, this is easier said

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<v Speaker 1>than done. I still have a pile of nice notebooks

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<v Speaker 1>sitting in my desk drawers. I keep accumulating them and

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<v Speaker 1>then judging my thoughts unworthy of such fine paper. Real

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<v Speaker 1>estate people give me things like nice soaps, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they sit in the closet until they go bad. While

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<v Speaker 1>I'm using Irish Spring, not because I am necessarily making

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<v Speaker 1>an active choice, but because the nice soap seemed too

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<v Speaker 1>nice to use. Even pretty packaged cosmetics do sometimes should

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<v Speaker 1>I wear such a nice lipstick on a Tuesday. But

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<v Speaker 1>the soap will be worthless eventually, and since it exists,

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<v Speaker 1>better to use it, better to get pleasure from it

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<v Speaker 1>rather than having it wind up in a landfill unused.

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<v Speaker 1>So in any case, if you are like me, let's

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<v Speaker 1>commit to using one thing this week that we have

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<v Speaker 1>been saving for some future time which may never happen.

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<v Speaker 1>Use that gift card, use that nice soap, open that bottle,

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<v Speaker 1>and go ahead and write your grocery list and that

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<v Speaker 1>lovely little notebook. At least the trip to the grocery

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<v Speaker 1>store will feel extravagant. And these days we need all

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<v Speaker 1>the adventures we can get in the meantime. This is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of

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