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Old Jan 3, 2011 | 10:48 am
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Originally Posted by GodAtum
How do you avoid services that need tipping? For example when at hotels I carry my own bags and avoid using room service.
It sounds like you in fact do know what to do.

Think about what services are done by professionals and then do them yourself. No restaurants (at best a cafeteria) and no taxis. Drive or take public transportation. If you travel, stay at B&Bs in which the owners themselves clean the room. Learn to cut, style and/or color your own hair. If not you, then ask a family member to do it or else make sure that the owner of the barber/hairdresser is the one who does all of the work including shampooing if that is part of the service. Shine your shoes. What else....

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