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Advice on Holiday Tipping - Who Do You Tip and How Much?

I patronize a smoothie cart in New York City nearly every morning. It is a small business run by a husband and wife. They are nice people. Over the last year, I have spent an estimated $700 with them. I am definitely a regular.

I tend not to tip because I am a regular customer and they can count on me almost daily Monday - Friday. I witnessed another regular customer purchase $3 box of cut fruit and then droppeing a $20 bill in the tip box. Even the business owner was surprised. This gentleman is a regular customer, but he said it was the holidays and it was "that time of the year." I do not think excessive tipping is appropriate for businesses you patronize on a daily basis. Rather, I think tips should be reserved for people who work hard to make us comfortable.

Tipping everyone who helps you can become quite taxing on the wallet. Here are some tips suggestions for the people who make our lives easier:

Baby sitter - One night's pay, plus a small gift from your child.
Full-time nanny - One week to one month of pay based on tenure, plus a small gift from your child.
Day care service - $25-70, plus a small gift from your child.
Teacher -A $25 gift certificate is always appropriate. If you are unsure, ask your principal first.
Coaches, tutors, dance instructors, music teachers - A small gift from your child.

Maid - One week's pay. If you use a service and never know who is coming out, don't tip at all.
Gardener - $20-50 If you use a service and never know who is coming out, don't tip at all.
Garbage collector(s)- $15-30 each. If your garbage collectors are really truck drivers who operate an arm that does all the work, there is no need to tip.

Country Club - Tipping at Christmas/holiday season is appropriate regardless of the club's tipping policy. $50 for your special waiters, locker-room personnel, front-desk employees and golf professionals. For headwaiters or special service, make it $100.
Regular Parking attendants - $10-20 each
Driver/limousine service - $20-50 each - If this is your regular driver tip 20% of a month's bill.

Apartment building superintendent - $50-200. Tip less if you tip throughout the year.
Apartment Doorman/concierge - $10-80 or more each, depending upon building. Those who serve you more should get a bigger tip.
Apartment building handyman - $15-40 each
Apartment building elevator operators - $15-40 each

Shampoo - $10
Manicurist/pedicurist - Cost of 1 session ($15 or more)
Hairdresser/stylist - Cost of 1 session ($15 or more)
Massage therapist - Cost of 1 session $15 or more
Personal trainer - $60-100 upon reaching goal, or cost of 1 session

USPS Mail carrier - Non-cash gifts not to exceed the value of $20. This is for mail carriers that you know and see regularly.*
UPS - Regular driver Has no formal policy. Drivers don't expect tips but can accept them.
FedEx - Not allowed to accept anything over the value of $75. No cash gifts accepted.
Newspaper carrier Daily - $25 - 50, weekend - $10
Regular overnight delivery person - $10-30





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Combine Customer Rewards with Coupons for Major Discounts!

Recently, I shopped at Macy's to make a purchase over $100. As a Macy’s credit card holder, I receive tons of coupons in the mail. I also receive bonus reward certificates of $25 when I spend a certain amount of money.

On this particular occasion, I had a $25 off of $100 coupon, $25 a bonus reward certificate and 20% off coupon. My total purchase came to about $110. Of course, I pulled out my calculator to do the math.

If I used the 20% off coupon, I would only have saved an estimated $22, so I opted to use my $25 off $100 coupon. That got me down to $85. To seal the discount deal, I used my $25 bonus rewards certificate. The final sale was around $60. I saved $50 using coupons a.k.a. FREE MONEY.

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New York Holiday Shopping Tips

Hundreds of thousands of people come into New York City during the holidays to shop. And there are certainly very cool things to see and very good places to shop. I commute to New York City daily, so I am in the perfect position to provide some tips to make your holiday shopping in NYC go smoothly:

Shop Monday and Tuesday - Monday and Tuesday are slower days in NYC. For one, Broadway is dark on Monday, so fewer people will be there to see shows. And in general Monday and Tuesday have less people in town. Most people come in Wednesday through Sunday.

Shop Between 10am and 3pm - THOUSANDS of people use the subway system and commuter rails from 7-9am and 3pm-7pm. You will find less crowding on the trains and on the streets between 10-3pm. I overheard shoppers getting on the 4:43 train back to New Jersey complaining about how crowded it was at that time. After 4pm is rush hour and you can count on all mass transit being crowded.

Avoid Paying Tax On Your Purchases - According to About.com "...there is a year-round exemption from New York State sales and use taxes for clothing, footwear, and items used to make or repair exempt clothing, costing less than $110 per item or pair. The exemption does not apply to locally imposed sales and use taxes unless the county or city imposing those taxes elected the exemption." So if you don't need to buy a $115 purse - then don't to save on the taxes.

Matinee Wednesday - People from all over come to save on Broadway tickets and see a matinee. Unless you are going to NYC for the matinee, avoid coming on this day.


Use Mass Transit - Don't bother with a car. Parking is horrendous and parking lots are outrageously expensive. Buy a one day unlimited one day fun pass Metrocard for $. Also, go to the MTA website to see the various discounts you can get around town with a Metrocard.

BONUS RETAIL SECRETS TIP! - If you have time to take in a museum, go to The Museum of Natural History. All though they list prices, they are merely SUGGESTED DONATIONS. If you just want to see the museum, then you can pay whatever you want. It could be $1 or $5 or $.50. Again the prices they list for GENERAL ADMISSION are suggested donations. Don't pay the full admission - unless you want to.





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Gifts for Healthly Lifestyles and Green Consumers

There was a great article in The Wall Street Journal today about "green" gift-giving. As you all know, global warming is a very serious matter. So it goes a long way if you consider giving "green" gifts this year as many people are passionate about it. Or just do it because it good for the earth.

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