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Good morning. This is Laura.

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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.

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 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 14 pairs of socks

I actually wear. And yet oddly, I have many 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 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.

I am guessing you may also have gotten 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.

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