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 enjoy your forgotten things. Many of us
Speaker 1: have things in our life that we have mostly forgotten about,
Speaker 1: but they might still provide some enjoyment, especially if we
Speaker 1: can make them seem new again. So around the beginning
Speaker 1: of May each year, I bring my sweaters to the cleaners.
Speaker 1: After they clean them, they pack them up and give
Speaker 1: them back to me in bags, which I then put
Speaker 1: into my closet. I do not open these bags again
Speaker 1: until sometime in November, when it is officially sweater weather.
Speaker 1: Then each year, the next week or two are quite
Speaker 1: fun as I discover sweater after sweater. Now I don't
Speaker 1: have a ton of them, maybe eight total, but I
Speaker 1: have mostly forgotten exactly what I own over the course
Speaker 1: of six months. Unwrapping each parcel is like getting a
Speaker 1: new sweater all over again. I am guessing that many
Speaker 1: of us have things in our lives that we aren't
Speaker 1: actively thinking about. Maybe it is books on the shelves.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is music or movies that we haven't enjoyed
Speaker 1: in a while. I save old magazines, particularly December issues
Speaker 1: because I eventually forget what is in there. When I
Speaker 1: pull out a magazine from let's say twenty sixteen, it
Speaker 1: is like getting a new magazine in the mail all
Speaker 1: over again. But since I already own, I don't have
Speaker 1: to buy anything. Of course, one reason these sweaters and
Speaker 1: the December magazines feel exciting is that I have put
Speaker 1: them away for a while. They aren't really options for
Speaker 1: me for big chunks of the year. If you have
Speaker 1: older items you'd like to enjoy as if they were
Speaker 1: new again, it might help to put them somewhere that
Speaker 1: you won't be accessing. Maybe you only pull out certain
Speaker 1: summer movies while you are on summer vacation, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. But in many cases things wind up being
Speaker 1: forgotten about just because well, they aren't in front of
Speaker 1: us all the time. So if you are looking for
Speaker 1: a little extra enjoyment today, try finding something forgotten and
Speaker 1: enjoying it for a little bit. Pull a favorite book
Speaker 1: off a top shelf and read a few pages. Go
Speaker 1: through the rec room closet and pull out that card
Speaker 1: game that you and your spouse liked playing a few
Speaker 1: years ago. See if you can remember what television shows
Speaker 1: you enjoyed watching a decade ago and find an old
Speaker 1: episode or two somewhere. Everything seems to be streamed somewhere
Speaker 1: these days, and if it is old episodes of What
Speaker 1: Not to Wear that floats your boat, well that was
Speaker 1: great television. Some stuff deserves to be forgotten. My sweaters
Speaker 1: are reasonably classic shapes, but something that was very trendy
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen maybe should stay put away or, better yet,
Speaker 1: get donated. But most of us have some time to
Speaker 1: fill and some need to wear things before buying something
Speaker 1: new to fill that need. It might be worth seeing
Speaker 1: if there is anything around the house that you have
Speaker 1: just forgotten about. It might bring a little enjoyment to
Speaker 1: your life, and even a few minutes of joy can
Speaker 1: be a bonus in an otherwise normal day. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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