Awesome Etiquette

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.

Society & Culture
Relationships
Kids & Family
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Episode #232: Thanks Coach!
Your questions on word vomit, asking a future son-in-law to call you mom, one guest defining an event, and thanking coach after each practice. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on nursing home etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members your extra question of the week is about managers who don’t cover their coughs.
49 min
302
Episode #231: The Parking Lot
We take your questions on being honest about personal issues, expectations at sip-n-see parties, parking lot etiquette and a question of carrot snatching at the grocery store. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on social media’s changing landscape. For sustaining members the question of the week is about ice cream store sampling.
57 min
303
Episode #230: Creative Place Setting
On today’s show we take your questions on fixing things in front of guests, a shocking place setting, changing others, lunchroom conversation let down, and one dress to impress. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on baby showers. For sustaining members your extra question is about guest rooms.
55 min
304
Episode #229: Phone call faux pas
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your questions on calling out adult children, phone call faux pas, dining out with toddlers, engagement gifts for old friends, and tipping for non-taxi car services. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment inspired by our assistant producer Bridget on week one of a new job. The Awesome Etiquette sustaining members extra question of the week is about about Airbnb for family and Friends. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
50 min
305
Episode #228: Dress Details
On today’s show we take your questions on delicate dress details, an address conundrum, who gets the armrests, when your host doesn’t serve dinner, and a formal luncheon flop. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment inspired by Dan’s cold. For sustaining members your question of the week considers whether asking about schooling is rude.
54 min
306
Episode #227: Brunch Anyone?
On today’s show we take your questions on gifts that aren’t great for kids, being called out on body language at the table, thank yous for recommendations, condolence cards between family members and how to handle brunch after a wedding when no one’s hosting. Plus feedback, an etiquette salute and a postscript segment on announcing engagements. The Awesome Etiquette sustaining members extra question of the week is about elevator pitches and getting yours right.
56 min
307
Episode #226: No Girls?
On today’s show we reply to ladies being left off invitations, trouble with visitors, thank you notes as gifts, and thanking you for a generous favor. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on travel etiquette. The sustaining member extra question of the week is about interviewing via Skype.
57 min
308
Episode #225: Happy 2019!
On today’s show we take your questions on buying wine for the booze-bus, gift card quandaries, fold over cards, unexpected visitors during naps, and a question about saying thank you instead of I’m sorry. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on thank-you notes. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about what you do with your purse at a party.
47 min
309
Episode #224: Family Gifts
We take your questions on the family gift exchange, long lost thank-yous, texting "no" to casual parties, ring around the baggage carousel, and wearing earbuds at home. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on gifting. The sustaining members question of the week is about gifting obligations with neighbors.
59 min
310
Episode #223: New Address
We take your questions on alerting others to your new address, sick kiddos coming to parties, noise and neighbors, saying no to parties, and handling rude comments made by family. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on setting up your guest room. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about guests who take over the kitchen and overstay their welcome.
49 min
311
Episode #222: Here's Looking at You
We take your questions on cracking joints in public, saying no problem, plus one problems, eye contact at dinner, and friends who text favor requests. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Holiday Cards. The members extra question of the week is about hosts who can’t get guests to stop bringing food.
54 min
312
Episode #221: Gift to Who?
On today’s show we take your questions on who should you gift to, what family name to use, greeting guests at the door, not wanting people to accommodate your food restriction and how long you should talk with other guests. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on Holiday Parties. The sustaining members question of the week is about introductions and deducing who is the more important person in the moment.
49 min
313
Episode #220: Soup Spoon Sipping
On today’s show we take on sipping from soupspoons, a friend’s generosity, being asked to host a baby shower last minute and receiving holiday cards for a deceased parent. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on holiday invitation etiquette. Sustaining members, your extra question of the week tackles talking wedding plans without fishing for an invitation.
44 min
314
Episode #219: Happy Thanksgiving
On today’s show we take your questions on casual Thanksgiving dinner invitations, saucy knives, who pays for broken gifts, requesting gift cards as payment and hand delivering mail. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on "turning the table". The extra question of the week is about turning down a dinner invitation.
45 min
315
Episode #218: Holiday Hosting
We take your questions about names on Holiday cards, how to insist on cooking the meal?, recommendations - after a few years and cultural differences in wedding plans. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on “The Courteous No”. For sustaining members your question of the week is about walking to a table and who should go first.
53 min
316
Episode #217: Staggered Start
On today’s show we take your questions on coffe shop meet-up strategies, debating dinner out "On us", how to respond to unintentionally rude exclamations, steping in to organize as an in-law, and whether or not to use staggered party start times to manage the guest list. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segement inspired by the final section of Jen Doll's Be Better At Parties NYT Article. The Awesome Etiquette sustaining members extra question of the week is about couples asking for help during baby visits.
60 min
317
Episode #216: Stationery Gifts
We take your questions on double invitations, buying gifts for the boss, eye contact etiquette, interrupting your server while they read specials and a question about stationery as a gift. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment from on working the room. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question is about how not to have a bridal party.
55 min
318
Episode #215: Who's Invited?
We take your questions on saying thank you after a raise, if your partner is invited to a co-workers party, when a chivalrous act feels forced, replying to thank yous, and then even more questions on thank yous. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment that is the third installment from Jen Doll's Be Better At Parties NYT Article. The sustaining members extra content addresses some dos and don’ts of wearing a tux.
50 min
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Episode #214: Coffee Favors
We take your questions on offering to grab someone a coffee, living in your childhood home, your holiday guest list and asking for BIG favors. Plus feedback, etiquette salute and postscript from a listener on discussing infertility. The sustaining members question is about accommodating someone’s allergy.
50 min
320
Episode #213: Mix and Mingle
We take your questions on awkward introductions, the problem with no problem, grandma was upset we opened our wedding gifts early, and how to thank a group at work. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we explore the mix and mingle. Sustaining members, your question is about dietary restrictions at large events.
47 min
321
Episode #212: Chilly Warm Wishes
On today’s show we take your questions on critiquing your roommates cooking, reassuring a bride that yes she can have a 2nd reception, should you call friends before coming to town and what to do when your in-laws well wishes seem cold. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript about 1922 telephones.
49 min
322
Episode #211: Interrupting Who
On today’s show we take your questions on receiving a b-day card, interrupting, posthumous thank you notes, canning jars returns and work relationships. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript about being better at parties. For sustaining members your extra question of the week is about digital RSVPs for weddings.
55 min
323
Episode #210: They and Them
We take your questions on they/them pronouns, sending married monogrammed thank-yous before you’re married, handling a couple who is asking you to chip in on their wedding, who should go first walking through doors and how to let those you’ve been talking to for online dating know you’ve met someone. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript about dining classics. The sustaining member extra question of the week looks at tipping when your server changes shifts.
56 min
324
Episode #209: Thank You for Your Support
On today’s show Lizzie and Guest host Puja Senning take your etiquette questions on informing a host they made you sick, timing for thanking those giving donations, showing appreciation to your boyfriend’s generous family, how long do you have to give a housewarming gift, and what to do when you can’t remember if you already gave a wedding gift or not. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and postscript about remaining calm. Your extra question of the week is on a coworker whose constant conversation is becoming a work issue.
39 min
325
Episode #208: After the "M_"
On today’s show we take your questions on writing on behalf of your daughter, gifts for those who throw a shower, who gets served first in a family, the 'M' on a reply card and minimizing Christmas gifts. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript about bringing babies out in public. Your extra question is about whether or not the table should be set all the time.
42 min