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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, 2016,

it is like getting a new magazine in the mail all over again.

But since I already own it, I don't have to buy anything.

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