Ok I do know all about tipping your servers/waitstaff while dining out. My question is what to tip everyone else: hair dresser, lawn maintnence, nails/feet salon, massage, car valet(sp), ect not sure if I missed one. I feel akward when I pay and tip "am I leaving enough, was that to much (might think I'm loaded when I am not lol), not enough might think I'm cheap" 

I usually tip a standard 20% to my hairdresser, nail salon, and the guy who details my car. I do the same at restaurants as well, all of this assuming the service has been worthy of that. 

Look I do 15% on everything. UNLESS ITS SUPERB. Then its 20%.
That gos for every type of service to which involve tipping ...that I use. 

If you actually google it, it will tell you by area what people who receive tips are required to claim as tips, if they don't claim that much then they end up having to get compensated for the difference and then the boss assumes their performance is terrible. This of course is for waitresses. I would tip same percent for all the others. (I used to be a waitress) In the area I lived in in Missouri tipping was 10%, if we didn't get at least that, our performance was reviewed etc. But it does vary by region. 

Ok thanks I normally do 10-20 depending on service. I just got a rude look the last 15% tip I left at a nail salon. 

I just got a rude look the last 15% tip I left at a nail salon.

I would probably find a new place then that was uncalled for, sorry they did that to you. 

Yes I am def going to. It was just odd. I felt terrible when I left as if I had done something wrong but I'm glad to know I have been tipping ok 

Hmmmm..... Did this happen Sunday? I left 15% too. Never going back there again. Lmao. 

Yeah lol she gave us a nasty look on our way out lol. I was thinking Wtf 

Didn't pay any attention. They weren't that friendly. What did she expect? Lol. 

I'd be finding a new nail place! This is one of those questions that always flits through my mind when I am in a position to tip someone other than in a restaurant & always forget to look up. Turns out, I have been overtipping.

There's always the accidental way-too-generous tip. My fav nail salon got a $60 tip by mistake for a pedi. I almost didn't want to go back, hoping that wouldn't be the new expectation. Smacking my forehead on that one! 

I usually do 15-20 percent. I don't get out a calculator to figure it to the penny, but less than 15 is a slap in my opinion, and more than 20 is for fantastic service. So "decent or good" gets anywhere from 15-20 

Wow Miss Priss that sucks. I would have felt the same way. Well hey on the plus side they should give you amazing service next time. Normally Nada and I go somewhere different but they were closed at the time :( 

I was judt hoping this place would be a good back up plan never going back 

We had a hail and farewell last week that was on the restaurants books but they had it open on the wrong day and hadnt set up for it. It was like 65 people, and we literally had one server who was working his butt off, with very little help because they were busy in the main room. He did such a great job so we tipped around 25% because of how hard he had to work and was able to still give good service with so many people. 

Wow, that's alot of people to be winging it by himself! It's sounds like he really deserved it. And if that came with the automatic 15% large group gratuity, he probally felt appreciated. I love tipping when someone is great like that! 

No they didnt do that automatic thing, which surprised me a lot honestly. It was at a mexican food place and every time he brought out plates, he had like 6 going up each arm, he was amazing! 

Oh gotcha. Well, 25% for that many people couldn't have been shabby either :) Plus, if that restaurant is smart, they will know he's a gem & pay him accordingly!

Haha, when I 1st saw this post, I read Q-tipping. Dyslexic much? 

Selective reading is all lmbo 

BRITT
LMBO
Is laugh my balls off. Right? Just curious. 

maybe it's boobs lol 

Ok i have to speak up because it looks like no one mentioned the commissary baggers. This is my biggest peeve. Baggers on post only get paid by tips. So every one shopping should come prepared to tip unless you are using a self checkout stand. I generally tip $3 for one cart, $5 if we did a big shop or have bulky things that require a 2nd bagger cart. If the person was friendly or i find they are a student saving for college i tip more.

Here is why this is my peeve. My 17yo works on the weekend on main post and he puts in 12 hours each day and he has to pay a fee of $6 each day he works to the commissary. Some days he comes home after 12 hours with maybe $30, ummm bullcrap. People shouldn't stiff these kids. They work really hard for sweatshop pay. The weekend before last he made $50 for 2 12 hour shifts, that was after he paid $12 for the right to work averaging out to about $2 an hour, now i know none of us would like that. He says alot of the time people don't even bother to tip, sometimes they give a pocket of change which is usually about 50cents. Everyone knows the baggers only get tips and no pay from the commissary, its posted all around the store, so everyone that shops there should come ready to tip because these kids and adults are working to make a living or pay for college. I wish the commissary would just impose a minimum fee for bagging so these kids wouldnt get stiffed. Rant off. 

Look I shop at trader Joe's for 80% of my groceries.
BUT FOR THOSE THAT SHOP AT THE COMMISSARY TIP YOUR BAGGERS.
OR SHOP AT SAFEWAY. 

Hey not everyone knows that... I do now, but the first few times I shopped at the commissary (never shopped there before I got married, and then rarely.) I felt really bad once I figured it out.

And now Safeway?? I didn't know I was supposed to tip them, either. I feel like a jerk again. 

Shamwow, I think alot of people are just ignorant as to what is the right tip. Also, when I first started using the commissary, I did not know if the bagger & the person who takes out your cart share the same pot or each need to be tipped separately. Sometimes they have buckets sitting out & sometimes they don't. Sometimes the one who bags takes your stuff out to your car too or is switching off with someone else. I usually choose to pull out money above my grocery tab & ask for ones to divvy among the bagger & the cart unloader. I saw a post on here once about what to tip the cart walkers & people were talking $10-$20. That would be a serious hit on my grocery budget for as much as I'm in there, so what is the right $$? 

REALLY GUYS REALLY????
When my hubby was A newbie he was told at a briefing. Its no secret.
So I'm confuzzeld how people dont know. I mean this with humbleness . 

Ok i have to speak up because it looks like no one mentioned the commissary baggers. This is my biggest peeve. Baggers on post only get paid by tips. So every one shopping should come prepared to tip unless you are using a self checkout stand. I generally tip $3 for one cart, $5 if we did a big shop or have bulky things that require a 2nd bagger cart. If the person was friendly or i find they are a student saving for college i tip more.

I agree with you on this one for sure, now with them, I always give 5 since I pretty much always have the same amount every two weeks. I swear some of them truly act surprised and grateful and I find it sad they act surprised. I grew up in the military so I've always known about the tipping of baggers even before they put signs up everywhere. 

Lmbo= Laugh My Butt Off I just tend to like it better than Lmao=Laugh My A** Off. but still I use both 

BRITT
I SEE. 

As far as baggers go my normal large trips I usually put 4-5 in the bucket thing most have there then an extra 5-6 for the one who helps take my stuff out. If we get a sall load we take it out on our own and leave 3-4 depending on how much we spend.