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.
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Episode #197: Pool Party
On today’s show we take your questions about tablet tipping, a reflection on a short date, assuming someone has a child when they don't, and new pool owners wanting to know how to pool host. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on sharing meals.
52 min
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Episode #196: Essential Oil Invasion
On today’s show we take your questions about Mom’s love for essential oils when visiting, graduation invitations and announcements, ordering for your partner, and learning to navigate the drama at a new job. Plus your feedback, salute, and a postscript on ending a dinner party.
49 min
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Episode #195: On Maple Syrup
On today’s show we take your questions about attending a party when you had a falling out with the hosts, registries for elopements, leaving a living situation and a classic on how to split the check. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Maple Syrup.
57 min
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Episode #194: Let me Tell You How
On today’s show we take questions on radios in Ubers, talking with friends about your partner, gifts you can’t bring home, a family whose language is instruction and gifts for graduates degrees. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on quiet at the movies.
57 min
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Episode #193: Wedding Attire Color Codes?
On today’s show we take questions on wedding attire color codes, thanking hospice workers, tech rules at the table, when to include sentiment in a wedding ceremony and should shower hosts give gifts? Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Chivalry.
51 min
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Episode #192: Name Games
On today’s show we take your questions on how to eat strawberries, helping when you overhear a problem at work, when you almost have the name of someone famous, and receiving other people’s emails. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on baby shower thank you notes.
48 min
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Episode #191: Civility for Servers Please
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on being served raw food, getting called Dr., offering condolences when the recipient might not remember you, ordering politely and pet free friend visits.
49 min
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Episode #190: Bowl Trends
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on dining in bowls, being unnamed on a wedding invitation, personal favours and professional requests, generous hosts serving generous guests, and family who make decisions for you. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on travel tipping.
60 min
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Episode #189: Stay off my lawn
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on bridesmaids and bachelorette parties, children playing on your lawn, potlucks that don’t specify on the invitation, not noisy neighbors being blamed for noise and how to answer repeated questions about adoption. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment notching up your business skills.
58 min
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Episode #188: It's Two Thirty O'clock!
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on two finger food questions, is two thirty o'clock a thing?, zits at the dinner table, party guests not paying attention to invitations and gifts that you don’t really like from someone you really love. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Emily Post’s theory of the Bank of Life.
47 min
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Episode #187: A Stepmom's Step One: The Wedding
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on keeping communications simple, dealing with favors you don’t like, helping kids combat shyness, flying first class when senior business colleagues aren’t, and whether or not to invite your future stepson’s mother to your wedding. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on gift giving
55 min
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Episode #186: A Shrimpy Situation
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on rejecting kind offers, how to handle first and middle names on a wedding invitation, Aafollow up question from episode 182 on belated 2nd receptions, how to handle in lieu of gifts for an 80th birthday, and a very jumbo shrimpy problem. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Emma Seppala and happiness.
47 min
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Episode #185: Honorifics and Chivalry
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on pictures of engagement rings, community dinner displeasures, honoring honorifics, yoga class guests, and elevator and door chivalry at work. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on breaking up.
57 min
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Episode #184: Weekend Woes
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on knives as pushers, questions about homeschooling, which job am I interviewing for, no wedding reply card and ski weekend woes. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on serving wine.
56 min
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Episode #183: Dish Me The Info!
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on babies and weddings all at once, a roommate who thinks your kitchen ware is hers, a manager who dumps a problem back on your plate, asking folks for addresses in the digital age, and how to get your bridesmaids to choose modest dresses. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on 24/7 Etiquette.
55 min
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Episode #182: Slippery Situations
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on 2nd wedding receptions, soap being swiped from the ladies rest room, offering guests your master bedroom, attending only one of two baby showers, and how much repsonisiblity is on a host to manage ground transportation for guests. Plus, your most excellent feedback, two etiquette salutes and a postscript segment on HUGGING!
58 min
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Episode # 181: Is It The Right Response?
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on keto dietary restrictions, thanking folks when travel makes it hard, declining a boss’s casual lunch invite, a wedding guest who is frustrated by a bride’s response, and how not be an answering service for your spouse. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on etiquette for social dances of all kinds.
49 min
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Episode #180: Is it Boasting or not?
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on not being the office therapist, when you have too many people to invite to your birthday, who pencils who in when scheduling, and is it boasting or not. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Dancing and Balls...like fancy ones.
55 min
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Episode # 179: These Gifts, Please!
On today’s show, Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on getting the gifts you want at a shower, saying thanks for a thank you gift, what to do with too many bridal shower offers, and how to handle the age old question about age. Plus your most excellent feedback, some of which comes from Puja Senning, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Emily Post’s How To Behave Though A Debutante.
50 min
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Episode #178: Thanks, But No Thanks!
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions about tiny tummies and hosts that notice them, condolences and contributions to funerals, a very special question from the hosts of the Home Hour Podcast and how to handle gifts when boundaries have been broken. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on replying to formal invitations.
47 min
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Episode #177: Surprise We're Married!
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on wedding announcements, managing messaging apps at work, whether or not to write a thank-you note to your SO’s family, how to handle naming a 6th, wedding regrets and finally a very special question. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on meeting etiquette.
49 min
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Episode #176: Welcome Puja
On today’s show Dan and Puja take your etiquette questions on managing multiple birthdays, hand delivering cards, hosting guests with allergies and apologizing for the first mistake. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on the meaning of Etiquette.
37 min
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Episode #175: The Party's Over
Dan and guest host Cindy Post Senning take your questions on wrapping up a party, lending a hand without giving offense, sending condolences during the holidays and how clean to keep a home. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on napkins continued.
45 min
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Episode #174: RSVP Fails
We take your etiquette questions on groomsmen expenses, reclining seat backs, bringing wine when you’re already bringing wine and electronic RSVP fails. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on napkins from Margaret Visser's The Rituals of Dinner.
40 min
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Episode#173: Happy New Year
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions about not getting together with sick friends, a doozy of social awkwardness, travel for bridesmaids and what to do with serious dietary restrictions and food related work events. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Kelly Williams Brown’s Book Gracious.
45 min