From tipping drama to Thanksgiving tension: Your 10 most-read Miss Manners columns of 2025

Discover the top 10 most-read Miss Manners columns of 2025, featuring advice from Judith Martin on etiquette, family ...

Miss Manners: Should I just give up on being a friendly neighbor?

GENTLE READER: That you are a good neighbor. But too anxious a friend. Miss Manners suggests that you stop monitoring the ...

Miss Manners: The carol that promotes pudding extortion

GENTLE READER: What was that? Miss Manners couldn’t quite hear you over the ruckus made by the geese a-laying, the calling ...

Dear Miss Manners: Neighbor makes friendship tough

Miss Manners suggests that you stop monitoring the lady’s car.  She is not obliged to check in with you before going away.

Miss Manners: I refused to let a woman jump back in line, now I’m the store Grinch

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a holiday shopper facing public shaming after ...

Miss Manners: Cause of death seems grossly out of order at 50th high school reunion

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our high school reunion committee is planning a 50-year reunion for our class. The committee would like to ...

Miss Manners: It’s easy to make a line etiquette faux pas, especially around the holidays

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...
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Miss Manners: Co-workers’ questions about my weight loss become rude

Miss Manners suggests you continue to acknowledge what they believe to be a compliment and stop answering when they get ...
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Miss Manners: We don’t want to hurt our friend’s feelings, but she gives terrible gifts

She is a sweet lady, but needy. So, when she visits, we take down art we enjoy and put up the cat-in-the-bathtub picture.

Miss Manners: I have to display my friend’s tacky gifts or she gets upset

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at missmanners.com, by email to [email protected], or through postal mail ...

Dear Miss Manners: The perils of keeping score of gifts

Dear Miss Manners: We have a close friend who gives gifts we are not wild about, but display anyway. If she does not see her ...

Miss Manners: How do I respond to people who ask about my weight-loss methods?

Miss Manners suggests you continue to acknowledge what they believe to be a compliment and stop answering when they get intrusive (or even before). Eventually the novelty of you looking fit will wear ...