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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: What Makes a Holiday Movie? Plus Holiday Creep & the Joy of a Long Vacation

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We debate how to decide if a movie counts as a “holiday” movie. We also discuss how the holiday season seems to be morphing into one long celebration, with Halloween flowing directly into Christmas. Plus, we share what's making us happier: the anticipation of hosting a holiday gathering and the special joy of having a child home from college for a long visit. Resources and links related to this episode: #TheHappinessProjectCollection Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (Amazon, Bookshop)    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

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1:20.8

Music Hello, we are here for more happier, a podcast where we get more happier.

1:41.4

It's the weekend. It's a bit of a looser vibe. Hey, Elizabeth. Hey, Gratch. Today we'll debate how to decide if a movie qualifies as an official holiday movie, and we will discuss a new and controversial trend in the holiday season. But first, something making us more happier. Elizabeth, what's making you more happier?

1:44.8

Well, Gretz, we're talking about a lot of holiday stuff today.

1:52.0

Yeah. And something making me more happier is my preparations for hosting Christmas this year.

2:00.3

Mm-hmm. So Adam and I and Jack are hosting the Fierro side of the family for Christmas Eve. His side of the family does a big Christmas Eve party every

2:02.4

year. And it's at our house. And so I'm really embracing, just prepping for it on the theory that

2:10.4

the more I lean into it and prep early, the less I will suffer from hostess neurosis when the time comes.

2:17.9

The curse of our family, hostess neurosis.

2:20.2

So I'm enjoying things like I wanted to get some Christmas tapered candles.

2:26.0

Oh.

2:26.5

So I looked online and then I went to home goods and looked at all of their tapered candles.

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