

Awesome Etiquette
The Emily Post Institute
Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette with advice based on consideration, respect, and honesty. Like their great-great-grandmother, Emily Post, Lizzie and Dan look for the reasons behinds the traditional rules to guide their search for the correct behavior in all kinds of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.
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Jul 8, 2019 • 55min
Episode #252: Potluck
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your questions on messy summer potlucks, hyphenated names on address labels, shared office space scents and traveling while potty training. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members we look what to do when someone asks to attend the wedding. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on stealing the thunder at someone’s wedding.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 1, 2019 • 1h 1min
Episode #251: Best Society?
On today’s show we have special guest host Peter Post joining Lizzie and we take your questions on baby name haters, wedding shower gifts for strained relations, expensive hairdressers and using your neighbor’s trashcan. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on a 1934 article written by Emily Post on what exactly is best society. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members passing etiquette is the topic of the day.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 21, 2019 • 53min
Episode #250: Photo Peeking
On today’s show we take your questions on table settings at war, too much to eat, peeking at photo scrolling, a houseguest’s guilt and adults at play, children be warned. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on notching it up for those closest to us. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about a house divided, when non family stop by for a visit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 17, 2019 • 56min
Episode #249: Sharing Water Bottles
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your questions on I accept and I’ve got a vacation, waiting for the invitation, sharing water bottles and other things, and oops sticky bills made me over pay the sitter. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on moms and wedding planning. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about baby-showers and how many thank-yous you have to issue.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 10, 2019 • 53min
Episode #248: Smile
On today’s show we take your questions on gifts for a second wedding, a worried runner, tips for a solo business owner and preparing when an interviewer is younger than you. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on smiles. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about sending late thank you notes during a time of mourning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 3, 2019 • 52min
Episode #247: Clutch Goes Where?
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your questions on being invited to school events for your child when the school is out of state, handling a work issue that doesn’t involve you, what should a widower call his former in-laws and where to put your clutch at a crowded table. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on three goals to improve etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about rehearsal dinners and going out for drinks after them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 27, 2019 • 58min
Episode #246: Secret Party
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your questions on forgetful relatives, showing gratitude for a recommendation, keeping a party secret and asking to buy someone’s home. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from twitter on embarrassing situations. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about a birthday party clipboard RSVP at school.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 20, 2019 • 49min
Episode #245: Baby Boom
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your questions on hosting as a non-parent during a baby boom, group text dilemmas, tipping at the salon, and an awkward guest bathtub routine. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on bridesmaid attire and its costs from the 1927 edition of Etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about virtual baby showers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 13, 2019 • 46min
Episode #244: Host and Gym
We take your questions on wind-chime awareness, is it rude to host and gym?, keeping up with the Jones’ at work, and who introduces who to whom with elders. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on housewarmings. For sustaining members your extra question of the week is about ordering issues at restaurants.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 6, 2019 • 43min
Episode #243: Reading Cards
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your questions on funeral crashing, whether to get a boss a birthday gift, reading cards out loud in a group and whether or not it’s okay to leave a health class early. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment wrapping up our series on tricky foods. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about mothers and daughters tackling the “you look like sisters!” comment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


