Avoiding tipping?
Jan 3, 2011 | 9:00 am
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Avoiding tipping?
How do you avoid services that need tipping? For example when at hotels I carry my own bags and avoid using room service.
Jan 3, 2011 | 9:02 am
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I hardly ever carry small cash (or any cash) so I hate the scramble for singles or fives at the end of a tip-required interaction, as with bellhops or valet parking. I don't mind tipping for room service, dining, bar, etc. if I can add the sum to the tab, but I don't like having to keep money in my wallet. I do avoid bellhops and valet for this reason and would rather carry my own bags and park my own car anyway.
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Jan 3, 2011 | 10:48 am
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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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Jan 4, 2011 | 12:21 am
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I'm also totally fine with restaurant tipping (and rather generous with it), but don't like tipping for bellhops/skycaps/etc. either, and will therefore avoid their services unless I really need them (i.e. if I have more bags than I can reasonably carry on my own). Of course, if I do use them, I'll tip appropriately, but I prefer to simply avoid them instead.
Jan 4, 2011 | 3:27 am
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if I can do it myself, I do - especially the bags; i do not use the skycaps either.. very few exceptions why I would and then when they started mandatory charges, I won't even look at them
I don't tip the hotel/car rental shuttle driver if he/she doesn't touch my bags
some places you just tip.. restaurant where served or cabs and there really isn't anyway around it or bartenders
I never understood why its customary to give a hair cutter a tip. they are paid more than min wage.. for me.. its a 15 minute job tops. In the end they get 2 bucks from me
I don't tip the hotel/car rental shuttle driver if he/she doesn't touch my bags
some places you just tip.. restaurant where served or cabs and there really isn't anyway around it or bartenders
I never understood why its customary to give a hair cutter a tip. they are paid more than min wage.. for me.. its a 15 minute job tops. In the end they get 2 bucks from me
Jan 4, 2011 | 4:03 am
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I hardly ever carry small cash (or any cash) so I hate the scramble for singles or fives at the end of a tip-required interaction, as with bellhops or valet parking. I don't mind tipping for room service, dining, bar, etc. if I can add the sum to the tab, but I don't like having to keep money in my wallet. I do avoid bellhops and valet for this reason and would rather carry my own bags and park my own car anyway.
) unless I have received what I consider to be an outstanding service. Otherwise what's the point of tipping?
Jan 4, 2011 | 7:42 am
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Jan 4, 2011 | 7:54 am
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