DEAR MISS MANNERS: My sister-in-law started keeping her dining table “set” about 20 years ago, when her home was on the market. Related Articles Miss Manners: Our host ostentatiously does laundry ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My sister-in-law started keeping her dining table “set” about 20 years ago, when her home was on the market. I gather this was a staging thing. She still does it. It just seems ...

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: We have a longtime friend, and now neighbor, who cannot consume food orally due to extensive cancer surgeries and treatments years ago. They can consume very limited quantities of ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My sister-in-law started keeping her dining table “set” about 20 years ago, when her home was on the market. I gather this was a staging thing. She still does it. It just seems ...

Someone cutting a steak with a knife and fork - Denys Poliakov/Shutterstock These days, the words "etiquette" and "manners" are used more or less interchangeably. Maybe etiquette is seen as a fancier ...

Those endless “elbows off the table” admonishments may have seemed like a drag in childhood, but they were actually setting the stage for good etiquette rules and good manners as an adultand that’s ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I learned, as a child in an all-right-handed family, to set the table with the knife and spoon on the right and the fork on the left. Since I gave birth to a left-handed child, I ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When we have a large family dinner, between 10 and 21 people, there is one child whose parents allow her to be on her tablet, with volume on high. She comes into the house, whizzes ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When we have a large family dinner, between 10 and 21 people, there is one child whose parents allow her to be on her tablet, with volume on high. She comes into the house, whizzes ...