Are gifts a done thing for a first communion? We just got invited to the next door neighbor's son's a week from Sunday.

My coworker just asked the same thing! Except it's a nephew in her case. The verdict was yes, gifts/money.

For goodness sake, you can't just leave it to the last minute!

The guy across the cubicle wall from me may just achieve an aneurysm. But I am going home.

Excellent. Thanks, people. My niece and nephew were out of the country when they did theirs, so I had no clue.

Yay, Perkins, and go Gud!

Sorry about the work stress, Connie and sarameg. I'm in the middle of student move-out, which is our second-busiest week at work (behind student move-in), plus I'm weaning myself off Celexa a tad bit faster than doctor's orders, so I've discovered that I'm prone to WILD mood swings this week. Very unpredictable!

I usually tip 20% for most everything, unless I know the person, or I find them unbearably charming somehow, and then I tip a little more.

Oh! Tip type question! So, yesterday I got a massage, because I'd "won" an hour gift certificate there at a silent auction. Now, normally I go to spa-type places, and charge by card, and there's a tip line, and I tip 20%ish.

But this place was all "we do medical massage! It's for insurance!" etc etc, though they had a cash price (lower than the insurance one). And of course, I was paying with gift card. In that sort of instance, was I supposed to tip? I didn't, the one time I went and got a massage at a place using my doctor's prescription.

Uggh. Headache getting worse instead of better. Ibuprofen applied.

I usualy tip delivery guy 2-3 bucks. Maybe less if I am paying for delivery, maybe a little more if I making him deliver in miserable weather

Note that it is extremely rare that any delivery charge gets to the delivery person (who usually also pays for their own gas). After baristas, they were the group I most changed my mind about after reading Keep the Change.

In addition to getting really screwed pay-wise, it was clear that you get a real benefit from being a regular good tipper on delivery.

Again, according to Keep the Change, you should always tip on the full value of the service, regardless of Groupons, gift certificates, etc.

Massages fall into that same area as haircuts where I feel reluctant to tip for the same thing that I'm paying upfront for in the first place. I don't tip my mechanic; he's not providing an additional service beyond the one I'm buying.

meara, I've only been to one massage place that was so "medical" they didn't accept tips, and it was posted all over the place. Since then, I ask if I'm not sure, and the answer has always been, yeah, tip.