Episode 506 - Change of Address
Your Awesome Etiquette podcast episode for the week. Plus the Monday joke, weekly challenge, and an Emily Post P.S.A. etiquette extra.
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to tip when using a restaurant gift card, how to list multiple family names on a change of address card, and how to handle a wedding shower for a very intimate wedding. For community members, your question of the week is about how to handle gifts at graduation parties. Plus, your etiquette salute, weekly etiquette challenge, and a postscript segment where we hear from Emily Post herself.
Etiquette Extra - Emily Post Manners Instruction, In Person
This week, we are delighted to share one of our favorite pieces of Emily Post footage. You may have heard the audio on the podcast postscript this week. Now you get to see the footage and the scenes she is narrating in this short instructional film on manners.
For fun, can you spot any changes in our advice between Emily’s day and today? Was there anything you learned or that surprised you? There was one for Dan when he first saw this; you may have heard him talking about it on previous shows.
It's Time to Test Your Social Skills with the First Etiquette Trivia Game from Emily Post: Based on the etiquette from Emily Post’s Etiquette, The Centennial edition.
This week’s etiquette challenge is meant to help us all get through allergy season with as much grace as possible. We suggest grabbing a tissue and a spare so that you are covered and can offer a helping hand as well. For traditionalists and old-timers, it might even be a week to try carrying a handkerchief. Let us nose how it goes.
See you on Thursday. Until then!
All the best,
Lizzie and Dan
Happy-Monday Joke
"Why does Lizzie take an extra pair of socks when she goes golfing?"
"In case she gets a hole in one!"