Switching topics. I am traveling again next week ( family occasion) and will be staying in ( two different) hotels. I went to my bank yesterday and got some small bills to use for tipping the hotel housekeeping staff.
My question is: is there another way to do this? These people work hard and I want to give them extra, but honestly I rarely carry cash anymore.
I have never liked fish (even the ones that people say you will like even if you don’t like fish). Then a number of years ago my doctor recommended fish oil - and I discovered that I was allergic to it. Over several weeks, I develop a rash. The same is true of Lovaza, the prescription omega 3 pill. So I figured my body knew all along and steered me away from fish.
I do like some fish preparations and on occasion, a restaurant has been able to substitute chicken.
I have the same problem. Rarely do I have cash, I do get cash before I travel and I rarely use it. The problem is if you use the ATM you end up with a bunch of 20’s. I hoard my random ones and fives for travel. I can’t think of another way to tip.
I did use the ATM, then took the twenties inside and had the teller give me fives for them.
My money is at Chase. When I take cash out of the ATM, I get a choice of bills. $100=4 $20s and 4 $5s usually takes care of tips which I always give in cash, putting meals on a card.
My banks ATM only dispenses cash in twenties. But my issue is other options for tipping.
Some hotel chains have a QR code in each room with a link to tip the housekeeper. I’ve never used these so no experience with how that works. Cash is still king when it comes to hotel tipping.
I’ve stayed at a couple of hotels where they had a small card with the housekeeper’s name and a Venmo link, but that’s quite uncommon, and I haven’t used it.
I always leave a cash tip, calculated at about $5 per night, so I don’t need singles.
We stayed in a hotel in California that was cashless. You just added the tip for the cleaning staff to your bill at the end of your stay
I can’t help but think of the Eagles song…
I would never Venmo someone I didn’t know/
Of course one has to verify that a code/link is legitimate. In that case, the link (not a Venmo) went through the hotel domain so chances were high it was legit. Still, cash rules.
Did anyone celebrate May Day when they were young - or now? I don’t mean a parade with tanks. But when I was maybe four years old - seven decades ago - I vaguely remember running around the neighborhood with paper flower baskets. We’d hang it on the doorknob, knock, and run off. I think we alternated back and front doors. I can’t remember doing it more than one year. We lived in Boulder at the time but my mom grew up in northern New Jersey and I assume it was her idea.
Looks like it wasn’t a fake memory!
In HI, we often had May Day programs where the students sand and/or danced for the school. I believe this still occurs in our state.
We did this. In our neighborhood you would pick whatever flowers from whatever spring bushes/trees were in bloom (like lilacs) and ring the doorbell, leave the flowers and run.
In my kids Catholic school they did a May Day pole dance? (Not that, get your mind out of the gutter!) several girls around a pole with ribbons…
I know H used to do it with his kids at school - the May pole, but I don’t recall hearing him talk about it for years. Then again, I never really would ask what he did with the kids.
In Catholic school in the 70s, we celebrated something like that, but it also had something to do with Mary. I remember I was so proud I was Mary and got to wear a crown of flowers lol
We made May baskets at school ( used construction paper). I remember filling them with the lilacs that were always blooming on May 1st.
My elementary school did the May pole. We also made tissue paper flowers. Don’t recall any flowers delivered to neighbors. My kids didn’t do anything for May Day in school.
My mother talked about dancing around the may pole in 1920-35 Europe, at least until Hitler.
No one beats Oxford for their May Morning celebration!
