How To Tip

When someone offers you with a helpful service, you thank them with a tip. You often tip someone in your personal life as this is a customary process that shows your appreciation of the service provided to you.

You reward people who tend to make your life usually more enjoyable and easier. It is highly important to be discreet in your act of giving tip, but remember to be generous so that the person to whom you offer tip will remember you for long time after your departure and offer you warm welcome earnestly. This article provides you with some important guidelines for tipping.

The first and the most important factor that you need to keep in your mind while giving tip is to watch out your own financial circumstances. Acceptable tips can range from high ends to low ends. But you need to keep in mind your capability of payment other than paying huge sum for good service.

Figure out what kind of service it is you're receiving. Some services should receive percentage-based tips, while others are more of a flat cost (most of the time). A car washer, coat checker or furniture movers should require a flat rate. Other people like hairstylists and waiters should receive 15 percent to 20 percent, sometimes more. Pizza delivery service is usually about 10 percent, but no less than $2.

Use your best judgment. What's the real different between, say, 15 percent and 20 percent, when it means a matter of a dollar? Well, it says a lot to the person who you're tipping. The additional dollar (or one fewer) tells them how they're doing. You're essentially helping others' future experiences with that person. For things like babysitters, nannies or house cleaners, tip them at the end of each month at an amount you see fit. No more than one week's pay for a month of work, but the work they do is constant and not easy, so they do deserve a heftier tip. So, keep things like that in mind.

Be discreet. Don't flaunt how much you're tipping someone at a restaurant by living the bill in plain view. If you're paying for a household service, placing the tip in an envelope is a good idea. Basically, you want to keep the tip transaction -- good or bad -- between you and the person receiving the tip.