PHILADELPHIA — Ah, the holiday season. It arrives each winter, bringing feelings of gratitude, merriment, generosity — and financial anxiety.
The cost of gifts and gatherings isn't the only subject that weighs on people's minds this time of year. Holiday tipping can be stressful, too, with individuals, couples, and families deciding which of their regular service people deserve an extra gratuity, as well as how much they should give and in what from.
Etiquette experts across the Philadelphia region and the country are accustomed to getting tons of tipping questions every December. But this year, several experts said, the topic has been especially hot. Some people have limited their budgets after a year of record inflation, job loss in some industries, and other changes to personal finances more than two years into the pandemic.
