For fuck's sake Ryman

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Thanks for putting the bloody Elf on the Shelf all over your window display with big ‘bargain!’ price tags attached to him. My DS2 (4) was thrilled and amazed to see ‘Ginger’ around so early in the year but my DS1 looked at me with big, moist, widening eyes...

I have absolutely no idea what the screenshot from Marthas post says

Also why should retailers hide their stock? If products aren’t on the shelf I’m assuming they don’t sell them.

Tell him due to the uncertainty around Brexit, Elf has been forced to take a second job.

as a mum of teens who never had elf on the shelf, what is it?

in my day it was all a carrot for rudolph and talc on the carpet with dad's footprints going thru it thus proving santa had been

"Also why should retailers hide their stock?" That's the problem with capitalism and inevitable commodity fetishism it's all fakey fakey and people go berserk and spend ££££££££ on crap tat which makes gives them an illusion of something that can never be bought.

I find snobbery about things like ‘elf on the shelf’ quite funny. We don’t do it because I can’t be arsed but I don’t look down on those who do as people who buy into a marketing ploy, it’s not a tradition, yadda yadda, drivel drivel, boring boring. Funny how these SuperParents always tell their kids about Santa though, the biggest marketing ploy of the modern world. That makes them better than you OP, and they want to tell you. Hang your head you heathen!

It’s a bit of fucking fun, people on this site need to seriously unclench.

It's all about the Yule Woodlouse in our house...you never know where he will show up next...

The Elf on the Shelf has only been a thing for about 10 minutesWell done, big business- another marketing triumph!

Why is Magdalen Laundry offensive? I'm being a bit slow today.

We’ve gone with the second job excuse. DS2 was bouncingly happy about it. DS1 gave me the ‘seems legit’ sideeye.

We also do the Reindeer’s Bells! And from now on, the otter’s snuffle.

Foxsticks: they were abusive workhouses run by church to punish fallen women and unmarried mothers

*@raisinsarenottheonlyfruit * Where is that sloth paper from? I NEEEEED some (for my adult DSis)

That spelling wouldn’t look out of place in a few FB groups I’m in.

I’m so glad I have teenagers and we don’t have to bother with elf on the shelf, Santa’s grotto visits, reindeer feeding or any other Xmas bollocks.

I bloody hate Xmas.

Good grief. It’s not as if her username is ‘ISupportMagdalenLaundries’.

Good gravy! Is that Mr Hanky the Talking Poo in a Christmas hat, wishing?

I'm only stating the meaning...

I know Trout. it wasn’t a dig at you

The Magdalen Laundries were brutal places where unmarried Irish girls who got pregnant were sent to have their babies (which were then taken from then and put up for adoption, or spend their lives in orphanages if they weren't "chosen"), and subjected to an horrific regime of unrelenting physical work, semi-starvation, corporal punishment for the slightest infringement of the rules and brutal servitude. Many of them never got out. Those who did were often broken physically and mentally.

The Laundries were run by nuns under the auspices of the Catholic Church.

Christianity at its most compassionate. (And I speak as a Christian)

I think most people know what a Magdalen Laundry is don’t they?

Funny how a rape joke is still standing on this thread though...

Sorry Fox - I didn't realise you'd given a much more succinct explanation. Hadn't got that far.

Those elves scare the shit out of me.