Awesome Etiquette

The Emily Post Institute
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Aug 16, 2021 • 58min

Episode #362: An Expected Answer

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on helmet safety, tipping at hotels, assumptions about a bride changing her last name, and sending digital thank you cards. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about giving gifts for major milestones. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript job interviews.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 9, 2021 • 57min

Episode #361: The Next Load

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on unique tipping situations, inviting close colleagues to a wedding, addressing letters to same sex couples, and communal laundry room etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your question is about depositing a wedding gift check before thanking the person who gave it to you. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript remote work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 2, 2021 • 57min

Episode #360: Coming Back Around

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on paying back generous family members, firmly defining dietary restrictions when attending parties, using ‘best regards’ when corresponding with strangers, and adequately thanking your host for giving up their bed. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about people who borrow things and don;t put them back where they belong. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript from etiquette Kindergarten.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 26, 2021 • 55min

Episode #359: Singing Happy Birthday

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on tipping for events, a hurried host, when to sing happy birthday and public street parking problems. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about estranged family not acknowledging gifts. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on a sneak peek in to the characters we’ve created for the 20th edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 19, 2021 • 58min

Episode #358: Sneaky Neighbor

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on putting your recycling in the neighbor’s cans, providing meals for houseguests, including your business card in a thank you note to a customer, and responding to condescending comments from a future mother in law. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about approaching your neighbor about their untidy yard. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on Party Prep Countdowns!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 12, 2021 • 54min

Episode #357: Let's Not 'Do Lunch'

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on What titles to use when someone’s marital status is unknown, the phrase “let’s do lunch,” extreme wedding mishaps and feeling overwhelmed when making new friends. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about visiting with friends on a budget. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on ties.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 5, 2021 • 56min

Episode #356: American Tradition

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s July 4th show we take your questions on addressing a peculiar, post-dinner party practice, vaccine statuses and planning parties, interrupting someone while texting, and hosting guests from out of town when you’re in the middle of a drought. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about being left in the dark about rescheduled wedding plans. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on a new book featuring Amreicanon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 28, 2021 • 55min

Episode #355: Hotel This Time?

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on disclosing that you are bilingual, traveling with lingering concerns over COVID-19, friends who lock you into plans, and asking out-of-towners to get a hotel instead of staying with you. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about approaching your landlord without causing a conflict. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on proper introductions in business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 21, 2021 • 1h 1min

Episode #354: Can I Get You Something?

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on playing host or hostess to workers improving your home, using the last of the toilet paper, telling people how to correctly pronounce your name, and sending birthday gifts when you can’t attend the party. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about exceptions to the rules of wedding invitations. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on proper introductions in business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 14, 2021 • 1h

Episode #353: Picnic Season

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on taking your baby to the wedding, responding to graduation announcements with gifts, inviting people from out of town to a party when you can’t offer a place to stay, and handling less than sanitary behavior by a guest at dinner. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about how long you should stay at a party before leaving for another obligation. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on taking off a mask.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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