J.J. McCorvey

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Much to Tip at the Holidays, Even if Money's Tight · 22 Dec 2021 podcast

Or you can, you know, maybe give a small token, like maybe a personalized gift, a piece of candy that they really like that you kind of

A common rule that I kept hearing was to add people to your list who have made your life easier.

And given the constraints that we've faced over the past couple of years, that might mean adding some people to the list who you maybe never tipped before.

You know, a lot of us are working from home almost exclusively now.

So there's there's maybe, you know, a delivery person, you know, who you always see dropping off lunch or a tie for other people in the building or for yourself.

There might be a FedEx delivery person on your block, you know.

who you now know on a first name basis who you might want to add to your list.

Your dog walker, you might have a new babysitter or daycare provider.

So think about how your life has changed over the past couple of years and consider whether or not those people deserve to be on your tip list.

I spoke to an etiquette professional and she suggested a hack.

She said, if you keep track of how much you pay for a specific service all year, you can add up the cost of those services and tip that service worker 10 to 15% of that amount.

Instead of trying to go back and find every person for every service, if you take good track of all these services that you pay for throughout the year, this is a quick way to get a quick amount.

I spoke to another etiquette professional, and she really emphasized the fact that these year-end tips are separate from your ongoing tips that you tip on top of the service that you get throughout the year from these professionals.

And she said that the tip can be equal to the cost of one service.

So instead of trying to calculate a percentage or even trying to ask the person how much should I tip you for a year-end tip or anything like that, you can just give them however much you would usually pay for what you go to them for.

So there are certain types of employees who can only accept certain kinds of gifts.

There are some type of workers who can't receive cash gifts at all.

So with teachers, for example, experts told me that you should definitely check the school policy for what you can give workers.

Usually a gift is okay.

You want to send your little tyke to school with a Christmas gift.

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