Ive, a tip............
......keep youre tips in a safe place.
About 3 weeks ago I started putting aside in an envelope on top of some paperwork . Boss decided she'd have a tidy up and threw out the envelope with 25 in it.
We moved a week ago out to the sticks ( well for us anyway ). I started to stash my tips in a little box . The boss was on annual leave and being as disorganised as usual had no cash for a bus to go Xmas shopping, turns the place upside down looking for my stash, finds it, subsequently spent .
Lesson learnt my tips now stay safely in my pocket !
Total will be down this year, not only because of that but a house move just before Xmas. I needed time off and I'm behind now but really don't care , its no longer about money but my sanity.