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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Stop Clutter from Coming Back with the One-Minute Rule

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The One-Minute Rule is one of the most popular organization hacks ideas we've ever shared—and if you've used it, you know why. But over the years it's inspired a few other additional rules that are just as useful, including one that kept Elizabeth's closet floor clean for the first time in years. In this episode we bring them all together. Resources & links related to this episode: 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.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Lemonada. What if the life you built online suddenly became real and completely out of your control?

0:12.9

In Caro Claire Burke's debut novel yesteryear, Natalie is a tradwife influencer with a picture-perfect

0:19.3

life and millions of followers.

0:21.4

Until she wakes up in 1855 and everything she's been romanticizing becomes something she has to survive.

0:28.5

Carol Claire Burke is also the co-host of the podcast, Diabolical Lies,

0:32.8

and readers are calling this book impossible to put down with a twist that's completely off the rails in the best way.

0:40.1

Yesteryear is available now in print, audio, and ebook.

1:01.9

Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get happier. Hey, Elizabeth. Hi, Gritch.

1:08.8

Today we're revisiting one of the most useful strategies that I have found for dealing with clutter in everyday life.

1:11.0

This is the one-minute rule.

1:15.6

It is truly one of the most popular ideas I've ever shared, and for good reason. If you use it consistently, it really does stop clutter before it piles up.

1:21.2

It also inspired a few other practical rules in the same vein, including one grretchen that kept my closet floor clean for the

1:29.9

first time in years. So we'll get to those later in the episode, but first let's start with the

1:35.1

one-minute rule itself, what it is, why it works, and how to actually use it.

1:46.6

Yeah, so Gretchen, we talked about the one-minute rule in our very first episode.

1:52.0

Yes, number one.

1:53.8

But it may be new to some of our listeners who have not heard episode one.

1:59.3

Also, because this is such a good tip, we decided we want to remind

2:04.0

everyone about it, even if they heard about it way back in episode one. Yeah, because sometimes you

2:08.7

know something, but you know, you need to be reminded of it. So the one minute rule is very simple.

2:12.8

It's that if there's anything that you can do in less than a minute, you do it without delay.

2:17.2

So if you can print out a document, sign it and scan it, that you can do in less than a minute you do it without delay. So if you can

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