Miss Manners: My Friend Is Newly Widowed. Would Giving Her Cash Be an Insult?

Miss Manners: Friend should stop, think, before putting money in widow’s sympathy card

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am wondering if it would be crass or in poor taste to give a new widow a thoughtful sympathy card with money in it, rather than sending flowers.

Miss Manners: Would it be crass to give a young widow money rather than flowers?

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Miss Manners: Is it crass to give my newly widowed friend some money?

I find it impractical to spend a couple hundred dollars on a floral arrangement that will soon be dead, and would prefer to give her some money and a nice handwritten note. Is this acceptable?

Miss Manners: My friend is newly widowed. Would giving her cash be an insult?

I would like to give a new widow a thoughtful sympathy card with money in it, rather than sending flowers.