Episode 495 - Dinner Plate Decisions
Your Awesome Etiquette podcast episode for the week, Monday joke, and a etiquette extra on who hosts dinner parties anymore
On today’s show, we take your questions on classroom party participation, a meet the surrogate party, dinner plate decisions, and how to address a patient when calling from a doctor’s office. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, your question is about how to handle gifts for a joint sibling birthday party where you only know one sibling. Plus your excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Top Table Manners for Kids.
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Etiquette Extra - Do You Host?
As we get deeper and deeper into writing the new Emily Post business etiquette book, we are reminded of the research that went into writing the Centennial Edition of Etiquette. Because a large percentage of the book dealt with entertaining and hosting at home, we wanted to know exactly how much hosting was happening, so we did a survey. The results confirmed something we expected and hoped to see (given that we did the poll in 2021), that while a significant percentage of people were not entertaining regularly, a similarly large percentage of people had hosted a dinner party in last several months and the majority had hosted sometime in the last year. We hope to encourage the idea of a dinner hosted at home as approachable, manageable, and appealing. And now even a little farther out from those pandemic years we’d like to hear from you, where do you fall on the hosting-at-home spectrum?
We would love to hear how you like to host in the comments. And maybe take this extra etiquette as inspiration to up your hosting game and get in a few more gatherings this year. Good food, friends, and maybe family - sounds like a big win in the social benefits department!
As always, we are also reminded that your questions, thoughts, and salutes make Awesome Etiquette possible. Thank you for being a part of the show!
Thank you for spending some time with us. Next up is the Thursday Etiquette Today Article.
All the best,
Lizzie and Dan
Happy-Monday Joke
Q: “Do you wanna box for your leftovers?”
A: "No, but I'll wrestle you for them.”
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