Happier - Ep. 375: The Easiest Way to Clear Clutter, a Tempting Loophole to Avoid, and How Do You Like to Socialize?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the quickest, easiest, cheapest way to clear clutter, discuss a popular loophole identified by a listener, and explore several know-yourself-better questions that reveal how we prefer to spend time with friends and family. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/375 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier a podcast where we talk about strategies and hacks for creating
0:07.0	happier lives.
0:08.6	This week in honor of spring and spring cleaning, we'll talk about the fastest, easiest
0:13.4	and cheapest way to clear clutter and we'll discuss a set of no-yourself better questions
0:18.6	related to the way we like to spend time with friends and family.
0:34.5	I'm Gretchen Mervyn, a writer whose studies have endless good habits in human nature.
0:38.3	I am of course in my home office here in New York City and joining me today from LA is
0:43.6	my sister Alyssa Kraft and Alyssa, when we spend time together, we mostly like to
0:48.6	drink coffee and sometimes go for a hike.
0:51.9	That's me and Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and yes Gretchen,
0:57.8	you need to come to LA so we can do prime and candle again.
1:00.7	Yes, yes, our favorite hike.
1:03.2	So before we lunch in, Elizabeth, I see your TV is on behind you.
1:07.9	Yes.
1:08.9	I'm having trouble turning my TV off.
1:10.8	I don't know if other people have that issue, but at least it's on like a picture so you're
1:15.8	not seeing CNN going on.
1:18.2	It always feels kind of uncanny when technology refuses to turn off.
1:21.8	You're later like, okay, it's got a mind of its own.
1:24.8	So if you're watching on YouTube, you can see that I'll post a link to YouTube if you
1:28.5	want to go see a list of TV persisting.
1:32.0	And also we got a fun update from a listener related to reading and the four tendencies.
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