Besides cash, whats some of your better tips?

[Mikey P]

Nice, very appreciative home owner let me pick a few out of hubby's cellar yesterday..

 

[Zee]

Here we go....

The list of things that I was offered contains stuff I will not even write down..and a lot of usual things like dogs, cats, bicycle, old computer, sodas, real french wine, all kinds of services for my business or home.
Things I take: cash
I don't like tips other then cash, it makes me feel like I owe them something more. The cash I just slip it in my pocket and we forget about it....

Zee

 

[Nate The Great]

Daughters, Neices, Grand daughters. I just blush. Then I get the comments "If I were only 20-40 years younger, you'd have your hands full" then the wink.

 

[SMRBAP]

Two bottles of Gentleman Jack was the best other than cash, the worst was a bag of microwave popcorn.

 

[Brian L]

A vineyard a few miles from my house always tips me with a couple bottles of wine. All their wines are $30 a bottle.


My favorites are the fruits and vegetables that are growing in the customer's orchards and fields. I enjoy driving away with a grocery bag full. Persimmons are my favorites.

 

[Jim Nazarian]

4 front row Laker tickets. :mrgreen:

 

[Chris A]

A Beeje.

 

[jstucky]

shot of jack and a beer on a friday afternoon..


fruits and veggies home grown...

a guy blew pottery and gave me a cool black/gold glazed vase



stuff left behind in rentals...Jesus poster...ha...

thats all i can think of...

 

[Kevin. McCreary]

Mostly sporting event tickets.
A pro basketball player new shoes.
A week at a time share in an expensive resort town on lake Michigan.
A Set of custom golf clubs.
A 12 hour limo ride.
Airplane ride.

 

[-JB-]

Recently had a lady give me a prayer rug that I had just brought back after cleaning. Said she really didn't have room for it and dint want her dog damaging it any worse, so wanted to give it to me, as she felt I would appreciate it.
Told her I felt funny taking it as she just paid me to clean it, her reply was classic, "well I wouldn't have wanted to give you a dirty rug now would I?"

It now hangs over my bed on the wall pointing straight up. :mrgreen:

Well ruggies can I retire off this 'er what, give me yore best approximated value based on what you can see here, and yes its worse than it looks, you can actually see right through it where the original owner/user folded it and placed his head multiple times a day.

Kinda ratty, but I like the BEAUSAGE of it.

 

[Out of Character - 0]

Sort of a tip

A $2000 Lorinzer watch, a hand carved wooden purse type thing that is very old, an antique chess folding chess board case, and a few vases.

The lady and her husband were moving from a 10,000sf mansion to a brothers guest house. They offered me so much more but I couldn't take anything else. The tech I had working with me got suits and shoes, so many we could barely close the doors on the van. If we didn't have a tm we could have really made out.

 

[bob vawter]

Once there was this little old black lady wit REAL THICK glasses rolling out cookie dough on her counter.......i'm SURE she couldn't see the hundreds of little red piss ants that she was rolling into the cookies........

yes i took some wit me...so's not to hurt her feelings...but i threw them away as i rounded the corner.......

THANKS MAMM!

 

[Doug Cox]

2 things. Russian Vodka and a water color painting. Vodka didn't last long.

 

[Walt]

The guy who owns the Dairy Queen gave me a DQ coffee mug and a hundred bucks cash.

An antique turtle lamp

Cookies (she won a blue ribbon at the fair)

Homemade beer

Bottles of wine - no idea if there "good" bottles of wine. (must be classy, they have a cork )

Ham sandwiches

 

[Mikey P]

Damn JB, that is killer.


Send that thing my way when the next GF tells to its her or that ugly ass moth trap.

 

[tracywalker]

a lady moved into a house I was cleaning and wanted a brand new fridge. She gave me the like new fridge that was in the house! I get offers for old couchs and chairs all the time. I do have a fantastic client who gives me a bottle of either rum or mezcal every time I clean!

 

[Warren Wallace]

200,.00 tip,

 

[Charlie Lyman]

frozen brown trout caught in the boise river, complete with freezer burn. couldn't wait to get home and throw it in the trash.

 

[B&BGaryC]

When I was waiting tables at Denny's I got some interesting tips.

A 20 inch computer monitor
A box of japanese comics


And....


an Audi 5000

 

[Dolly Llama]

Most recent was a home made apple pie.

cookies brownies/baked goods and veggies from gardens are pretty common.

I was offered a slate top pool table once

One older fellow gave me appx 20 board ft of black walnut (black walnut goes for $15 a bf )
Told me to come by anytime and get more.
He probably had $50,000 worth of walnut stored in an old dilapidated mobile home he used as an out building

I've been offered sexual favors a couple times.
and yes, I graciously declined.
(and one of those birds was a fo-reel hottie) I wonder if her husband knew she was a hussy.... :roll:


..L.T.A.

 

[bob vawter]

I've been offered sexual favors a couple times.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[Steve in Omaha]

Customer gave me this vase this spring

 

[The Preacher]

half a sack of weed and some rollin papers!!!! it wasn't the kriptonite i used to smoke, but it made me think MArdy was some what funny in his DAP's!!!

just got $25 for getting some dog crap out of a new white carpet at 6;30pm last week. customer came home and poochy had left a few "presents" in the exercise room!!!

 

[Jimbo]

I had these older, really nice people, who every time I cleaned, gave me 10 or 12 dollars...and told me to make sure I had a good lunch.


Went on for about ten years...then one time I noticed a calendar from IGT referencing 'Native American Gaming'...I asked the guy if he liked to go to Indian Casinos...he was in his early 80's at the time...has a Hispanic surname...so it really surprised me when he told me that he was a member of a 29 member tribe...

That Owned a Casino!

All his grandkids were going through college and becoming lawyers...and they live modestly. But the old guy had always been a hard worker...and valued someone that worked hard...


I think I've gotten cooler tips...(2 cases of hand picked wines from a wine distributor)...but none more meaningful than old Moxie and his 10 or 12 dollars!

 

[Willy P]

I've been offered sexual favors a couple times.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[XTREME1]

$150 gift certificate here
www.blacktiespa.com
and a bunch of this http://www.hotsauceworld.com/hsw9132bc.html

 

[-JB-]

Got a bottle a homemade "elderberry" wine bout 4 years ago, I'm letting it age. :roll:

 

[Blue Monarch]

Case of various beers.

The same guy made me one hell of a sandwich on another day.

 

[Mikey P]

[quote="bob vawter":1sttew0v]I've been offered sexual favors a couple times.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

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you're the funniest damn porty hack on this board, I'll grant you that.

 

[Ron Lippold]

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