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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m putting this on the parenting forum because I think there are some family-specific holiday pay outs.  I’m wondering to whom you give holiday bonuses/tips? I feel like I never learned this part of adulting.  If you can make a list of who you give $$ at this time of year and how much, that’d be a huge help to me!  Our HHI is $250K if that helps set the stage.

1. Mail carrier?  How much? 
2. Cleaners?  How much? 
3. Teachers?  (Our school does this through centralized donations to PTA, so that’s easy)
4.  What about activity teachers like the piano teacher or a coach? If “yes” how much?
5.  Anyone else?

We don’t celebrate Xmas, but I know that it’s a norm to give gifts at this time of year and I want to show my appreciation in a way that is in line with general cultural norms.   I want to give sane amounts to the right people.  Help!

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We tip DH’s barber $200, my hairstylist $300. We have three cleaning ladies that visit every other week. We tip each of them $250.

We tip the mail carrier $100. We tip each of the garbage collectors $150. We have a weekly mowing service and leaf cleanup crew of about five people and we tip each of them $300. We tip each one of our kids’ teachers $100, every DoorDasher an extra $10 per delivery throughout all of December, and the florist that makes all of our centerpieces $250.

We tip our personal trainers each $500 and the grocery store checkout clerks $20 every time we buy groceries throughout December. We tip an extra $5 for every Starbucks coffee and an extra 10% (35% total) on every restaurant meal during December. We tip our flight attendants $50 each, the pilots $100 each, and the TSA security staff $20 each when we fly over Christmas for vacation.

Most importantly, our kids leave a tip on Christmas Eve for Santa ($300) and each of his reindeer ($50 each). [/quote]

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