Do you tip a cleaning service?
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Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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Glamcookie - Jan 25, 2008 10:37:23 am PST #5496 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Trudy Booth - Jan 25, 2008 10:38:26 am PST #5497 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Do you tip a cleaning service?
I would, but I'm a little tip-happy and I've never actually had one.
Glamcookie - Jan 25, 2008 10:40:36 am PST #5498 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
They are doing a really good job. Is it cool to just add it to the check total do you think? I don't have cash on me.
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 10:40:43 am PST #5499 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I don't tip every time, but I give a huge bonus/tip around the holidays.
Glamcookie - Jan 25, 2008 10:41:48 am PST #5500 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
They are here to do a post-construction cleaning, but I think I'm going to start having them come every two weeks.
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 10:43:34 am PST #5501 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
That's what we started doing this past fall, and it's been a godsend.
Steph L. - Jan 25, 2008 10:46:49 am PST #5502 of 10001
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Until embarrassingly recently, it never even occurred to me that someone wouldn't live paycheck-to-paycheck.
I have a small emergency fund (~1 month's expenses in a high[ish]-yield online savings account), and a "cushion" of sorts in savings at my local bank (in case monthly bills are high, or the car insurance premium is due, etc.), but for the most part, my paychecks (which go into my checking account) are budgeted and every dollar is accounted for.
Is that paycheck-to-paycheck? I've never been quite clear on what people mean when they use that phrase. Or is it one of those phrases that might mean different things to different people?
Ever since I moved in with The Boy, my minimum monthly expenses come out to just about 1 takehome paycheck (I get paid every other week), but I have a year of car payments left, along with a little over $9,000 in credit card debt (0%, fortunately), so I'm throwing as much of the rest of my monthly income at my debt as I possibly can.
In fact, this month marks the first time in literally years that my credit card debt will be under $10,000. I aim to get it paid off by the end of 2008, if not sooner.
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 10:48:51 am PST #5503 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I have a small emergency fund (~1 month's expenses in a high[ish]-yield online savings account), and a "cushion" of sorts in savings at my local bank (in case monthly bills are high, or the car insurance premium is due, etc.), but for the most part, my paychecks (which go into my checking account) are budgeted and every dollar is accounted for.That's my definition of paycheck-to-paycheck. Just the idea that you need to budget each paycheck and, as a result, you'd be screwed if a paycheck didn't come.
megan walker - Jan 25, 2008 10:48:55 am PST #5504 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's what we started doing this past fall, and it's been a godsend.
Very much this. Ours is a fortune though because my housemate wanted to make sure that the cleaners were real employees with health insurance and the like.
I can't really complain though because my rent and bills together are still a very good deal. And it eliminates one of the biggest housemate issues.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 25, 2008 10:49:55 am PST #5505 of 10001
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I think paycheck to paycheck means you have NO emergency fund at all. I, for example, have no savings account, and often, after paying my bills, have only $50 in my checking account, so if something happens I am screwed, have to use credit, or ask my mother for money. That is how I define it, but I guess others could do it differently
ETA: and I guess they do.
My thing is, I live so much paycheck to paycheck that I don't even budget. I get the paycheck and pay bills until there is no money left until I get the next one.