To ask who you tip at Christmas and how much?

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Inspired by another thread.

Postie?
Hairdresser?
Cleaner?
Window cleaner?
Gardener?

Anyone else? Do you tip people who are in any way friends even if you pay them for a service? Do you give gifts rather than money?

I don't tip anything to anyone. Or buy gifts etc. Why make an already incredibly expensive time even more costly when the people you mention are paid anyway?

I love comments like this on MN. It means by tipping I can get great tables in popular restaurants and first pick of appointments at my hairdressers.

Thought provoking @AuntieJoyce

If I bung the Binmen you reckon they'd do an extra round?

Tenner for my postie
Thirty for my cleaner

I don't see my bin men so don't tip them

I have a gift for cleaner and nanny and will give them £50 each as well as paid time off over Christmas.

Did I read right …..someone upthread gave the bus driver a candle?

I don’t tip the bin men. I probably would if they were going out of their way for me in some respects like taking extra bags.

Lollipop man; bottle of whisky.
Binmen; crate of beer (leave it on top of bin with a massive bow. To this day it’s still never been pinched by a passer by!)

nobody (but I don't have a cleaner, window cleaner and gardener). I never tip the postie!

Posties - tin of nice biscuits to the sorting office
Binmen - £10 if I see them

We have a stack of quality street tubs for our extremely hard working delivery people our Evri guy is so fabulous particularly it’s nice to give them recognition they’re delivering hundreds a day and most to mine (4 teenagers and amazon prime) and in all weathers. And the milkman and postie.

I’ll give my staff an amazon voucher each we didn’t do a get together this year we all work remotely and my housekeeper £50 extra

I give my hairdresser a Christmas present in addition to her usual 10 pound tip. I would normally do so with my nail technician but have had to use various this year so won't do so ( just tip each visit). I give the postie 50 as he is such a great guy and goes out of his way to help. He has been with us for 5 years now and especially during Covid he was great. Don't do the bin men or the window cleaner who is new. I'm also going to tip our DPD driver as he is so good too and has been a regular this year. We get so much post and parcels.

No one. I’ve not got the money to.

Next door left out a load of treats for delivery drivers in their porch, only they forgot they moved to an absolute shit hole and not in an instagrammable, middle class area.

The whole box was nicked by a passer an hour later. They were gutted but I think they have learned their lesson.

I always smile at the beer left on top of bins - that would last about ten seconds here.

I’d never tip the postman. My office over looks the front of the house and I am sat there all day, and the amount of times i’ve seen them shove a “missed delivery” card through instead of ringing the bell is a joke and when I run down the stairs or shout out the window, they say they aren’t allowed to come back now the card is delivered, so sod them.

Going by this thread the posties and bin men must be making a fortune at Xmas. Imagine if everyone left £20 out for them! As a shop worker, we get a few customers give a box of chocs or biscuits to share. I'm not complaing, just didn't think it was the norm to leave £20 for them.

Or the cleaners getting an extra £50-100!

Yep. She drives our school bus and goes above and beyond in restoring lost property and generally looking after the kids. She makes the most resident school bullies sit up front with her.
She's the most important person I tip.

I was a cleaner many many moons ago and one of the houses did give me about £100 bonus and I remember being so ecstatic and shocked. It was more than my parents gave me as a christmas present that Same year. They had calculated it based on time and weeks spent.

They were the only ones who did but I'm still amazed by it.

Brilliant! Good for you! 👍

Really? I do a routine tip at restaurants (10% or rounding up), I never tip my hairdresser, and I never have difficulty getting a table, or an appointment, at either!

It's not a "tip" though, is it? It's a present for a job well done. That I can understand.

Tipping the rubbish cart operatives or whatever they are called these days is just patronising, unless eg you are elderly and they get the bin out and put it back for you even though they don't need to.

@enchantedsquirrelwood "Tipping the rubbish cart operatives or whatever they are called these days is just patronising," yeah I'd agree with that!

No one!

I usually tip the hairdresser anyway, so would do that but no one else.

I'm a gardener and I don't generally get tips at Christmas. This year I had one customer gave me £10, another a bottle of wine, and another a box of chocs. It's lovely if I do get anything, but I definitely don't expect it or think badly of anyone who doesn't!

Quite the lady bountiful

Do none of you not get a bonus at work?

I’m shocked. I give my cleaner a big tip - months money, and time off.

I also do the same for our gardener, but pay summer rate, not Winter.

I then give my team a bonus of the same, including time off.

Without these people I couldn’t function.

No I don't get a bonus at work. I'm a teacher. I don't have a gardener, a cleaner or a team. I don't tip anyone except in restaurants.