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Awesome Etiquette

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Mar 25, 2024 • 1h 11min

Episode 498 - New Gift Etiquette

On today’s show, we take your questions on preparing for porch pirates, paying for your plate at a wedding, handling salespeople in big box and grocery stores, and what to do when you’re invited to all the wedding parties. For Awesome Etiquette community members, your question of the week is about moving someone to BCC in business emails. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript from The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser. Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 23min

Episode 497 - Etiquette Fails

On today’s show, we take your questions on a camping birthday bash, sympathy cards in lieu of funeral attendance, when to begin at a banquet, and how to handle plus-ones for wedding invitations. For Awesome Etiquette community members, your question of the week is about a gift card wedding shower. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on our most memorable etiquette fails. Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 11, 2024 • 1h 13min

Episode 496 - Registered

On today’s show, we take your questions on how to handle a thank you and condolence card, setting hosting boundaries with your social spouse, navigating a very awkward situation with a coworker, and how to handle sympathy you’ve received when there’s no contact information to acknowledge it. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, your question of the week is about needing to deflect well-meaning conversations about hard times. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a wedding-themed postscript on setting up registries.Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 4, 2024 • 1h 4min

Episode 495 - Dinner Plate Decisions

On today’s show, we take your questions on classroom party participation, a meet the surrogate party, dinner plate decisions, and how to address a patient when calling from a doctor’s office. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, your question is about how to handle gifts for a joint sibling birthday party where you only know one sibling. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Top Table Manners for Kids.Support the show and gain ads-free access visit - emilypost.substack.comLearn more about Emily Post etiquette - emilypost.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 2min

Episode 494 - Emily Post Postscript

On today’s show, we take your questions on hosting gifts, a puzzling wedding invitation, the good reason to ghost, and how to handle one menu for four people. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question concerns condolences for a miscarriage. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on the life of Emily Post by Emily Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Feb 19, 2024 • 1h 21min

Episode 493 - Copy Edit Curse

On today’s show, we take your questions on getting everyone involved at a wedding, the curse of the copy edit, sending acknowledgments to condolences, and a guest of honor who doesn’t want to participate. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about non-invitation invitations. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on eating bread and soup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Feb 12, 2024 • 1h 8min

Episode 492 - Reluctant Host

Topics discussed include hosting a bachelorette party after a courthouse wedding, dealing with demanding guests, feeling unwelcome with extended family, handling season tickets for guests, Czech cultural etiquette, table manners, and a heartfelt salute to the speaker's brother.
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Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 12min

Episode 491 - Professionalism

Explore the world of personal stationery, from its importance to elegant design choices. Dive into how to express sincere sympathy through heartfelt notes. Discover dining etiquette dilemmas like the last piece of bread: keep it or offer it? Learn about navigating phone use during meals and the evolving definition of professionalism in various roles. Plus, enjoy a heartwarming story about kindness at a birthday party, emphasizing inclusivity and empathy in social gatherings.
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Jan 29, 2024 • 1h 7min

Episode 490 - Impossible Perfection

On today’s show, we take your questions on addressing noise at the library, what to do with a wedding announcement, whether or not to tell someone you exchanged their gift, and how to get out of being called dear. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our bonus question is about making plans with friends. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on the essential nature of etiquette advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jan 22, 2024 • 1h 9min

Episode 489 - Hold the Door

On today’s show, we take your questions on teaching kids manners in public, handling homemade gifts, hosting gifts for team dinners, and getting a gift but not being able to return the favor. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about strangers sleeping on you on the plane. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on the practice and meaning of holding doors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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