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Mar 2021
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Ep. 318: Look at Your Home with the Eyes...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
About this episode

We discuss why you might look at your home through the eyes of a stranger, why a simple hook can be so useful , share some excellent before-and-after clutter-clearing triumphs, and discuss listeners’ response to the question, “What valuable lesson have you learned from the pandemic?”

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