Awesome Etiquette

Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette, offering advice grounded in consideration, respect, and honesty. As the great-great-grandchildren of Emily Post, cousins Dan and Lizzie look to the reasons behind traditional rules to guide their advice in a wide range of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.

Kids & Family
Relationships
Self-Improvement
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Episode #349: Charcuterie
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 dealing with questions about being single at a certain age, manners for sharing Charcuterie boards, the line between being friendly with neighbors and being overbearing, and returning the favor when someone brings you dinner. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about sharing baby news with a friend who has miscarried. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on inter-generational manners.
62 min
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Episode 348: Verifing Vaccines
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 wearing white to weddings, expensive bachelorette parties, verifying vaccine information for events, and people going through your things when they visit your home. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about your boss following you on Instagram. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on ethics and moral principles.
60 min
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Episode #347: Crafting Compliments
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 how long should a visit last, crafting compliments, play date hosting gifts, and accepting compliments. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your question of the week is about picking up your small pooch in public. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on netiquette.
56 min
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Episode #346: Affordable Flowers
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 affordable flowers for a wedding, addressing concerns you have before going on a zoom date, how to determine who sits at the head of the table, and roommates inviting people over during the pandemic. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about people who say they didn’t receive information, when they actually did. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript reading from Emily Post on types of conversationalists.
64 min
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Episode #345: Magic Wand
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 a bachelor-et back out, turning down offers of help, boxing up leftovers, and a friend who makes not-so-friendly comments. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about dog etiquette. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on what we would do with an etiquette magic wand.
60 min
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Episode #344: Dinner Party Download Reprise
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 a modern wedding quandary, a very overly intrusive neighbor, double last name confusion, and addressing envelopes. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about saying you’re welcome. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on the early days of Dan and Lizzie on the Dinner Party Download.
47 min
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Episode #343: Zoom Wedding Guest
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 teaching children table manners, zoom weddings, what to include on accommodation cards, and work friend now boss. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about you're welcome. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on seating charts.
75 min
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Episode #342: Virtual Parties
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 mail mishaps, making safety suggestions to other parents, sharing success on social media, and introducing etiquette to your peers. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about posting your COVID-19 vaccine photos online. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on virtual parties.
58 min
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Episode #341: I See You
To see a video of today's introduction visit Patreon.com/awesomeetiquette. Welcome to a special Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on asking guests to dress formally, responding to touchy compliments, declining to host a party, and politely asking people with accents to repeat themselves. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about some tricky ex-wife/ new girlfriend dynamics. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on
52 min
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Episode #340: Pay me, please
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 sticking to the registry, entertaining a lot due to where you live, smelly foods at work, and asking to be paid for the work you’ve done. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about wine at a business dinner. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on folding linens.
50 min
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Episode #339: No Kind Deed
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 farmers market etiquette, what to do when a nice gesture makes someone uncomfortable, celebrating step children, and separate baby showers with different guest lists. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your bonus question is about inviting coworkers to your wedding. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript on vaccination etiquette.
48 min
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Episode #338: Origins
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 proper salutations, buying gifts from the registry, leaving a job gracefully, and having a limited ceremony space for your wedding. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about correcting people’s assumptions. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript from Laura Claridge’s biography about the origins of the book Etiquette.
45 min
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Episode #337: Dining Left
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 a meal train mishap, gracefully wrapping up a gathering early, seating significant others at a wedding, and how to go about asking someone to throw you a bridal shower. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your bonus question is about responding to personal questions from your boss. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss anger management.
48 min
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Episode #336: Inside Out
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 turning down being in the wedding party, not wanting people to borrow your expensive items, losing control when others are planning your baby shower and how to politely check on someone’s plus one when they may have broken up before the wedding. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about how to show support when you can’t go to the funeral. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss anger management.
60 min
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Episode #335: Fanatic
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 bringing friends as wedding plus-ones, improving your child’s conversation skills, neighbors who use your property without permission, and repaying family members for their generosity. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is a followup to one from last week about letting people know you’ve received their gifts. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss being a fan.
48 min
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Episode #334: Received?
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 title mix ups, a followup question on being an aunty, including non-supportive siblings in your wedding party, and getting confirmation that the gifts you sent were received. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about a dog etiquette dilemma. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss a social future.
57 min
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Episode #333: Announcing
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 joint greeting cards, LinkedIn messages, a new covid wedding conundrum and making expectations clear to your babysitter. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your bonus question is about writing thank yous when you don’t know who gave which gifts. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss engagement announcements in the paper.
47 min
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Episode #332: Entertaining?
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 wearing a mask while running, work emails on holidays, tipping for hotel meals, and the debate over second baby showers. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members your question is about paying someone back for their help with your wedding, years later. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss Entertaining at Home with Lizzie Post.
53 min
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Episode #331: Give That Back, Please
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 the added burden for hosts during a pandemic, tributes to deceased loved ones that include politics, friends who borrow things and don’t return them, and expectations for soon-to-be aunts. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your question of the week is about hyginge at the office. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss Emily Post on the radio.
45 min
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Episode #330: Everyday Thanks
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 vaccine access, asking guests to remove their shoes in your home, a bride throwing a shower for herself, and how to politely turn down a pyramid scheme offer. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your bonus question is about posting on the wedding website when plans have changed. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript where we discuss everyday gratitude and the book 365 Thank You’s by John Kralik.
54 min
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Episode #329: Looking Forward
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 family members who are always on you about your weight, whether or not to open presents in front of people at parties, responding to condolence cards long after they were sent, and wearing a wedding ring as a widower. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your question of the week is about gift exchanges when financial strain gets in the way. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss looking back and looking forward
52 min
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Episode #328: The Feast
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 being unable to afford gifts, condolences around Christmas, American etiquette vs. Danish etiquette and putting a Venmo username on a wedding invitation. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your question of the week is about handling Christmas gifts when your partner celebrates it, but their family doesn’t. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss feasting as presented by Margaret Visser in The Ritual of Dinner.
42 min
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Episode #327: Voice-control
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 gift expectations for your partner’s family, politely turning down sweets from a coworker, how to handle multiple people making requests of the smart speaker at once and holiday tipping for housekeepers. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about planning a friend’s baby shower and asking for assistance from their family members. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss spoons.
49 min
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Episode #326: 2020 Tipping
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 increasing tips for servers because of the pandemic, writing personalized notes in books, sending a proper thank you to someone working from home, and signatures on text messages. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about greeting other household members in the morning and saying goodbye when you leave. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss gifting.
47 min
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Episode #325: Partner Introductions
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 family members who want to visit, but don’t take COVID-19 precautions, the implications of whistling around others, wording baby shower invitations, introducing an old boyfriend. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question is about changing gifting traditions. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss the afternoon tea table courtesy of Emily Post’s 1922 edition.
47 min