Awesome Etiquette

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Episode #222: Here's Looking at You Dec 10, 2018

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On today’s show we take your questions on cracking joints in public, saying no problem for I'm sorry, plus one problems, eye contact at dinner, and friends who text favor requests. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Holiday Cards. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members the extra question of the week is about hosts who can’t guests to stop bringing food.

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Episode #221: Gift to Who? Dec 03, 2018

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On today’s show Dan and Lizzie 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 at a party. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment about Holiday Parties. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about introductions and deducing who is the more important person in the moment.

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Episode #220: Soup Spoon Sipping Nov 26, 2018

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On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your questions on sipping from soupspoons, getting a gift for a friend’s generosity, a reflection about being asked to host a baby shower last minute and how to handle receiving holiday cards for a deceased parent. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on holiday invitation etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about asking friends about wedding plans without fishing for an invitation.

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Episode #219: Happy Thanksgiving Nov 19, 2018

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On today’s show Lizzie and Dan 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 most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Emily Post on "turning the table". The Awesome Etiquette sustaining members question of the week is about turning down a holiday dinner invitation.

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Episode #218: Holiday Hosting Nov 12, 2018

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Dan and Lizzie take your questions about names on Holiday cards, how to insist on cooking the entire thanksgiving meal, reaching out for recommendations - after a few years time, and communicating cultural differences in wedding plans. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on “The Courteous No”. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about walking to a table at a restaurant and who should go first.

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Episode #217: Staggered Start Nov 06, 2018

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On today’s show we take your questions on coffee shop meet-up strategies, debating dinner out "On us", how to respond to unintentionally rude exclamations, stepping 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 segment 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.

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Episode #216: Stationery Gifts Oct 29, 2018

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On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your questions on double invitations, buying gifts for the boss’s birthday, eye contact etiquette, should you interrupt your server while they read specials and a question about stationery as a gift. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment that is the fourth installment from our Be Better At Parties NYT Article. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about how not to have a bridal party.

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Episode #215: Who's Invited? Oct 22, 2018

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On today’s show we take your questions on saying thank you after a raise, how to ask 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 most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment that is the third installment from Jen Doll's Be Better At Parties NYT Article. The Awesome Etiquette sustaining members extra question of the week addresses the dos and don’ts of wearing a tux to an early afternoon ceremony and an evening reception.

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Episode #214: Coffee Favors Oct 15, 2018

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On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your questions on offering to grab someone a coffee and what that really means, living in your childhood home and handling your siblings’ nostalgia & attachment, removing someone from your traditional holiday guest list and ungraciously asking for BIG favors. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript from a listener on phrases that help and phrases that hurt when discussing infertility. The Awesome Etiquette sustaining members extra question of the week is about how much you, as a host, have to accommodate someone’s allergy.

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Episode #213: Mix and Mingle Oct 08, 2018

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On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your questions on awkward introductions, the problem with no problem, ooops grandma was upset we opened our wedding gifts early, and how to thank a group at work. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we explore part two of Jen Doll's NYT's Be Better at Parties article: mix and mingle. Awesome Etiquette sustaining members, your extra question of the week is about dietary restrictions at large events and how to avoid talking about them.

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