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Originally Posted by J1ceasar
Here ya go
Mail service $10-20
Hair dressers for ladies 20-50
Barbers $10-20
Lawn guys $ 20
Ups / fedex if slot of delivery's $10
Remember if you can't afford it . At least give out boxes of cookies in or chocolate even easier are restaurants gift cards from burger king denny's or whatever. Don't forget h.o.a. or gifting servers at restaurants you go to every week ! Even dollar store items are appreciated .
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This may sound hard but I do not tip mail delivery people. These people make a decent living, have excellent health care and have better pensions than I have any the same goes for Fed X and UPS drivers. I do not tip my barber at Christmas as I tip him $4-5 every time I go which is about every three weeks. I do tip the paper delivery person $20 because they do not make a lot of money. I always tip at restaurants 20% if the service is good but will consider cutting this back somewhat if an when the minimum wage goes to $15 an hour for them. This tipping thing has gotten out of hand when in many stores there is a tip jar at the counter which I do not contribute to. I do not tip my lawn service guy. I pay him $900 a year to cut a very small yard where he is in and out in 5 minutes so I think he is adequately compensated. When you break it down he comes every week for 9 months and every other week for three months in winter. This equals about 42 visits a year at 5 minutes a visit. If you do the math he spends about 3.5 hours a year at my house which equates to $257 an hour more than my lawyer charges. Why would I tip him. All as I’m saying is that you need to look at a lot of these situations and in many of them there is no need for a tip. I worked as a sales person for over 35 years doing a service for my customers. I never received a tip nor did I expect one. My employer compensated me for my performance and that was good enough.