Quick rant today: I am over the Elf on the shelf. The first year, I had some fun with it. An example is this photo ..
The entire set up took a bit. I love the way it came out. This year, however, we’re both tired. The other night Andrew was at Nana’s. We forgot to move the elf…. So we said the elf didn’t move because he wasn’t home. Then last night, Sam literally threw it in a Christmas stocking….
I give kudos to the people who have the time and patience to create and set up these elaborate scenarios. There are a few Facebook pages with ideas that you can steal, but sometimes I feel like it is there for folks to show off.
I am not about to spend an hour creating a mural of the Grinch made out of Post-it notes. I am also not going to shower my living room in confetti. I don’t want to spend $10-20 on outfits for the thing either.
Do you want to know what the most common question asked on those elf Facebook pages is? “Can someone please give me quick and easy elf ideas?”. Amen! Give me an idea I can stretch out over three or four days even!
A friend of mine sent me a link to someone’s Instagram page. Every day there is some crazy set up they do with their elves. Yes, elves! They have more than one! I can’t deal with just one!
ln one photo, they have the elves dressed as the characters from the Wizard of Oz! In another they are a baseball team. Good Lord…..
The holidays are stressful enough. Why put more pressure on yourself to do this?
Rant over.
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 
Lol I feel this….our Elf had quite the hiatus once my youngest daughter got too old for it, I was soooo relieved. But now with Sid in our lives, he’s made a return, yeesh. Thankfully my 17 year old is all about it so she does most of the work with it.
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I guess everyone chooses to celebrate in their own way, but not sure I’d be good at that )
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Dodged that bullet, my daughters were grown before the dreaded Elf mania.
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It does seem like a fad, now kind of passe. I never got one but I did like the idea a few years ago and was amused by the photos I’d see on social media. Now it seems a bit of a yawn, and then again I daresay social media has gotten that way too. I miss bits and pieces of it but really haven’t been on FB nor the site formerly known as Twitter for some months now .
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It sounds so dang complicated….yea I’m glad this wasn’t around when Bailey was a kid lol.
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I’m so glad there was no Elf on the Shelf when my kids were young.
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