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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EP #168: The Houseguest & The Hedgehog
We take your etiquette questions about gifts with the wrong monogram, gifts of gratitude, friends with champagne tastes who complain, and a question about apps - the kind you eat. Your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment where we catch up with you on Thanksgiving!
51 min
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Episode #167: Happy Thanksgiving!
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions about invitation trepidation, what’s a lemon-hater to do?, changing gift traditions and post wedding blues. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Thanksgiving week etiquette prep!
51 min
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Episode #166: No Drama
We take your questions on being an unexpected host via video, honoring wedding co-hosts, handling drama when you’re not dramatic, and "dude, where’s my car?" Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on 'How to Bungle a Dinner' Party from the 1922 edition of Etiquette.
45 min
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Episode #165: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Styli...
We take your questions on breaking up with your hair stylist, setting boundaries during the grieving process, ending evenings out with friends, and bringing up your budget when RSVPing. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on 'How to Bungle a Dinner Party’.
42 min
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Episode #164: Take Home Scotch
We answer your questions on guests inviting extra guests, how to bring good scotch to a party and get to bring some home, baby gender-reveal parties, and a classic about wedding gift obligations. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on HALLLLOOOWEEEEEEEN.
43 min
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Episode #163: When Favors Become Expected
Dan and Lizzie answer questions about not eating when others do, invitation woes, extending a favor and dressing up for Grandma. Plus we hear your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Emily Post's birthday.
43 min
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Episode #162: Happy Birthday, No Gifts Please
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on neighbors crossing your property, babies in small apartments hoping for "no gifts please", how to be caring but not intrusive when friend are experiencing hard times, and a doozy of a monogram problem with a simple solution. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on preparing for Thanksgiving.
50 min
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Episode #161: Cruise Conundrum
We take your questions on exiting a bridal shower, friends encroaching on your cruise, religious inquiries at work and what to expect when lending out your vacation homes. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Visser's The Rituals of Dinner on toasting.
48 min
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Episode #160: Trail Manners
We take your questions on social media hijacking, housewarming invitations and replies, confusingly broad wedding invitations and how to teach gregarious children about self-introductions. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on the 6 elements to a dinner party according to Emily Post.
47 min
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Episode #159: Ghosting a Host
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on prompt party pick up, balancing grieving and celebration, 'ghosting' your host, and hurricane etiquette. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and the second half of our Postscript segment on royal etiquette.
42 min
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Episode #158: Give a Friend a Lift
Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on compliments at work, stripping a bed, paying your way at a rehearsal dinner, sharing a ride, and how to handle many parties in your honor. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and part one of a postscript segment on royal etiquette.
47 min
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Episode #157: Boutonnière Judgment
Your etiquette questions on a specific shoes-on shoes-off household, handling ex’s on Facebook, the clean plate club (...or not), boutonnière judgment, and being invited to pay for a party. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on open office environments.
43 min
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Episode #156: Better Late...
Etiquette questions on obligations: aisle seat obligations, wedding invitation obligations, online dating obligations, baby shower hosting obligations, and guest clean up obligations. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a Postscript segment on splitting the bill.
58 min
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Episode #155: Because It Is My Name
Your questions on names and titles for widows and divorcees, breast pumping rooms being used by non-moms, an inclusive bachelor party, and responding to assumptions that you’re pregnant. Plus your feedback about, etiquette salute and a Postscript segment.
46 min
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Episode #154: New to the Neighborhood
We take on your questions on what to include in a thank-you note, sending really late thanks yous, daughter in law disputes, and how to introduce yourself to new neighbors. Plus your most feedback, etiquette salute and a Postscript segment on “white tie events”.
43 min
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Episode #153: Compliment Conundrum
We answer questions on why it’s rude to comment on someone being single and pretty, what to do when your team isn’t including you on meetings, and a guest who wont’ leave. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a Postscript segment from Emily Post’s Etiquette 1922 edition on Dinner Parties at Great Houses.
50 min
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Episode 152: Declining Seconds
Dan and Lizzie take on your questions about cutting in line, being asked to sing duets, declining seconds and revealing personal changes to friends. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and (spoiler alert) a postscript segment on spoiler alerts.
54 min
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Episode 151: Introducing The Philosophy of Etiq...
The Posts take your questions about sending late engagement gifts, people who talk too much about themselves, a mother-in-law not respecting names, and another question about ordering pizza. Plus feedback on divvying up the pastries at work, an etiquette salute and a Postscript segment on The Philosophy of Etiquette.
48 min
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Episode # 150: Yes 150!
Lizzie and Dan take your questions about long distance bridal showers, when to un-friend a friend’s ex’s, all the trimmings for encore weddings, and email timing issues. Plus your enthusiastic feedback - Zipper merge -, a handwritten etiquette salute and a postscript on national cell phone courtesy month.
44 min
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Episode #149: Half Cake
Lizzie and Dan take your questions about sharing cakes, mic lists at rehearsal dinners, how to both host and participate at a party and announcing an elopement. Plus feedback, a friendship focused etiquette salute for the week and a Postscript segment on wedding websites.
40 min
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Episode #148: Invited back?
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan tackle your etiquette questions about merging traffic lanes, sharing office space, inviting bad guests back again, and sorry but we're talking about saying sorry. Plus your most excellent feedback on sales emails, an etiquette salute for the week about moving away from friends, and a Postscript segment on setting up your home bar.
64 min
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Episode #147: The Rainbow of Truth
Dan and Cindy Post Senning take your questions about dogs on vacation, backing out of a group weekend, sharing costs on the road and plus one wedding gifts. Plus feedback, etiquette salute for the week and a Postscript segment on the beauty of truth by Emily Post.
49 min
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Episode #146: Listen please
Dan and Lizzie answer your questions on in lieu of flowers requests, communicating about Celiac, how to handle food stealing spouses and inviting your stylist to your wedding. Plus your excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on listening skills.
58 min
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Episode #145: Share and Share Alike
Lizzie and Dan take your questions on Family Only Vacations, The use of MBA in a title, Divvying up the pastry box at work, and how to tell your sister her house smells. Plus feedback, etiquette salute and a Postscript on exiting a party from 'The Rituals of Dinner' by Margaret Visser.
47 min
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Episode 144: Gentleman First???
Dan and Lizzie answer your etiquette questions on whose name comes first, cat sitter thank yous, and dinner guest no shows. Plus feedback, an etiquette salute and a Postscript segment on Family Gatherings.
52 min