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Anonymous
| We use a cleaning service company Maid Cleaning Service. They usually send the same woman each week and charge our credit card. I am wondering what the typical year end tip is that I would give to this woman or should I have been tipping her all along? |
Anonymous
| When I had a cleaner service, like Merry Maids, they sent 3 women each time and were done in an hour. I paid $90 a cleaning (long time ago). I tipped $75 -- $25 each. Have no clue if that's good or bad. |
Anonymous
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I never tip during the year, but I give one week's cleaning as tip at the holidays.
I let them divvy it up however they want, I just double the check that I'm writing. |
Anonymous
| Our crew has been with us a while and I like them. I'm giving each a card w/ a $100 bill. It might be a bit high compared to others on this board, but I fall on the side of give what I can to those who are doing a job I don't want to do in order to make a better life for themselves. |
Anonymous
| I have one lady who cleans for me - she is not part of a service and thus is cheaper. I don't tip during the year, but gave her a card with $100 (what she charges me each week to clean). However, if I used a service, I'm not sure that I would tip. IMO, I am not their employer (the service is) and they should be responsible for a year end bonus if it is to be given. JMO. |
Anonymous
| I'm not going to tip my independent cleaning lady. I pay her extremely well for her work. Why should I give her money on top of that? I honestly don't understand. I have my own business, and I would never expect my clients to give me extra money just because we are approaching Christmas. So many people don't even celebrate Christmas! Maybe if I had ever worked in a company where year end bonuses were common, it would make more sense to me. |
Anonymous
| People who don't tip (and who can afford to) are so bah-humbuggy. |
Anonymous
What on earth do you mean by this? Since when do people expect money thrown at them for not doing anything..... Feeling entitled is obnoxious. |
Anonymous
| I leave my cleaning ladies a gift -- I have gotten them bottles of wine the past several years. I usuall leave them a note that says thank you for giving me extra time to enjoy wiht my family. Please enjoy this with your family this year. I was home one year when they came and got the wine and they seemed excited and pleased. One of them hugged me and two of them traded red for white -- so that has been successful for me. |
Anonymous
| I also tipped $25 each when I used a cleaning service. This year I have a private cleaner, and I'll be tipping her the amount she gets for one cleaning session. |
Anonymous
Read "A Christmas Carol" if you don't get the cultural reference.  My post is all about Scrooge and has nothing to do with the Cratchits.
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Anonymous
| What if you have been using the cleaning service only for 2 months and plan not to continue after the new year? Not to be a Scrooge, but I'm unemployed and used the service only to get me through the early months of motherhood. I was going to give $20 to the woman who does the work and $20 to the owner of the cleaning service. Does that sound about right? |
Anonymous
| We have hired a maid company to come and clean once, before we move. Should I tip these people? |
Anonymous
I live in Falls Church, VA. My cleaners come every other week and charge $85. Two cleaning ladies come. I tip them $10 each every time they come. For Christmas I tipped them $40 each and I also tipped the owner $40. Now, I'm feeling like that $40 wasn't enough. 
To complicate matters, one of my "regular" ladies did not show up but a different girl came who I've never seen before. So I put $40 in an envelope for the "missing" woman and then tipped the new girl $10 (my normal weekly tipping). |
Anonymous
That's what I do. I write the check to the woman who owns the cleaning service. She can share as she likes. |