What present do you give your cleaner if you’ve got one

[MrsChrimbo]

If you have a cleaner, what do you give them at Christmas - present or cash?

A fresh sponge.

We give her an extra weeks wages in whatever currency required for her new years holiday that year as a bonus and a box of Audrey’s chocolates. She’s lovely and we don’t know what we’d do without her!

We give ours £50.

£50 here as well.

I have mine a weeks wages and a bottle of champagne

£50 plus box of posh chocolates here.

£100 voucher. Thats about the sane as 2 weeks' pay.

Usually an extra week's wages and a box of chocolates. This year our cleaning day falls on Christmas Day so I need to give that some thought.

I give ours £400 - she gets £110 a week. This in London also give her £400 for her birthday. It’s a lot but she’s been with us for 20 years and I really think these generous gifts have helped retain her loyalty. Plus she’s great and has a family to support back in the Philippines.

Oh now I feel tight.

I’ve been buying chocolates, wine and some smellies. There are 2 of them and I only use them once a month.

A small token like chocolates or biscuits and cash which is normally about 1.5-2 weeks pay.

we have two (they work together), so I double the wage for that week and get them chocolates (or something easily regiftable in case they don’t like it). We do the same at Easter too.

To be fair you did ask! And most people I know have a cleaner that comes every week not once a month!

Tbh if you’re just using them once a month then you can get away with it. Mine comes every week and the circus she needs to deal with when she gets here (2 kids 2 pets + 2 adults with FT jobs) she deserves a yearly salary but we tip £50 and some small gifts for her kids too.

£30 and some chocolates. Although she is not a particularly great cleaner, so I'm not too bothered if she moves on!

Our cleaner is an angel, totally reliable and she even tidies up after us as well as clean. She does 3 hours at our house and then cleans our office premises at the weekend so we pay her £100 a week. As she has 2 weeks off over Christmas, I give her £200 in cash and a nice family selection box of chocolates/biscuits for her children.

I pay double and give her a box of posh chocolates or a bottle of champagne. She’s lovely, if she wasn’t so nice or so conscientious I’d probably pay double but not bother with anything extra.

Marks and Spencer voucher - usually more like £30.

Double week, card and chocolates

I’ve cleaned for almost 15yrs. I’ve had many of my clients for a large chunk of that time.
Christmas gifts are usually chocolates, smellies or wine. Occasionally a voucher but never more than £30. Certainly no one has ever given me the price of a clean as a gift.
But then, I’m not cheap so perhaps paying me double would be too much!

Surprised at this. We have had a fortnightly cleaner for just over a year. Last Christmas I gave her nice chocs and red wine which seemed well received (yes I knew she liked red wine).
However I work in a customer service role, meeting the same people over and over, and people rarely give anything. Probably once every 5 years I get a box of chocolates. That's fine- I really don't expect anything. Just interesting why it's seen as normal to give so generously to cleaners. I have never had any of these but do people do the same for gardeners, nannies, au pairs, window cleaners?

When I had a Cleaner, I would give her a weeks wages as a bonus and a bottle of her favourite perfume.

A Clarins gift set, it’s her favourite

Ours comes weekly, we pay c 2 weeks’ pay and a box of chocolates. She is wonderful and I want her to stay!!

Ours comes every second week (and cleans 3 hours).

we gave her a card and cash (what she is paid by the cleaning company for about 1.5 hours of cleaning, I believe). But she had only just started last November so we might give her more this year. I haven’t thought about it yet.