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May 2024
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Ep. 483: Hacks for Summer, Coping with I...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
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We discuss many listener suggestions of hacks that makes summertime more fun and less work. We also tackle a question from a listener who has a co-worker who won’t stop borrowing her supplies

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