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 week’s wages

I just do a nice box of chocolates or something similar.

I don’t do a money tip but I do pay year round even though she’s self employed. So, if she takes a week off at Christmas she gets paid even though she hasn’t cleaned ifyswim.

£90 (2 weeks wages) and nice chocolates

Our cleaner comes twice, sometimes 3 times a week. We give her £100 and spend the same again on gifts. She has been cleaning and doing other odd jobs for us for 20 years.

we give an extra week’s wages and a bottle of champagne.

A week’s wages or a paid week off depending on how it falls, plus a pannetone/cake/chocs. Same for her birthday. Two weeks’ paid summer hols.

£100 and luxury goodies hamper because she goes above and beyond for almost 10 years now

Same as many, a weeks pay and a bottle of champagne. My cleaner has a waiting list as long as her arm and is very much in demand, so I want to keep her. Though I think what you have done is fine,

I give her a week’s money. And I buy her a gift whenever I go on holiday and also for her birthday. tbh she goes on holiday more than I do.

For a monthly cleaner that’s fine. I give mine £50, plus a gift of perfume/wine/posh chocolate. I have a rota. This year will be champagne. A Xmas present and advent calendar (& Easter egg) for her dc. Her birthday is the same as mine so I pop an extra £50 in a card for her to treat herself.

An extra weeks money and a gift of some sort. This year I've got her a box of thermal socks because she insists on taking her shoes off, I have hard floors and I don't want her getting chilblains like I do!

My mum’s cleaner does 3 hours once per week and my mum gets her a skincare giff set and £50 cash.

Two week's wages in cash in an envelope and a small box of chocolates.

A box of chocolates. I’m already paying her to do 2 hours and I know she doesn’t stay for that long.

I’m wondering how much people who give their cleaner £400 are spending on relative’s Christmas gifts? I wouldn’t usually be spending that on my dc. We do £40 plus card.

We do an extra week’s wages in a Christmas card along with a tin of chocs that she will take home ans share with her kids. She’s fab (also cat sits for us when we go away!) but I think she’d probably feel uncomfortable if we put a massive wadge of cash in an envelope!

I pay an extra week at Christmas. She is a young Mum and I know when I was one, cash would have been most needed. She will offer to help with stuff that is not her job and turns down many offers of work. A few people have asked through me and she has been unable to accept. She isworth it, I can afford it and want to thank her. Do same for mobile hairdresser.

Snort....

I give a gift, different each year, more or less to the value of what we pay her for the clean. She charges more an hour than I earn! She comes every other week & according to dh doesn’t always stay for the allotted time so not inclined to be as generous as some of you.

A month's wages and a nice hand care/cream set.

Like many PP, a week's wages and some chocolates

A weeks wage and a box of biscuits

An extra week's pay. They don't earn much and have people to buy presents for around Christmas.

I’m a cleaner.

It’s usually cash, but tbh usually an extra £20. Sometimes it’s chocolate or Prosecco.

Last year I got £100 off one of my twice a week clients’ . Very unexpected and appreciated- but not the norm for most clients.

Give what you want/can. Overall the business you give your cleaner is worth more to them, than a gift.

A weeks wages to cover the week she doesn’t come (she’s self employed) and some posh chocs.