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Bloody Elf turns up in a balloon now

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DressingGownofDoom · 01/12/2020 12:59

I know IABU and a curmudgeon but why does everything have to be such an exhibition at Christmas? Elves can't just appear this year they have to float from Lapland in a balloon with a present Confused I know, I know if you don't like it don't do it. That's fine but I do feel sorry for the kids whose parents don't have £15 to spend on an elf balloon and then a present on top just because it's the first of December. I thought this year might make us all step back and maybe consider a simpler celebration of Christmas but no, the social media onslaught of who can be the most ostentatious Christmas fanatic is worse than ever. I hate it.

Bloody Elf turns up in a balloon now
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GordonsAliveAndEatsPies · 01/12/2020 17:57

DD just asked about the elf on the shelf at school and if we should have one at home. I told her he was only there to make sure the naughty kids weren’t naughty. She doesn’t want one now.

AlwaysLatte · 01/12/2020 18:00

This is all very bizarre. It's Ok if you 'do' elves and it's ok if you don't. Don't need a Mum-scrap in the playground 😂

TheKeatingFive · 01/12/2020 18:02

It's Ok if you 'do' elves and it's ok if you don't. Don't need a Mum-scrap in the playground 😂

Exactly Wink

LastChristmas20 · 01/12/2020 18:05

Well I'm about to break some hearts.

I live in a very naice Surrey suburb.

University educated.

My TV isn't even wall mounted.

Work full time.

Claim no benefits.

And still fucking love seeing my 7 year old squeal with delight when she saw her elf back this morning.

We rather unceremoniously put it in the Christmas tree.

But sorry - I'll tell her she's too middle class for such scummy nonsense and put a swift end to the magic and happiness it brings her!

(Also - will horrify some - my business owner, more than full time working, husband - does far more of the elaborate elf situations than I do)

What a load of miserable snobby trollops some of you are.

haircutsRus · 01/12/2020 18:09

@TheKeatingFive

In those days people knew what Christmas was actually for.

Having nice times with their loved ones?

I don’t think that’s changed.

Or been radically undermined by soft toy antics.

Celebrating the birth of Christ actually, if you want to get back to basics.
RedToothBrush · 01/12/2020 18:09

@TheKeatingFive

I don't get the school trying to flog holidays and expensive bikes to my 5 year old. Unlike elf cctv experiences.

The schools not ‘flogging’ anything though.

And literally no one I know does elf surveillance.

I. Got. A. Leaflet. Last. Year. From. My. Son's. School. Trying. To. Sell. ELF. CCTV. Which. Included. Doing. It. And. Talking. About. It. In. Class.

The school absolutely were flogging it via 4 and 5 year olds.

dodobookends · 01/12/2020 18:10

@GordonsAliveAndEatsPies

DD just asked about the elf on the shelf at school and if we should have one at home. I told her he was only there to make sure the naughty kids weren’t naughty. She doesn’t want one now.
Grin
SleepingStandingUp · 01/12/2020 18:11

@LastChristmas20

Well I'm about to break some hearts.

I live in a very naice Surrey suburb.

University educated.

My TV isn't even wall mounted.

Work full time.

Claim no benefits.

And still fucking love seeing my 7 year old squeal with delight when she saw her elf back this morning.

We rather unceremoniously put it in the Christmas tree.

But sorry - I'll tell her she's too middle class for such scummy nonsense and put a swift end to the magic and happiness it brings her!

(Also - will horrify some - my business owner, more than full time working, husband - does far more of the elaborate elf situations than I do)

What a load of miserable snobby trollops some of you are.

I've heard pretending to be working class is the new entertainment of the middle classes. Dumbing down with your plastic scrap heap futire-killer, with your door bows and what not. Just don't let her tell her friends, she'll never marry well
BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze · 01/12/2020 18:12

Just don't let her tell her friends, she'll never marry well

🤣

aquashiv · 01/12/2020 18:15

What the feck is this?

TheKeatingFive · 01/12/2020 18:15

Celebrating the birth of Christ actually, if you want to get back to basics.

I think you’ll find Christmas pre-dates Christianity.

Elfieishere · 01/12/2020 18:17

Celebrating the birth of Christ actually, if you want to get back to basics

What? Who? Is this a elf I haven’t heard about 😂

TheKeatingFive · 01/12/2020 18:17

I. Got. A. Leaflet. Last. Year. From. My. Son's. School. Trying. To. Sell. ELF. CCTV.

They tried to sell you CCTV?

Srsly?

😱

TheKeatingFive · 01/12/2020 18:18

What a load of miserable snobby trollops some of you are.

Grin
TheKeatingFive · 01/12/2020 18:21

I'll tell her she's too middle class for such scummy nonsense and put a swift end to the magic and happiness it brings her!

Practice in your most patronising tones

Thats only for the poor, naughty kids, darling. Now come and read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’

slipperywhensparticus · 01/12/2020 18:24

I'm not doing an elf I always used to do Christmas eve stuff but everyone has now started to do Christmas eve boxes I don't feel like doing it anymore

NerrSnerr · 01/12/2020 18:28

We have an elf. We don't spend any other money on the whole thing but sometimes he brings things like a Christmas colouring book or something we would have bought the children anyway.

They come down the stairs in the morning, look for him and love finding him in silly positions or stealing their chocolate or something. It's silly and the children love it. I think it'll be a happy memory they look back on when they're older.

Why be so snobby? Why care so much about what others do. We choose not to do Christmas Eve boxes but doesn't affect me whether another parent sticks some pyjamas, some hot chocolate and some pop corn in a box.

malificent7 · 01/12/2020 18:34

Loving the fact that people are defending their class status via elf on the shelf!

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Mucky1 · 01/12/2020 18:39

@NewlyGranny

Mucky1, where is that girl elf's hand?! 😂
If you look closely you'll see we have had her 7 yrs she's a bit bedraggled 🤣 she's a bit more meth head then mistletoe elf now so who knows she's definitely seen some stuff anyway.
ShedFace · 01/12/2020 18:42

We never had one. It looked like hassle. 👀

ShedFace · 01/12/2020 18:44

We don’t do Christmas Eve boxes either. Or charity goats. But I’m not in any position to judge as I have gone massively overboard present wise this year. We all do things differently don’t we.

Fluffybutter · 01/12/2020 18:48

I hate the elf thing with a passion . Really pisses me off that dd feels left out and keeps asking why we don’t have one .

  1. he’s fucking creepy
  2. there are not enough hours in the day
  3. I don’t want to . I can’t even tell her they’re not real as I wouldn’t want to burst another kids bubble .
RedToothBrush · 01/12/2020 18:51

@TheKeatingFive

I. Got. A. Leaflet. Last. Year. From. My. Son's. School. Trying. To. Sell. ELF. CCTV.

They tried to sell you CCTV?

Srsly?

😱

Yes. Seriously. £15 a pop.
Nohomemadecandles · 01/12/2020 18:54

My kids have never mentioned it. Not once and they are almost 10 & 8.

Live and let live. Elf or no elf. They aren't deprived.