Why More Stuff Doesn’t Make You Happier

Pushkin. Hey Happiness Lab listeners, welcome back to our special series on spring cleaning your happiness. We're continuing our deep dive into the Happiness Lab closets to find all the show's well-being boosting insights that you might have missed. In today's episode Throwback, we'll tackle the happiness boost that comes from literal spring cleaning, that is, decluttering all your material stuff.

In this episode, you'll meet Kate Flanders, a writer who went deep into debt so she could buy all the clothes, books, and gadgets, she thought would make her happier. But spoiler, buying all that stuff didn't work. But there was something that did. Throwing it all away.

So get ready, because in this classic Happiness Lab episode, I, your intrepid host, will tackle a spooky British barn overflowing with movie monsters and a swanky California convertible ride with bad 80s music tunes. All so that I can teach you about the joy of letting go. That's all coming up when this throwback episode returns right after this quick break. This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human.

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