To think this is fucking ridiculous! (Photos)

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Surely the creator of this needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and wonder where it all went wrong!

You miserable bunch! So what if it's a lot of paper, if the person can afford it, where's the harm?

So, so, SO wasteful. I hate the elf on the shelf crap at the best of time but most of the "pranks" are harmless and involve minimal "stuff" to put together. Using acres of wrapping paper which will be ripped up and stuffed in the bin is massively wasteful and ridiculously consumer-ist. And of course it's been done so the creator can get maximum social media likes.

Very distasteful.

A waste of paper and resources.
No wonder this planet is on its knees with people generating waste like this.

Do the people saying this just not use wrapping paper at all?

Why is it more wasteful to wrap a cushion than, say, a necklace in a box?

I thought it was great until It transpired it was elf in the shelf nonsense.

If I was going to go to that much effort I'm taking the credit not a bloody elf.

Why is it more wasteful to wrap a cushion than, say, a necklace in a box? confused

Did you look at the pictures?? You can't compare the two - wrapping presents, and wrapping a WHOLE FUCKING ROOM including papering the walls and wrapping the sofa. Acres and acres of paper compared with the few rolls that most of us use.

By the sheer volume involved. I also hate it when people wrap cars. I'd do a head tilt if any of my friends did this.

Ridiculous waste of paper imo.

So the point of the elf on the shelf is to be naughty, but tell Santa if the kids are?

Dear God . . . there is no hope

So the point of the elf on the shelf is to be naughty, but tell Santa if the kids are?

No, the point of Elf on the Shelf is to make money for the two women who created the "tradition", to help parents boast on social media about how fun and wacky they are, and to let them post hashtags like #makingmemories and #bestcrimboeva

Acres and acres of paper compared with the few rolls that most of us use.

So it's not the waste, it's that it's more waste than average?

Wrapping paper is inherently wasteful. It all gets torn and binned.

Maybe it's recycled paper. Wonder if that would make it all right.

So funny. My daughter is 12 now but looks back on the elf on the shelf with so much love. It made her enjoy Christmas much more. I wish I had thought of wrapping up the tree.

It's like modern art. Lol. I like it.

I think it's funny - you miserable lot.

I laughed out loud! Brilliant!

To be honest, if you're driving a car over tax band A/B, you're probably doing more damage in one run than the waste of paper will have done here.

A mum at school does loads of "crazy" stuff with elf on the shelf ..... doesn't seem to see that and any connection to her child thinking it's OK to do things at school '"as a joke" (empty all the pens/ pencils onto the carpet at break time, pull all coats and bsgs off pegs, hide the lunchbox trolley to name a few). Yeah. Really funny family.

this stuff is fun but doesn't need to be shared with the world

if it's a bit of a laugh for the kids and the family then thats okay, the moment they put it on facebook is the moment they show themselves up

At first i thought it was protective plastic covering for a major golden showers party. Wtf..

You dirty minded Lemon!

Am I the only person who's first thought was "That must have cost a fucking fortune in paper!"?

Around here, you can get wrapping paper a buck a roll. That's probably five or six bucks worth of paper if that's the case.

Oh thank god I'm not the only one who hasn't lost the plot who can see this for what it is... an excessive, wasteful, unnecessary, likes farming, sheeple-ish, pitiful waste of time.

You're obviously dead inside, OP.

Just re-read my original post (page 1).

To clarify, in case anyone misinterpreted: I was referring to the Elves as (to me, anyway) evil (-looking) buggers, not the people who decide, for bonkers reasons best known to themselves, on wrapping their entire room...

I'm a big fan of this "elf."

thatdadblog.com/the-elf-that-came-to-live-with-us/

Do the people saying this just not use wrapping paper at all?

I say it and nope, I don't use wrapping paper. The thought of buying up a dwindling planetary resource with the express purpose of destroying it is just weird and messed up to me. My family either use material wrapping that can be used indefinitely or we just reuse old paper wrapping that we carefully removed from gifts given to us.

it made her enjoy Christmas much more

More than what?

This will be the sot of person who takes photos of the piles and piles of presents under the tree. And who posts pictures of their dinner.

They probably also indulge in 'wine o'clock and 'cheeky prosecco'.

I know someone who would do this. She posts hilarious elf antics on Facebook every day.

Fucking tedious. And that gurning elf can generally fuck right off.