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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 475: Listeners’ “No-Spend February” Ideas, Boost Happiness by Sending Cards, and a Quick Way to Connect

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In honor of National Card and Letter Writing Month, we suggest writing cards or letters to boost happiness—perhaps as part of #Write24in24. We also share listeners’ useful insights and resources from observing “No-Spend February,” and we share a quick, easy, whimsical suggestion for staying in touch. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads @LizCraft on Instagram @LizCraft on Threads @GretchenRubin on ThreadsGet the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/475 Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest New York Times bestselling book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available wherever books are sold. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about how to be, spoiler alert,

0:37.4

happier. This week we'll talk about how we can boost our happiness by writing cards and

0:42.4

letters and we will share listeners idea. about how we can boost our happiness by writing cards and letters,

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and we will share listeners' ideas from No Spend February. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness good habits the five senses in human nature

1:05.4

I'm here in my little home office in New York City and joining me today from LA is my sister Elizabeth Kraft

1:11.2

And Elizabeth I don't believe that I have sent you a letter

1:14.8

or a card in a long time I'm feeling kind of inspired to send you a little surprise

1:19.8

in the mail. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and

1:24.8

Grec I would love to get a nice postcard from you. Maybe one from the Met.

1:28.8

Let's do it. But before we launch in we have some updates related to episode 472 where we talked about why it can be a good idea

1:37.8

when we're having a difficult conversation to have that conversation while walking.

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