More Happier: Back-to-School Hacks (Revisited)

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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As the school year approaches, we’re re-sharing some of our best back-to-school tips and suggestions. Get in touch: [email protected] Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads @LizCraft on Instagram @LizCraft on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes 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

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0:18.7	Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get more happier. Hey Elizabeth, hi Grudge.
0:21.3	Today we are revisiting some of our best back-to-school hacks from over the years and sharing
0:27.2	them with you.
0:28.2	Yeah, it's that time of year when everybody is getting back to school. For me, this back to school period is
0:34.8	looking different these years now that Eleanor is in college, but there is still a
0:39.3	lot to do to get ready. Yeah, Gretchen, I'm proud of myself because I ordered all of Jack's school books, which is one of those
0:46.7	tasks that I dread every single year.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:51.1	Well as we often say, September is the other new year because the long days of summer turn into the routine of work and school and everything becomes just
1:05.0	feel more intense and I think that it's often feel stressful to make this transition.
1:06.0	What do you think, Elizabeth?
1:07.0	Oh, yeah, for sure.
1:09.0	It just feels like there's so much to do and you don't really remember
1:12.0	your school routine every year it's like what time do we have to get up in the morning what time do we have to leave for school
1:18.0	so it's making everything sink again yes yeah first, let's revisit some favorite listener traditions for embracing September as the other new year.
1:31.0	And now for a deep dive, we ask listeners for the traditions that they have related to September
1:38.0	as the other new year, because for many of us, the end of the summer is the other new year, and people have a lot of ways of
1:46.2	marking the end of summer and the return to school routine, work routine, whether or not it's the summer for you, depending on where you live in the world, but that's the feeling of the return to ordinary routine.
2:01.0	Yeah, so let's go through these.
2:03.9	Benet says, speaking of school supplies, Gretchen,
2:07.1	school supplies, or office supplies, art supplies,
2:11.2	just something fresh for my creativity collection.
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