Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about ideas to help us become happier, healthier,

more productive and more creative.

This week we'll talk about why you might celebrate a personal anniversary and I've got a hack

related to cell phone use.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth today is Halloween

and that got me thinking about you and me and dad and trick-or-treating in our neighborhood

in Kansas City when we were little.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen as I remember

it rained like every single year.

I remember I always had some sort of cardboard in my costume and it would get wet.

Or we had to wear like a parka over like our beautiful costume and only the bottom peeked

Yeah, but it was still...

Yeah, not a problem you face in LA.

No, but it doesn't happen in Los Angeles.

Yeah, so what is Jack doing for Halloween?

He is going to be a ninja.

Okay, he's got the costume like two months ago.

You go to a fun neighborhood where there's tons of trick-or-treating and he trick-or-treats

there with some friends.

Well it's kind of a little bit of a sad milestone for me because Eleanor isn't going trick-or-treating

this year. She's getting dressed up for school because they can dress up for school.

...