How much for holiday gifts now?

[Anonymous]

Why pay tip lesson teacher? I pay $75 for 45 min. This is a good wage. Why the holiday tip? This feels out of control to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Our cleaner we give $100 cash.
Teachers we do $25 each
Daughters hair person ( she is AA and has box braids done regularly) $100 gift card
Babysitter $50 gift card

What about when there is a main cleaner and 2-3 helpers? I pay $180 per clean. Would $40-50 on a small chocolate box to each cleaner be good?

NO! None of these people want chocolate as a gift, let alone $40 worth. They want cash. They NEED cash. Chocolate box doesn't pay the electric bill. How naive!

Calm down. When I wrote cash on top of chocolate box, I meant it literally. A small festive chocolate box with an envelope of cash tape on top.

Still lame

What state-of-the-art cool gift are you giving your housecleaners, praytell?

Cash. Just cash. $200 split between 4 of them. They don’t want the candy.

I don’t tip anyone else on OP’s list.

[Anonymous]

Bump- how much are you giving Daycare teachers? There are 3-4 teachers per classroom and I have two kids.

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I never tip. I am courteous all year, and my kids are well-behaved.

It isn't a tip it is a gift. If you have cleaners (I don't) you should most certainly tip them! When I had cleaners years ago 2x a month (my spouse was deployed) I gave them a month's wage between them. I do know most people who will give a week's wage for the year end gift.

We like one teacher this year and the other teacher is not good (yells and my child is scared to go to school but teacher and principal don't change) and each class has an aide. Usually class parents do a pool for teachers and aides so I will give to that ($20-$25 a class). Last year I gave to that and gave the teachers a separate gift card because liked them so much, but this year I won't because of the one not good teacher.

I would give daycare teachers more because unless you are in some fancy child care facility they aren't making a great wage. I think the people who take care of your kids are really important. When I was a babysitter in high school (babysat for one family 3-4 days after school, weekend nights and sometimes when they went away for a night) they would give me $50-$100 at Christmas and I thought that was so kind. Granted this was now 20 years ago...

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Cash is all anyone wants. No one wants a box of chocolate or other foods or any little trinkets.

We usually do $50 per classroom teacher and $10-15 per specialist teacher. We don’t have house cleaners. I would not give a gift to private music lesson teachers bc you’re already paying them a lot. I get my hair cut at great clips every couple months and it’s always someone different so no tip for that. Don’t give gifts to mail carrier or garbage guys bc I don’t see them or know who they are anyway and don’t know how to give it to them.

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Anonymous wrote:Cash is all anyone wants. No one wants a box of chocolate or other foods or any little trinkets.

We usually do $50 per classroom teacher and $10-15 per specialist teacher. We don’t have house cleaners. I would not give a gift to private music lesson teachers bc you’re already paying them a lot. I get my hair cut at great clips every couple months and it’s always someone different so no tip for that. Don’t give gifts to mail carrier or garbage guys bc I don’t see them or know who they are anyway and don’t know how to give it to them.

Oh and my kids don’t ride the bus (we walk to/from school). I think tipping culture is out of control. It’s nice to give cash gifts to people you see regularly/who perform a service that benefits you and who do work really hard and don’t make much money. That’s why I give teacher gifts. But in general, I’d rather give my money to charity than be spending so much on holiday gifts.

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Anonymous wrote:Why pay tip lesson teacher? I pay $75 for 45 min. This is a good wage. Why the holiday tip? This feels out of control to me.

My child’s private music teacher works through a music school, so I assume he only gets a cut and the music school keeps some of what I pay.

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Anonymous wrote:Damn I had been stalking the Target gift card sale. I missed it

Ugh dang it Target spams me with every sale except the one I was waiting for!

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Anonymous wrote:Why pay tip lesson teacher? I pay $75 for 45 min. This is a good wage. Why the holiday tip? This feels out of control to me.

My child’s private music teacher works through a music school, so I assume he only gets a cut and the music school keeps some of what I pay.

Yeah our music teachers have been through schools. They aren’t getting all the fee. And I appreciate the niceness guidance and patience they show. Listening to a kid murder a cello or beat on a drum you deserve a present.