The 7 Manners of Thanksgiving. Don’t Show Up Without Them!
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor Thanksgiving Day…a time set aside to gather together in gratitude and reverence for our blessings, and to enjoy a portion of those blessings with a feast of food...
View ArticleFive Manners To Make Christmas Shopping Merry and Bright
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor, Inc. Some folks don’t seem to get it, and it’s sad. What is it they don’t realize? Two things: 1. Manners are, simply put, best practices for handling any...
View ArticleThe 5 Manners of What Not to Ask at a Christmas…or Any Party
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor I find that friends often have friends a lot like themselves. Because of this, we probably have quite a bit in common with the people at the parties they host. Meeting...
View ArticleThe Five Manners of Great Christmas Party Conversations
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor, Inc. Whether you have ten parties on your calendar or just one or two, Christmas is in full swing and now’s the time you’re meeting and mingling with new people:...
View ArticleThe 5 Manners of Opening Christmas Gifts and The #1 Don’t
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor Before you know it, there will be Christmas presents lovingly handed to you while the anxious eyes of the gift giver, with his or her fingers crossed, will watch...
View ArticleThe 3 Persons You Really Should Write After Christmas Thank you Notes to
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor Christmas has passed. The parties are over. The gifts are unwrapped. And whether the party was memorable or something you’d rather forget, and whether the gift made...
View ArticleThe 7 Manners of Opening Every Gift
By: Maralee McKee You’ve just been handed a gift and are about to open it. All eyes are on you. If what’s in the box isn’t what you would have picked out for yourself, you hope your face will hide...
View ArticleThe 5 Manners of Valentine’s Day Everyone Should Know
By: Maralee McKee Valentine’s Day: the most romantic, lovey-dovey, glorious day of affection, gifts, and expressions of love of the year. Or, a day you wish you could sleep through so you don’t have to...
View Article7 Savvy Manners for Writing Thank You Notes After Saying Thanks
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor Greetings! If you were on the receiving end of a meal or gift recently, writing your host a thank-you note might be in order. ~ How do you know for sure? ~ If a...
View ArticleThe 7 Manners of Mother’s Day for Moms and Everyone
By: Maralee McKee Mother’s Day is one that brings up different emotions for us depending on our situation and stage in life. This weekend I’ll be with my mom enjoying the fifteenth anniversary of our...
View ArticleHow to Say Grace Amazing Well This Thanksgiving and Anytime
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor Two of the most common fears people share are public speaking and heights. But, I bet if we took a poll, we’d be surprised to find out that for a lot of folks, their...
View ArticleHow to Choose and Give the Perfect Hostess Gift
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor When you’ve been invited to a dinner or party, most of the time, it’s customary to bring a gift for the host or host as a way of showing your gratitude for having...
View ArticleThe Unspoken Etiquette of Your Holiday Office Party
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor For your holiday office party, the boss rented out the ballroom, ordered a bounty of drinks and food, and paid for the band. Surely, he or she wants you to let loose,...
View ArticleBe The Gift You’d Like to Receive
By: Deb Weaver, The Word Weaver A note: I’d like to introduce to you….Deb Weaver author of this guest post and the poetic, lyrical, beautiful, thought provoking, uplifting blog The Word Weaver. For...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Manners for Hosts and Guests on Christmas Day
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor It’s 10 AM Christmas morning and you’ll already asking yourself, “Why in the world did I agree to this?” You tell yourself that it’s not all bad. But, you don’t fool...
View ArticleThe Etiquette of Re-gifting You Don’t Want to Ignore
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor Sometimes re-gifting is perfectly fine, and sometimes it’s not. Because of this, there’s an etiquette of re-gifting you don’t want to ignore. It’s one most people...
View ArticleThe Gracious 5-Step Formula for Writing Thank You Notes
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor I’ll come out and say what a lot of us feel. Writing thank you notes, especially after receiving a number of gifts at the holidays, or for our birthday, shower, or...
View ArticleHow to Make This Your Best Year Ever
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor You can make this your best year ever. No New Year’s resolutions required! That’s a good thing, because while 62 percent of us make them either frequently or...
View ArticleMother’s Day Gift Guide and What Mom Really Wants
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor It can be hard to know what gift Mom will enjoy the most. To help get your gift brainstorming a head start, and hopefully make the process of choosing something your...
View ArticleFather’s Day Etiquette for Blended Families
By: Maralee McKee, Manners Mentor If only all family dynamics for Father’s Day were as simple and straightforward as the prose in store-bought greeting cards portrays them to be. Here’s an example...
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