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Christmas Gifts... Need advice
Okay girls! I am wondering how much you spend on your in home daycare providers for Christmas. Also, do you gift to the mail man/trashman, etc?
Thanks in advance!
Re: Christmas Gifts... Need advice
Daycare.. maybe like $50 on the main lady and $15 for her two helpers.
The trash man and mail man can suck it.
This is a debate on this board every year. For daycare I do a gift or GC = one week of daycare.
I do nothing for the trash man & mail man.
I know that I have seen posts in the past about teachers and aids, but I didn't have a kid in school so I didn't pay attention....now I need to know what to get my kid's teacher and aid.
We're in a center, and have 4 teachers. We are thinking the two main teachers $20 GC to Starbucks (they both love coffee), and then the other two probably $10 to Target.
Jamie - for teachers, GC to a teacher store or Target. :-) For the aides, Target.
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We've always gotten gifts for teachers. Sometimes I make fancy chocolates, breads/muffins, etc., sometimes I buy things. Around $20 apiece (ugh this is going to suck this year, Jack has 7 teachers & Benny has 3).
Trash man & mail man?! no. This has honestly never occurred to me. Not that I am not thankful for their work, but no, I would not get them a Christmas gift.
DS has 3 main teachers in his current room. I plan to get them Target GCs b/c I'm not sure if they are coffee drinkers (otherwise I would get them Starbucks or Scooters). I also plan to do something for the front office staff (Director and Assistant Directors), but I'm not sure what yet. There are several part-time people (high school age) that seem to float from room to room, and are in DS' room periodically, but I don't think I'm getting anything for them.
hskrmommy -you have more experience at our place - what do you think?
I must be a cheap a$$, I couldn't fathom spending a whole week's worth of daycare on a gift, I can barely afford gifts for my own family!
I personally think that is a lot to give, but I dont' have much to give to begin with!
We give daycare provider cash for one weeks worth of daycare. This year, ouch, that's gonna hurt with having 2 in daycare!
Preschool teachers (2) we give a $15 Scooters card (the usually have a sale where you buy $25 worth of GC and get $5 free) and something cute that Elsie's made for under $5. We do the same for her two dance teachers.
We do not give anything to the mail man or garbage people. We don't get our mail all the time and half the time our trash cans are all over. I don't even see these people either, so how would I give a gift to them. Maybe if I saw them on a regular basis.. .. ..
We do put a small gift on our last newspaper bill of the year.
Here you go Amy!
Gift cards.
Usually to office stores, book stores or Target. I usually just turn around and spend them on my classroom anyways.
Nice mugs are okay (at least for me). We get tons of knick nacks.
Granted I teach middle school. Sometime the best gifts are ones that you know they are listening to you and are unexpected. Last year I got a book that I had been searching for ages for then un-named Baby Boy and the kid found it at Walmart on a lark.
I saw on Pinterest:
Like a diaper cake but with boxes of crayons, glue bottles, glue sticks, etc with the top being a box of kleenex