00:05Hey everyone welcome back to Refinery29's YouTube channel. If you're new here click on the little
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00:14the fun vlog video of the day. One thing that's really special about today's video is that I
00:19decided to shoot this in the format of the future and that's VR180. If you have VR goggles you can
00:25just click on the little playback bar onto the VR icon pop on your VR goggles and whoa I feel
00:33like
00:33I'm in my room all right I am. This really brings you in to my apartment and I'm so excited
00:39for this
00:39new format. The holidays are just around the corner three of the most important people in my life I've
00:44still not gotten gifts for and that is my fiance Michael my dad Jimmy and my twin sister Allie and
00:50I've been racking my brain thinking non-stop and I just can't seem to come up with anything and I
00:55actually thought this VR180 was a perfect opportunity to take you guys to the streets of New York. I'm
01:00going to go down to SoHo and do some shopping. I also just got a pop on my shoes I'm
01:05in my Christmas
01:06holiday socks so I'm going to go do that and then let's go to SoHo. We're in SoHo right now
01:13pretty much
01:13any one of these streets that you walk through you can find tons of shops so now I'm so excited
01:18to do
01:19some shopping. I can maybe get some furniture over there or some clothes over here. Pumpkins. Oh I'm
01:27going to go in here. How are you doing? Good thank you. Really cool stuff but mostly for skater dudes.
01:36I'm shopping for some gifts just shopping for some gifts and now I need hand sanitizer.
01:44I'm not being that successful at my shopping excursion. My spirits are still high.
01:53Hello. I'm here too. I don't know what this place is so I'm going in.
01:59All right so much cool stuff in there but just nothing that felt like the perfect gift for any
02:04of these people so I have to keep looking. Here we are but this is not a door so we
02:12can't go in.
02:13I'm getting a little worried guys but just nothing feels like the right stuff
02:16and you know how the holidays are you just feel like you have to give the perfect gift.
02:21All right it's getting late the sun is starting to set honestly I'm getting a little cold
02:26so I think I'm going to head home but I'm not giving up just yet I'm going to hop online
02:30the
02:30moment I get home and I'm going to get these gifts. See you uptown.
02:42This is why you can't ride the subway.
02:48What to get? What to get?
02:53Help! Somebody help! I need gifts!
02:58Oh that's not a bad idea. So I just texted my friend and she suggested I look on Groupon.
03:04So heading over to Groupon for Michael. I want to get him something tangible and the one thing
03:10I keep thinking of is health. I could do a cooking class. I could buy him a bonsai tree.
03:17That's an idea. This is a perfect one because we've talked about this exact
03:22gift and I really know he's going to get some good use out of this.
03:26I just bought it. All right on to my dad. I'm thinking a gift that's a little bit more
03:33relaxation heavy might be good for dad. I actually think the perfect thing for my dad
03:37would be to get him a gift that he can enjoy with my mom. Deals! Deals! Deals! Yeah!
03:43My dad's gift has been acquired. Now for my sister she's the tough one. I do want it to be
03:48more experiential rather than something tangible. Ideally I'd want it to be something that the two of
03:53us can do together. We could do a painting experience but we've done that before. We could
03:58take a singing class. I don't know if she'd like that. This is funny. This is good. I'm going to
04:04go
04:04buy it right now. She's going to be so excited. All right all three gifts have been purchased and
04:10honestly that was an amazing spot to shop. Groupon had some really great deals. Almost everything I
04:16shopped for I got at a way lower price than I would have gotten anywhere else. This is it. I
04:22can't
04:23wait to show you the gifts that I got for these three people. I officially gave Michael his holiday
04:29gift yesterday. Here's what happened. He was in the kitchen just brewing us two cups of coffee and
04:35then I told him, I have a holiday gift for you. I just remembered this seems like a really good
04:40time
04:40to give it to you. He was like, A holiday gift? A holiday gift. I'm going to give you a
04:44hint and then
04:45you'll find it. How's that? He starts looking around. He's opening cabinets. I don't know where it is.
04:49Is it food related? It's in the oven. Are you whispering something? No. And then
04:55I gave him a little hint. It's in the oven. It's in the oven? Oh my gosh. It's in the
05:04oven. Would
05:06you look at that? He put it on the counter and we opened it up and what was the gift?
05:11Dun dun dun dun.
05:14It's a Vitamix. It's a Vitamix. Woo! Maybe we should give this a rinse and pretty much as soon
05:20as we opened it, I told him, head to the fridge where I had stashed a bunch of fruit, kiwi
05:25and mango,
05:28pineapple and dates, antioxidants in a bowl. I think this is going to be great for us. It is. Coconut
05:34water. And now we build. Okay. Okay. Pineapple. A lot of berries. One banana. Do you guys like that
05:45shot? Comment below and let me know. Whoa. Whoa. How high am I? Pretty high. Also not getting all of
05:54it in.
05:55Okay. And then we turned it on. And let me tell you, that Vitamix is quite loud. It scared me
06:02a little
06:03bit actually. To us. To 2019. And the greatest gift ever. The year of our wedding. Love you. Cheers.
06:17You too. Mmm. Mmm. It's good. You should try some of that. It's really good. Honestly, I think it was
06:24a
06:24major successful holiday gift. Michael seemed very happy.
06:29Oh. Give me a second. My phone's ringing. Where's my phone?
06:38Got it. It's my dad. Hi, dad. Hi, Louie. How are you? How are you? I'm good. What's up? I
06:47was checking my
06:48emailing. I got a Groupon from you. Woo. You got a massage. Yeah. I'm so excited. You got it for
06:57me and
06:57mom. It's so great. Tell mom that I love her and I hope you guys enjoy the Groupon. Can't wait
07:02to show
07:02her my big surprise. Woo. Love you. Bye, missy. Mwah. And for the last gift for my best friend and
07:12my twin
07:12sister, Allie, the two of us had an incredible experience through Groupon last week and we did
07:21trampoline. We're at the Brooklyn Zoo gym where they have this incredible trampoline right next to this
07:26awesome foam pit and we're about to bounce. Are you excited for your gift? Can't wait. Let's bounce.
07:41Trampoline. Woo. That was so much fun, but we're going to head on upstairs because we just discovered
07:48that they have parkour. And this is Zep, our instructor. Hey guys, let's do some parkour. Get
07:56started. Woo. Parkour. Is this parkour? Parkour or free running is an extreme urban sport where you
08:04attempt to get from one point to the other in the fastest and most efficient way possible.
08:10Oh no. You all right? This is a gift.
08:17Parkour. So after all was said and done, my holiday gifting turned out to be a whopping success. I'm so
08:24grateful to Groupon for giving me the chance to find incredible gifts. Some that were tangible that
08:28were unwrapped right before my eyes and others that were just experiences that will never ever be
08:34forgotten. Thanks so much for watching. Don't forget to click here to subscribe. Click here to watch
08:39another video. I'm going to head out of my room. You can just stay and look around if you want.
08:43Bye.
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