What do you tip your cleaning lady for Christmas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing. I use a lot of regularly scheduled services and I don't tip them, I don't know why I would give a holiday bonus to the cleaning service. Pest control comes monthly, yard maintenance, trash removal, car detailing. I pay the price they ask for their service.

I think people give Christmas tips out of guilt. Otherwise why not tip year round? I have no guilt about purchasing a service a company or individual has advertised.

This. I use a service and I think it is the owners responsibility to tip her staff. I don't have the same people cleaning my house every time so why would I just randomly tip whoever happened to show up that week. If I employed a particular person to do the cleaning, then I'd tip her/him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing. I use a lot of regularly scheduled services and I don't tip them, I don't know why I would give a holiday bonus to the cleaning service. Pest control comes monthly, yard maintenance, trash removal, car detailing. I pay the price they ask for their service.

I think people give Christmas tips out of guilt. Otherwise why not tip year round? I have no guilt about purchasing a service a company or individual has advertised.

It's not guilt. That's a really distorted and negative way of looking at it.

It's part of the spirit of the season. Being generous and giving. Showing appreciation for someone who works for you, who makes your life easier.

People should be giving a note of appreciation at the very least.

[Anonymous]

I use Maid Brigade to clean my not-very-big older house. I pay $189 every two weeks for a crew of three people. At Christmas, I tip $200 to the crew leader & $100 each to the other two team members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's not guilt. That's a really distorted and negative way of looking at it.

It's part of the spirit of the season. Being generous and giving. Showing appreciation for someone who works for you, who makes your life easier.

People should be giving a note of appreciation at the very least.

Please, tell me about the notes of appreciation you write or tips you give for your UPS and FedEx delivery guys, mail carrier, trash guys, janitors who clean your office overnight, dry cleaner, personal trainer or gym class instructor, pharmacist, and so on.

[Anonymous]

We pay $135 per week, and give double that for a Christmas bonus, so $270.

[Anonymous]

Nada. They get a salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's not guilt. That's a really distorted and negative way of looking at it.

It's part of the spirit of the season. Being generous and giving. Showing appreciation for someone who works for you, who makes your life easier.

People should be giving a note of appreciation at the very least.

Please, tell me about the notes of appreciation you write or tips you give for your UPS and FedEx delivery guys, mail carrier, trash guys, janitors who clean your office overnight, dry cleaner, personal trainer or gym class instructor, pharmacist, and so on.

I hope your life gets happier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have 4 people who come bi-weekly to clean my house. They work for a service that I pay $120 per cleaning. Am I expected to tip the owner of the service or each cleaner? I can't afford to pay these people an extra cleaning each! BTW-no one tips me for doing my job. So tired of all this tipping!

We have three women who clean our house for $125. We tip them $50 each, or a total of $150. These women come into our home, wipe up our sons pee off the toilet and the food that got stuck to their high chair, they carefully handle our valuables, they strip our beds and wash the sheets we sleep (and do other intimate things) in, and most of all they take away our stress. They deserve a tip to show our appreciation at the holidays. Come on, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rich Bitch Problems

Oh, do you not think this is of interest to the cleaner? Yeah, I'm sure she doesn't give a damn. ~sarcasm~

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's not guilt.
That's a really distorted and negative way of looking at it.


It's part of the spirit of the season. Being generous and giving. Showing appreciation for someone who works for you, who makes your life easier.

People should be giving a note of appreciation at the very least.

Please, tell me about the notes of appreciation you write or tips you give for your UPS and FedEx delivery guys, mail carrier, trash guys, janitors who clean your office overnight, dry cleaner, personal trainer or gym class instructor, pharmacist, and so on.

I do tip some of these people. I tip mail carrier, the guy who picks up the dry cleaning from my house, and I'm thinking of doing a personal note and gift card to my yoga teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing. I use a lot of regularly scheduled services and I don't tip them, I don't know why I would give a holiday bonus to the cleaning service. Pest control comes monthly, yard maintenance, trash removal, car detailing. I pay the price they ask for their service.

I think people give Christmas tips out of guilt. Otherwise why not tip year round? I have no guilt about purchasing a service a company or individual has advertised.

Yeah, my company shouldn't give me a damn bonus at the end of the year either. They should just pay me my regular salary.

[Anonymous]

I'm holding off on hiring a cleaning person until January for this reason. I DO feel guilty if I don't tip a person that does a personal service for me in my home during the holidays.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I guess we must be the stingy family. We gave our bi weekly cleaners $40. We pay $80 for a regular cleaning which takes less than an hour for two people, whch I think is excessive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We usually pay $125 for cleaning.

Tip her $25 additional for Christmas. She is more than happy with it which suggests that either others don't give any tip or she is happy with whatever she gets.

I hope that you mean an extra $125. Of course she's being polite if it's only $25, but that's far from generous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's not guilt.
That's a really distorted and negative way of looking at it.


It's part of the spirit of the season. Being generous and giving. Showing appreciation for someone who works for you, who makes your life easier.

People should be giving a note of appreciation at the very least.

Please, tell me about the notes of appreciation you write or tips you give for your UPS and FedEx delivery guys, mail carrier, trash guys, janitors who clean your office overnight, dry cleaner, personal trainer or gym class instructor, pharmacist, and so on.

I do tip some of these people. I tip mail carrier, the guy who picks up the dry cleaning from my house, and I'm thinking of doing a personal note and gift card to my yoga teacher.

They are federal employees who are not allowed to accept cash tips for services. Look it up.