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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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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