Presents for Hairdressers?

My hairdresser comes to the house and she gets a tip each visit, every 6/7 weeks. At Christmas she gets a £20 tip but no gift, she probably prefers the cash.
I give the window cleaner a tip because he has cleaned my windows since the week we moved into this house, 46 years.

TillyWhiz I was just going to post something almost identical. I give my hairdresser a tip every time too, and always our postie, who often goes out of our way for us.
I would give to the binmen, but I never see them as we have a communal bin system.
I also give €10 to the staff at the agricoop where we buy our pet and poultry food, they're so helpful and do all the heavy carrying.
And I sometimes send a thankyou Xmas card to our family doctors business. They're not paid in he same way as in the NHS.

Living in an out of the way place, I tip the ones who come to me i.e. the postman, the refuse collectors and the window cleaner. I give my hairdresser a tip each time so would not give extra at Christmas ( and my 6 weekly cut and blowdry is £32 with a latte).

I'm not bitter Janea - just flabbergasted!

And I did offer to go and do Norah's hair for her (she just might not tip me afterwards ).

Two shampoos so unnecessary in my world, just wasteful of both shampoo and water.
Baggs the hairdressers here only shampoo once - so cutting down on costs but they are still charging the same; well more in fact.

I don't buy any presents and don't give any tips.. The whole procedure is out of date. Why the hairdresser but not a regular shop assistant for instance? Don't tell me hairdressers or waitresses aren't well paid, they should be paid properly like anyone else. It's just tradition and is meaningless nowadays.

My hairdresser owns the salon. So I don't tip him. I give the girl who shampoos me a £1 and the girl who does the colour a couple of pounds. The cost for a cut blow and colour is £62. I go every eight weeks. My hairdresser owns two houses. Plus has other businesses so I don't think he needs tips. I have been going to him for over forty years though. He now only works two days a week.

Adding my tuppenceworth... I cut my own hair using MrB's beard trimmer. Would that I could afford what some of you pay. Although, actually, I might still cut my hair myself because I hate all the pongs in hair salons and it all takes so long! I also hate all the excessive washing. Two shampoos so unnecessary in my world, just wasteful of both shampoo and water.

I did go to a hairdresser to have my hair cut when it was very long and I broke my arm because I couldn't even put it in a pony tail, never mind my usual twist. The matte putty the lovely girl persuaded me (gently) would be useful (it has been, for controlling my scraggy mop) cost more than the cut and the cut wasn't cheap. Well... it was by some standards on this thread.

Anyroad, basically I don't care enough to spend much money on my hair. I have liked it as it was and cheap to keep all my life. Currently balding thinning so will probably wear a buff or a hat for most of my very old age, if I have one.

Bluebelle
Very bad form to say to someone
You must be rolling in it
You must be very well off
How much money you have is relative. Have you considered that there might be people you know who think that £21 is a lot of money to spend on a cut & blow dry?
As Norah seems to be a very generous person I would imagine that she gives a lot to charity as well.

Have never given a hairdresser anything for Xmas . You could end up giving gifts to everyone . Like the old days when the postman, milkman, paper boy and dustmen got "Xmas boxes" .

I used to know the driver of a refuse lorry (when I worked in a pub years ago) and he received over three hundred pounds in tips at Christmas after they had been shared out between the men!

I own a hairdressing Salon, Christmas gifts range from money £10 to £60, wine, chocolates champagne liquers etc and then sometimes personal gifts such as perfume aftershave and bath goodies, all are very gratefully received, if we have lots of chocolates we usually open them and offer them round to clients whle they are having their hair done, which is rather christmassy, also we usually give our customers mulled wine and mince pies or biscuits while they are having their hair done at Christmas, it's all very jolly!

Janeainsworth my hairdresser owns her own salon has people working for her and is always full and no I m not exploiting her in any way what a strange thing to say
You live in a different world to me if you can spend £90 every 6 weeks good for you we re on different planets
Of course it’s none of my budiness what Norah or you pay I didn’t ask either of you but you both volunteered the information so if people then make comments it’s not to be unexpected is it.
I m genuinely shocked at the price you all pay but of course if you live in an expensive area wages will be high too I presume
I d be very interested to hear from all those giving your hairdresser a generous tip or present what tip or present you give your doctor nurse bus driver shop assistant or any other public servant and if not why not ?
Who decided that waiters, hairdressers, taxi drivers etc get tips but train / bus drivers, your mental health nurse, the hospital cleaner your optician your dentist the canteen cook don’t

I have given my Hairdresser a humerous calendar - one of the long ones - for several years. It is inexpensive and she looks forward to having it. I did this after seeing the chocolates they received which truly, would have filled a shop.

Sorry hd

I always buy something for my had, she is a friend too.

My mobile hairdresser charges reasonable prices and styles really well, I give her cash in a Christmas card.

This year I have changed my hairdresser thank goodness, as the prices round here are quite high. I was paying £55 for a cut and blow, plus £5 tip.
Now I go slightly farther afield to a family friend, who charges me £38 and won't take a tip as she is a part owner of the salon. The bonus being also that she is a much better hairdresser than the partially trained young women who work(?) in the upmarket salons locally.
I used to give chocolates or a larger tip at Christmas when I knew the hairdresser quite well.

I have the same view as TANITH....I have never given a christmas present to my hairdresser, she get's a gift of a tip from me every six weeks.. Its her job and a tip is way of saying thank you. Enough.

My hairdresser is the only person that can make me feel good about myself (as a rather overweight, mid fifties woman!). I come out of the salon each week with a spring in my step. I give her a bottle of her favourite tipple and a small foodie present from my pre Christmas shopping day to France! Plus a double tip at Christmas.
I also get a small gift for the junior who gives me a lovely massage as she washes my hair.

always give her a decent tip and nothing extra at christmas,I tip the milk boy ,well he's delivering milk in the middle of the night in the cold...and the paper girl .They generally get £10 at Christmas and Fair Friday ...a local holiday and its traditional to tip well then .They still get a tip everyweek as well though.

Stop beating Nora up- some of us live in areas where we couldn't find a hairdresser for £20 or £30.

I double her (hairdresser) usual tip so that s £10 she has saved my sanity with my new hairdo this year. I don't tip anyone else.

Don't they get paid? I tip the trainees but no Christmas present

Only tip Hairdresser at Christmas usually £10.

Most of my spends at Christmas go on hubby my sons their wives and my grandchildren.