Second Cup: Enjoy your forgotten things

Sometimes the old can be new again

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is to enjoy your forgotten things. Many of us

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have things in our life that we have mostly forgotten about,
but they might still provide some enjoyment, especially if we
can make them seem new again. So around the beginning
of May each year, I bring my sweaters to the cleaners.
After they clean them, they pack them up and give

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them back to me in bags, which I then put
into my closet. I do not open these bags again
until sometime in November, when it is officially sweater weather.
Then each year, the next week or two are quite
fun as I discover sweater after sweater. Now I don't

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have a ton of them, maybe eight total, but I
have mostly forgotten exactly what I own over the course
of six months. Unwrapping each parcel is like getting a
new sweater all over again. I am guessing that many
of us have things in our lives that we aren't

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actively thinking about. Maybe it is books on the shelves.
Maybe it is music or movies that we haven't enjoyed
in a while. I save old magazines, particularly December issues
because I eventually forget what is in there. When I
pull out a magazine from let's say twenty sixteen, it

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is like getting a new magazine in the mail all
over again. But since I already own, I don't have
to buy anything. Of course, one reason these sweaters and
the December magazines feel exciting is that I have put
them away for a while. They aren't really options for

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me for big chunks of the year. If you have
older items you'd like to enjoy as if they were
new again, it might help to put them somewhere that
you won't be accessing. Maybe you only pull out certain
summer movies while you are on summer vacation, that sort

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of thing. But in many cases things wind up being
forgotten about just because well, they aren't in front of
us all the time. So if you are looking for
a little extra enjoyment today, try finding something forgotten and
enjoying it for a little bit. Pull a favorite book

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off a top shelf and read a few pages. Go
through the rec room closet and pull out that card
game that you and your spouse liked playing a few
years ago. See if you can remember what television shows
you enjoyed watching a decade ago and find an old
episode or two somewhere. Everything seems to be streamed somewhere

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these days, and if it is old episodes of What
Not to Wear that floats your boat, well that was
great television. Some stuff deserves to be forgotten. My sweaters
are reasonably classic shapes, but something that was very trendy

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in twenty fifteen maybe should stay put away or, better yet,
get donated. But most of us have some time to
fill and some need to wear things before buying something
new to fill that need. It might be worth seeing
if there is anything around the house that you have
just forgotten about. It might bring a little enjoyment to

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your life, and even a few minutes of joy can
be a bonus in an otherwise normal day. In the meantime,
this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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