Blasting Holiday Lights, Announcing Weddings in Holiday Cards, Reciprocating Expensive Gifts, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about blasting holiday lights, announcing weddings in holiday cards, reciprocating expensive gifts, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- What should I do about my neighbor's too-bright holiday display?
- Is it OK to announce our wedding engagement in our annual holiday card?
- Should I feel guilty about not being able to reciprocate my wealthy brother's expensive gifts?
- Should I tell my mother-in-law that she sent a repeat gift?
- Is there a way to tell my in-laws that we contributed more to a group gift than the others?
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Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Nick. |
| 0:00.9 | And it's Leah. |
| 0:01.9 | Real quick thing before we get going. |
| 0:03.7 | Did you know that we have a new benefit on Patreon? |
| 0:07.1 | I did know. |
| 0:08.1 | Yes. |
| 0:08.5 | So if you want an ad-free version of our show, you of course can continue signing up for Wolf's Plus exclusively on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:15.7 | But you can now get the same benefit when you join us on Patreon as a moon howler or higher. |
| 0:40.3 | A moon howler. I just want to be a moon howler. I am a moon howler. You are a moonhaller. Yes. Yes. You are the very definition. You're the model moonhauler. Boy, do I moon howl. Also, you're not only getting the ad-free version. You're also getting all of our Patreon content. Oh yeah. I mean, there's tons of bonus content, which you've never seen if you haven't joined us on Patreon. So please either join us on Wolves Plus through Apple Podcasts or join us on Patreon. |
| 0:47.0 | Come moon howl. |
| 0:51.2 | Hey, everybody. It's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonema. |
| 0:54.0 | And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 0:56.6 | Ow! |
| 0:58.9 | That we have a bonus episode. |
| 1:00.5 | So here we go. |
| 1:01.5 | Our first question is, quote, |
| 1:03.5 | I'm lucky to live on a relatively dark and quiet street. |
| 1:06.9 | However, for the past few years, my neighbors across the street have lined their roof, |
| 1:11.2 | windows, and dormers with very bright white Christmas lights. |
| 1:15.5 | Now, our street is so bright, you could literally read a newspaper in the dead of night |
| 1:20.2 | from mid-November to mid-January. |
| 1:22.9 | What's more, the light shines through my windows of my house and all of the neighbor's houses 24-7. If you wake up in the middle of the night, it feels like the sun is coming up, even though the shades are down. Several other adjacent neighbors are also distraught, and we're wondering, how can we find a tactful way to ask the family across the street to turn off their lights during the overnight hours? I feel like they sent it in as a group. Yeah. I mean, it's a group problem. That's for sure. |
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