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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 77: Plan an Errand Date

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 77: We talk about why it's fun to plan an "errand date," a happiness hack for dealing with other people's clutter, abd the value of improving the nasty areas of your home. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected]; happiercast.com/77; 774-277-9336. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about happiness, the lessons from

0:06.2

science, from ancient wisdom, from pop culture and our own experiences.

0:10.8

This week we'll talk about the fun of going on an errand date and why it's a good idea

0:15.3

to fix anything smelly, moldy or sticky in your home.

0:19.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness could have its human nature.

0:29.0

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

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And Elizabeth, the next time we are in the same city, we are definitely going on an errand

0:36.4

date together.

0:37.4

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

0:42.0

And Gretchen right now I have to say it's too hot to do any errands at all.

0:46.8

And I got into our car yesterday, it was 122.

0:51.1

Oh my gosh.

0:52.4

It did quickly go down to 99, but still, sitting in the hot sun, it got up to 122.

0:57.8

So, heat wave.

0:59.7

We'll make it to do list, that will be our errand that we did together.

1:04.0

Yeah.

1:05.0

And Elizabeth, also we got a really interesting email from our listener, Imaging, in response

1:09.1

to the discussion in episode 26 about choosing one word or a short phrase to set a theme for

1:13.9

the year.

1:14.9

I thought this was really interesting.

1:16.2

Yeah, her theme for the year was more music.

1:20.3

So she says, I've been thinking for a while about what I did for fun as a child slash

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