To ask who you tip at Christmas and how much?

I vote for us all giving ourselves a tip. 😬

I mostly can and will do these things myself, but if someone does it for a living they're already being paid.

I tip the hairdresser every time.
Cleaner a weeks' wages, and I might get her daughter a present.
Binmen, no, though one year when we'd had loads of building work and our bins had been a pain I left them some beer.

I'd say gardener or window cleaner anyone that has to work outside in this frosty cold I'd be hating my job right now if I was outside for work a tip doesn't have to be huge either I was in the nail shop yesterday and an old man tipped an extra £5 for his pedicure and that £5 brought smiles and much appreciation it's a sign to show your greatful it doesn't have to extravagant amounts of money :) xx

Cleaner - yes, £20 and some handcream
Gardener - yes £20 and some flapjacks (both come for 2 hours a fortnight)
Massage therapist £20 and a little present (she has been coming to me once a month for about 9 years and we know each other well)
Posties - no, there are lots of them and I make them flapjacks and provide water throughout the year
other delivery people see above
bin men no - we have to leave our bins at the end of the drive and I'm not convinced that anything we leave for them would still be there when they get there

Bin men £20, postman £20, cleaner £50.

I buy my beautician a nice gift.

They're not expecting it.
They are well aware that some folk aren't rolling in cash.

Just the dog walker who I tend to give a small gift and a voucher for about £50.

Even in a smallish village we don't have a single regular postie and I have no idea if the bin crew are the same each week or not.

I cut my own hair and do my own cleaning, so I suppose I also could give myself a tip

I tip waiters. That’s about it. Having said that the meals I’ve booked for over Christmas have already been paid for so I won’t be tipping the waiters.
My hairdresser is expensive anyway so I don’t tip.
I don’t see the bin men. I don’t have a gardener.
I always bought gifts for school staff when DCs were at primary school.
My grandma always gave the bin man a tip and he always gave her a Christmas card. That was in the days when he would carry her metal bin on his back from her back door, down the drive empty it and carry it back to her back door. Oh the nostalgia! She always tipped the milkman too.

Nope.
Remember 20 quid is loose change to some MN not so stealth boasters though.

No-one

Not very stealthy stealth post I'd assume. 🫣

I function without all of these people.

Nobody.
Nothing.
In the UK, where I live, people are paid to do a job and/or set their own rates of pay.

Paper delivery person £30
Milk delivery person £30
Hairdresser
Give her a bottle of champagne and £30 contribution to drinks fund for salon night out
Cleaner
Give her 2 weeks off while paying her plus £50 plus wine and a hamper

Plenty of private sector people don’t either.

I’ll tip our cleaner as she comes regularly and she’s AMAZING. We don’t have other services regularly

To show that you appreciate them for doing something you can't or won't do for yourself

That's their job though?!
If in America fair enough
Here in the UK we have minimum wage.
It just doesn't make sense that some jobs get tips but others don't.
Also seems like a patronising throw back to the 1800s or something throwing crumbs to the workers

Postman £10
Waiters if we go out but we do that normally
My Mum's care home staff made them a hamper of food and drinks worth about £50

No one. This isn't America

Same.

Hairdresser and nail technician £20 each

nail lady - bottle of fizz
teachers - token gift
priest - £10
liturgy teacher - chocs and small gift
riding instructor - biscuits

cleaners - nothing. they are agency and different ladies come most weeks. feel a bit bad about this one but as we dont have a regular person i dont feel connected.

no idea who postie & bin men are.

What's wrong with that?

Dh was a bus driver for a year and got verbal abuse multiple times a day, as well as physical threats daily. It's the most stressful job he's ever had and one of his very few gifts came from from a lovely regular passenger and was a candle and some bubble bath that she'd said always relaxes her after a stressful day. He loves it and still uses a candle and fancy bubble bath for himself. He had two people buy him beer which he very much appreciated the thought but he doesn't drink and he was also very nervous about another passenger reporting him if they get in the bus and there's four cans of Carlsberg at his feet.

Our cleaner gets a Christmas gift (equivalent money of another 3 hour clean). She's become more of a friend than a worker and she deserves it.

I remember, as a child in the 70's, my parents always gave a tip to the bin men and the postman.
This was not a rich area but most people did the same.
I still do this but the service is nowhere near as good as it used to be.
I worked for HSBC for years and lots of our regular customers would buy us wine and chocolates.
It's just a part of Christmas for me.