I feel guilty declining these invitations, but at the same time, I honestly believe these are just gift-grabbing events.

GENTLE READER: Indeed, there are people who think of life as a series of gift-grabbing events. And there are others who assume that people only marry, go to school or have children in order to collect ...

Miss Manners knows the answer. Cooperative dinners and restaurant excursions have taken over ordinary socializing, to the ...

I feel guilty declining these invitations, but at the same time, I honestly believe these are just gift-grabbing events.

We have friends who seem to think every little milestone should be celebrated like a small wedding. They hold celebrations and attach a wish list, sometimes with hundreds of gift ideas, to every ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin addresses the issue of friends who host numerous gift-centric ...

Does the letter writer need to explain why they’re not attending all their friends’ big parties?

However, Miss Manners sadly notes that it does sound as if that is what your friends are doing. That they can manage to keep ...