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Holiday Gifts: Giving and Receiving

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Etiquette, Comedy, Schmanners, Society & Culture, Mcelroy, Travis Mcelroy

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Hello there Internet! What's that behind your back? A present? FOR US?! Well, we got you something too! It's a brand new episode all about HOLIDAY GIFTS: GIVING AND RECEIVING! First, hear us discuss our own gift philosophies! Then, we discuss some famous gifts from history! We answer a whole mess of your gift questions too! What's the policy on re-gifting? Do you need to match monetary values? Who do you have to give presents to? All these and more! Enjoy the episode and feel free to share this gift with your friends!

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0:00.0

Merry Christmas, Teresa. I sold my podcast to get you this episode.

0:05.0

But I sold my episode to get you this podcast.

0:09.0

Oh man, awkward, huh? It's manners! Hello internet. I'm your husband host, Travis McElroy.

0:36.7

And I'm your wife host, Theresa McElroy.

0:38.8

And you're listening to Schmander.

0:40.3

It's extraordinary etiquette.

0:41.9

For ordinary occasions. Nailed it got it's a loopy day here in the macquarie I don't know why well because I think

0:51.2

Well, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

0:53.4

But that's also true, but there's also just like built up, like you know how something like

0:57.7

calcifies? There's like built up sleep deprivation a little bit.

1:02.0

A little bit. I did also just wake up from a nap that also

1:05.9

happened and I've had about 18,000 cups of coffee this morning he's gonna be a good

1:11.0

one so this is continuing another in our holiday series. Last week we talked

1:18.1

about holiday parties. This week we're talking about gift giving and receiving. I think next week we're going to put

1:25.0

out our live episode where we talked about Victorian Christmas. Sweet. And then

1:30.7

we'll probably take a break.

1:33.0

There will probably, by which I mean like a week,

1:35.0

we're not gonna skip like a bunch,

1:36.2

but probably between Christmas and New Year's,

1:38.2

whatever that day would be,

1:40.2

there probably won't be a new episode

1:41.5

because we'll be traveling to Huntington and then to Teresa's

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