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DEAR MISS MANNERS: After my summer birthday, I mailed my thank-you notes for all the gifts I received. And because I had purchased too many stamps for last year's holiday cards, I have been using the surplus postage for the past few months so as to not be wasteful.

Imagine my chagrin when a few thank-you note recipients gently chided me for using poinsettia stamps in the summertime. Miss Manners, was it in poor taste for me to use "seasonally inappropriate" stamps for my personal correspondence?



GENTLE READER: Wrong question. Was it in poor taste, however jocular the intention, for your correspondents to complain about the stamps? For goodness' sake, do they know how often people do not receive any thanks at all for their presents?

That some people enjoy coordinating stamps with occasions, Miss Manners knows. Evidently you did so last winter. But this should not obscure the fact that stamps are the currency by which postage is paid. Do these people object if they are given bills on Presidents' Day that picture the wrong president?

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a running disagreement with my wife. Is it OK to use the side of your fork as a knife to cut food from time to time? Must one always use a knife to cut?



GENTLE READER: When spouses disagree, Miss Manners always hopes to find a solution that gives each some claim to being right. It is her little contribution to saving marriages.

However, you alone are right. For mysterious reasons having to do with the history of flatware, the fork, although adopted centuries after the knife, is considered the preferable instrument to use when possible. The most she can do for your wife is to say that if cutting with a fork is so ineffective as to splash the resisting food about, the knife should be used.


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Oh, FFS!

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I tend to agree, flan.

Responding to a thank you note to chastise the sender about the kind of postage stamps one uses?

Arguing about using a fork instead of knife to cut some foods? Although, maybe he was wrestling with a piece of meat with his fork when he could have just picked up a knife. You never about men...  hmm



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The postage stamp one is crazy!

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It seems people can no longer live their lives without checking with some advice column about the most trivial things. No wonder the fat sandwich thread was such fun.

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Seriously, if someone was scolding me about what kind of stamp I use or cutting something with a fork, I would have to tell them Piss off!

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Although, with forever stamps now, there is no need to "use them up". She could save them until next Christmas.

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Seriously? People need to seek advice about these things? Are people unable to think for themselves?

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Seriously? People need to seek advice about these things? Are people unable to think for themselves?

 In fairness, she did.  She wrote a thank you note and used the stamps she had.  It was the reaction of the OTHER people that had her puzzled.



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Of course, it the writer would just get on a message board, she could talk inane topics to her heart's content!

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FNW wrote:

Seriously? People need to seek advice about these things? Are people unable to think for themselves?

 It would seem so...

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Lawyerlady wrote:

Of course, it the writer would just get on a message board, she could talk inane topics to her heart's content!


Yup!!!

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And, we LUV to give advice! lol

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She should only use out of season stamps from now on.

Sit back and watch the heads spin.

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I would have a hard time being friends with someone who had an issue with the stamp. Sounds stupid but if they're that hung up over a simple stamp I'd hate to see what they do about the bigger issues.

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

I would have a hard time being friends with someone who had an issue with the stamp. Sounds stupid but if they're that hung up over a simple stamp I'd hate to see what they do about the bigger issues.

 How many people even send thank you notes??? Be grateful for THAT.

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Start putting the stamps on sideways.

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Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 Upside down...

flan



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flan327 wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

I would have a hard time being friends with someone who had an issue with the stamp. Sounds stupid but if they're that hung up over a simple stamp I'd hate to see what they do about the bigger issues.

 How many people even send thank you notes??? Be grateful for THAT.

flan

 That's pretty much what I was thinking.



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flan327 wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 Upside down...

flan

 Supposedly putting a stamp on upside down means you love the person.



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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 Upside down...

flan

 Supposedly putting a stamp on upside down means you love the person.

 I didn't know that!

flan



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Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 This. Also, put it not quite in the corner and angled a bit.

May as well make their complaining worthwhile wink



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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 Upside down...

flan

 Supposedly putting a stamp on upside down means you love the person.

When you fly a flag upside down, it means something very different. 

 



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Yes - doesn't that mean extreme distress?

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Tignanello wrote:

Yes - doesn't that mean extreme distress?

Yes, it's like SOS . 

 

 



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So what about those return address labels you get for free from charities hoping to get you to donate since they sent you a free "gift". Do you feel bad about using them without donating to the charity? I don't. I probably have a 10 year supply of the suckers.

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

So what about those return address labels you get for free from charities hoping to get you to donate since they sent you a free "gift". Do you feel bad about using them without donating to the charity? I don't. I probably have a 10 year supply of the suckers.

 I have a ton too. I figure I have so many because I donate, so I don't feel bad at all. 



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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

So what about those return address labels you get for free from charities hoping to get you to donate since they sent you a free "gift". Do you feel bad about using them without donating to the charity? I don't. I probably have a 10 year supply of the suckers.




No, I don't feel bad. I didn't solicit them, they solicited me. And, besides, what are you going to do with them anyway? Throw them away? How does that somehow benefit them if you throw them away after they already made them?

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ed11563 wrote:

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 Upside down...

flan

 Supposedly putting a stamp on upside down means you love the person.

When you fly a flag upside down, it means something very different. 

 





If I saw a stamp upside down, I would just figure someone was in a hurry and not paying attention.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

So what about those return address labels you get for free from charities hoping to get you to donate since they sent you a free "gift". Do you feel bad about using them without donating to the charity? I don't. I probably have a 10 year supply of the suckers.


 



No, I don't feel bad. I didn't solicit them, they solicited me. And, besides, what are you going to do with them anyway? Throw them away? How does that somehow benefit them if you throw them away after they already made them?

I throw them away because they're ugly...

flan 



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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

So what about those return address labels you get for free from charities hoping to get you to donate since they sent you a free "gift". Do you feel bad about using them without donating to the charity? I don't. I probably have a 10 year supply of the suckers.


 



No, I don't feel bad. I didn't solicit them, they solicited me. And, besides, what are you going to do with them anyway? Throw them away? How does that somehow benefit them if you throw them away after they already made them?

 Besides, the whole point is to guilt you into giving, and that's WRONG.



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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 Upside down...

flan

 Supposedly putting a stamp on upside down means you love the person.

 OH gosh I have certainly been sending mixed messages to my trash company, in fact I must be totally infatuated, as I sometimes address the envelope and discover IT is upside down.  who knew I was such a floozy all this time~!



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Riding wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
flan327 wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

Start putting the stamps on sideways.

 Upside down...

flan

 Supposedly putting a stamp on upside down means you love the person.

 OH gosh I have certainly been sending mixed messages to my trash company, in fact I must be totally infatuated, as I sometimes address the envelope and discover IT is upside down.  who knew I was such a floozy all this time~!

Where is my shocked face? LOL  I'm in the floozy club! 



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Lawyerlady wrote:

Of course, it the writer would just get on a message board, she could talk inane topics to her heart's content!

Best post on this thread... so far. wink 



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ahh at least I have great company, moves over on the floozy bench to give Czech room to sit

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I see there is a bucket of ice next to that bench. ;)

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If my friends complained about my stamps I'd tell them to bite me & find new friends.

I wonder how this couple managed to get married if this is the sort of crap they argue about.

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Czech doesn't like to brag, but she is actually the Queen of the Floozy Club.

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just Czech wrote:

I see there is a bucket of ice next to that bench. ;)

 yes, just waiting....



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flan327 wrote:

Czech doesn't like to brag, but she is actually the Queen of the Floozy Club.

flan

   and I am her lady in waiting ha ha



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