Get rid of items that never wind up in your regular rotation
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is to get rid of old things that you
aren't using or that you won't use now that you
have new items from the holidays. Doing this will reduce
clutter and probably save you time when you can more
easily find the things that you do want to use.
(00:35):
So I recently had a revelation while looking in my
sock drawer. I have eight pairs of winter socks that
I wear on repeat from mid October to May. I
also have about half a dozen pairs of workout socks
that I wear regularly, because well, I do my laundry
weekly and it is the rare week when I am
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exercising more than six times. There are definitely six favorites.
I never dip out of the pool of favorites for
any kind of sock, and so I know exactly which
fourteen pairs of socks I actually wear, and yet oddly
I have many.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
More pairs of socks or worse, individual socks sitting in
my sock drawer. Why are they there? I guess I
wore them at one point in my life or at
least acquired them, but they are never in the rotation.
They have no chance of actually being in the rotation,
since if something happened to the socks I wear, I
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would just replace those socks. These socks I don't wear
were taking up space and making it mildly more challenging
to grab the socks I do wear. So I got
rid of all the stretched out old ones and the
ones with holes. Hey, at least it's a start. Perhaps
you too have things in your home that you never use.
(01:58):
I am guessing you may also have got some new
things over the holidays, which is very exciting if so,
take some time today to think out with the old.
You can grab a big trash bag for trash. You
can find a box or hamper for anything you plan
to donate. Just because you are getting rid of something
doesn't mean it can't be used by somebody else, though
(02:20):
we do need to be realistic here. If you are
donating clothes or household items. In many cases, the nonprofits
that accept these items accept them in order to sell
them in order to raise funds, which means that if
they can't be sold, they will likely be dumped. So
either you are dumping them or the nonprofit is dumping them.
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It might be easier if you just do it. You
can schedule a pickup for donation items from a group
like Green Drop if you have a lot of stuff
to go out the door. But honestly, this out with
the old mindset as we come into the new year
doesn't need to be a huge purge. You can just
recognize that in many cases, when we use things in
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our daily lives, we use the same things over and
over again. I have my favorite pens. I will never
use the cheap free pens I got once in my
drawer because I have a favorite type of pen. If
my favorite pen goes dry, I will buy more of
my favorite pens. The old pens are never going to
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get promoted into regular use, so they can go. When
you get rid of the old things you don't use,
you won't have to wade through these old things that
you don't use in order to find the things that
you do use. We almost always have our favorite things.
In general, it is better not to have too many
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items beyond the favorite things. So getting dressed, or finding
a pen, or even finding a mug in the morning
is a straightforward process. The start of the new year
is as good a time as any to think out
with the old, then it is in with the new
and a much less cluttered life. In the meantime, this
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is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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