TIPPING OUR HOUSEKEEPER $500 (quarantined in Singapore)

so this is just a little way for us to share our blessing with somebody else where can Nate we've been traveling the world full-time for the last four years and like most people in the world this pandemic has turned our lives upside down before we began our voluntary self-isolation here in Singapore we were in the Philippines on a remote island off the coast of Corona and that's when we heard that the capital city was going on lockdown in 48 hours which meant that if we didn't make it back to Manila as soon as possible there was a chance we wouldn't be able to connect to our international flight and we could have been trapped in the Philippines indefinitely in our last video we shared the story of barely making it out of the Philippines it is seriously a miracle thankfully we made it to this hotel room in Singapore and it's been our home for the last 15 days we made it into the country just two days before the government issued a mandatory stay at home notice for all travelers entering the country so even though the rules didn't apply to us since we made it in the country before they went into effect we decided to self isolate anyways just in case we contracted something while we were traveling so for the last two weeks we have been living in this hotel room spending all day on our computers and only going out to exercise and get food and yes I have borne this road every single day and while we've been out we have been really careful about practicing social distancing because it's actually the law here in Singapore and if you break it there are serious fines or even jail time this is probably the longest we've ever spent in the same hotel and we've developed a little bit of a relationship with our housekeepers they pretty much just laugh every day when they realize that we're still here if you think about it they have a really tough job like can you imagine going into strangers bedrooms every single day having no idea where they've been or if they even care about their health we've been not getting our room clean because we feel like that's actually somehow cleaner maybe that's why they like us because we I he's telling we just want more coffee it's so given the current situation we came up with an idea to bring a little joy to their day and this idea was inspired by mr. beast who we discovered during all this extra time we've been spending on YouTube during self-isolation and if you've never seen his channel before he pretty much uses it to give away gobs of money it's nuts last one of you to take your hand off this million dollar stack of cash keeps it so I just went to the ATM pulled out the equivalent of five hundred US dollars and we're gonna leave it as a tip for our housekeeper it's not gonna be a million dollars but it will be the biggest tip we've ever get [Music] okay so this is the setup the money is here on the table we've got Kara's phone casually leaned against the window it's subtle I know got a GoPro set up over here sneaky camera recording going on on the computer and just to make sure we capture every angle we have the zoom lens set up here I feel like I'm setting up some kind of very non sneaky spy mission and now we're gonna turn on the cleaner room button and we'll see what happens I'm like really nervous right oh we're just gonna hide by the elevators you know just an awkward and it ain't Time Matters [Music] shall we go in they always you gave me too much it's for you I think she's calling me a supervisor to see if it's okay it's a lot more challenging to give somebody money when I brought it with me hello yes that's correct all right we just we would like to give it to her of course thank you you too bye it was okay I wish I could give you a hug I'd like him to wash my hands the whole social distancing thing went out the window there in that little interaction but okay I mean we literally had to talk on the phone to her boss before she would take it and even then she still couldn't believe it when the boss called she tried to tell me that it was too much money to give somebody I told her that she could share with the other staff if she wanted to and that seemed to make it okay that was really fun this is one of the most fun videos we've ever made I feel like I held it together here tell all the dears I was great I mean she is one of the people that's on the front lines providing an essential service that has to be done during this challenging time so it was really fun to get to do something special I think a major motivation behind us wanting to do this is that we found ourselves in a place with YouTube that's better than we could have ever imagined and so this is just a little way for us to share our blessing with somebody else it's like it was from all of us we can't have built this channel without y'all so yeah in a way we we all contribute it all the love that y'all give them it definitely doesn't happen a lot is reaching a hundred country all over again [Music] I wish we were hiding in the closet [Music] [Music]

Channel: Kara and Nate

Views: 889,967

Rating: 4.9111242 out of 5

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Id: 39Z--drdtLU

Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Sat May 02 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/miffymango]

I love this video, it’s so beautiful

[u/ArnoldLayne1967]

Thou shall always advertise and publicize your tips to lesser fortunate service employees in Asian countries and make an elaborate video about it showing how generous you are but more importantly how much ad revenue you can generate from the publicity video.

• God to Moses in the Ten Commandments for YouTubers.

[u/Sharrem23]

Why