Yesterday, on the afternoon show, we heard from a woman who was livid because her daughter was only paid $20 for babysitting her friend's 4-year-old for 5 hours Saturday night. Did the babysitter get ripped off?
During the holidays we find ourselves wanting to tip our service providers: the mailman, the babysitter, our hairdressers, and that's been customary practice for years. But, these are different (and for some, desperate) times. We can't as frivolously throw an extra twenty some one's way because we're feeling generous. That twenty bucks can buy a lot of groceries, or school lunches, or it's being s