More Happier: Ever Have a Foolish Desire to “Save” Things? And Why Coffee-Table Books?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We talk about the impulse to save things, such as stationery or fine china, even when it makes no sense. And we also talk about the puzzling popularity of coffee-table books. Resources & links related to this episode: Check out my new LinkedIn Learning course on the Four Tendencies How to Write Your Own Personal Commandments Join the "Move 26 in '26" challenge Electric throw blanket Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gretch, as we dive into 2026 on the podcast, we know that so many of us want to focus on wellness.
0:08.0	And I love that Whole Foods Market is basically a one-stop shop for wellness.
0:13.9	You can get great lean protein.
0:17.6	You can find good vitamins.
0:20.6	They have meal shortcuts. If you're doing dry January,
0:24.4	Whole Foods Market has great non-acoholic beer, wine, and mottails. Of course, you have to be 21 plus
0:31.1	in select states to get those. But it's all stuff you can get for a good price. Yes. You can find examples of nourishing and cost-friendly finds that will help you towards whatever
0:42.3	your wellness goal is.
0:44.1	And everything follows whole food market's strict ingredient standards.
0:50.2	Plus, their 365 brand has delicious and wallet-happy varieties of all kinds of foods that are ready to eat or whatever you're looking for.
1:00.1	Shop all things wellness at Whole Foods Market.
1:05.4	Lemonada
1:06.0	Lemanada. Hello and welcome to more happier, a podcast where we get happier.
1:26.2	It's the weekend.
1:30.6	It's a looser atmosphere, looser conversation.
1:36.7	Hey, Elizabeth. Hey, Gretch. Today we'll talk about an ordinary item that is somewhat puzzling. And I share a bunkers example of my impulse to save things. But first, something making us happier. Elizabeth, what's something making you
1:45.9	happier? Well, Gretz, our move 26 and 26 challenge for the podcast is making me happier because
1:55.1	it has officially gotten me back on the treadmill desk on a regular basis. Excellent. Okay, well, I was wondering
2:04.6	about this. Would the card table help free the treadmill desk from all of its stuff? Were you going to
2:10.7	get back into it? Because for years, Elizabeth, you did this just unthinkingly, automatically,
2:16.8	and then it dropped out. So now is it back in
2:20.0	your normal routine? Yes. I just decided, okay, once we decided Move 26 was the challenge.
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