00:00Wow, that's a good one. What's an appropriate good job? It would scare me off.
00:06Hi, I'm Charlie Penn.
00:07Hi, I'm Sharia Jackson. We're the Essence Love Squad.
00:11We're live right now in Times Square asking men what they think are the do's and don'ts for holiday gift giving.
00:17So ladies, get out your pen and paper and take notes for the special men in your life.
00:20Happy Holidays!
00:22As a man, I love a good bottle of cologne.
00:25I love a really nice bottle of cologne that attracts everybody around me.
00:32Like if she knows a place that you shop, like get you a gift certificate to that place.
00:37Or like maybe if she knows you wanted to go somewhere, like a vacation or something like that.
00:42Maybe a trip or something, a vacation?
00:44Dream gift. A trip somewhere would be really cool.
00:49An amazing gift would be something like being able to play football with like Tom Brady, which is impossible.
00:57So I would say either football tickets or like videos of football.
01:01An iPad.
01:02A do would definitely be something sweet, something that you can find or that you can't find anywhere.
01:10Something really personal. A don't would be something that would make you guess a size because you could guess wrong.
01:17Unless she has really good taste and she really knows what he likes, clothes. That could be bad.
01:22I don't want someone buying me clothes.
01:24Worst gift that a woman could give a man for the holidays is probably socks.
01:28One, because I have too many socks.
01:29And then after I get one pair of socks every Christmas, I get socks from my grandma.
01:33So I don't want any more socks.
01:34Some socks.
01:37You're not the first to say that.
01:39Really?
01:39No.
01:41The biggest don't would be kitchen appliances.
01:44An inappropriate gift that would scare me off would be cooking lessons.
01:47Why is that?
01:48Because, I don't know, it just seemed weird.
01:50Like you don't really know what the future brings, so to give somebody like cooking lessons, what does that say?
01:54I wouldn't read into that too much.
01:56I've heard of like love contracts.
01:57I don't know if people would still do that.
01:58I've heard of somebody, my friend broke up with his girlfriend because she made up a love contract.
02:03She gave it to him for Christmas and he was, it's a deal breaker.
02:06So if there's anybody out there making love contracts, don't make love.
02:09It's a really inappropriate gift that would scare me off.
02:12Don't do underwear.
02:13Don't do underwear.
02:15Because sometimes women will still, you know, a guy likes a certain kind of underwear.
02:20We might be bossy guys.
02:22Well, a lot of times we're not brief guys, but don't do the underwear unless you got, you know, unless you come in front of that with us first.
02:29Like underwear, a sex toy.
02:32A sex toy, yeah, no sex toys.
02:34Nothing sex related really, like no.
02:37See, something like a kinky sex toy.
02:41A deal breaker.
02:43Handcuffs.
02:44Wow.
02:45I've seen love dice too, where you like tickle, kiss.
02:48It's weird.
02:49Don't do things where maybe his own specific taste is sort of important to the decision.
02:54And maybe, you know, so if you get it wrong, it's not so great.
02:58Because, you know, we don't want to disappoint him.
03:00And it's just awkward when, you know, you have a present and you don't really want it.
03:04Nah, you can never spend enough.
03:06Yeah, you can never spend enough.
03:07I'm clear on that.
03:08Yeah, if you want to shower with gifts, if you'd like.
03:11What's the best gift a woman has ever given you?
03:13Oh, a nice watch.
03:15A very nice watch.
03:17Yeah, what's up?
03:18Because she wanted you to be on time.
03:20You know, maybe.
03:22A kiss.
03:24I feel like I have everything I want.
03:27I mean, I'm married now.
03:28My wife is awesome.
03:29I actually don't want anything.
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