Happy elf on the shelf freedom day

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No more having to think up interesting things to do. No more plaiting strawberry laces at 11pm to make scarves for melted marshmallow snowmen. No more "it did something very like that a couple of days ago" comments from dc. No more being woken up by dp's horrendous snoring at 2:21am and having to go downstairs to frantically mock something up because I forgot before going to bed. No more googling for ideas and seeing messed up ideas that are totally unsuited or downright mean.

Really looking forward to the next 11 months before the rigmarole starts again!

Oh I know. Was glad to see the back of it. But the kids love it so much and are so invested I can't stop.

I tell my dc I'm scared of elves so we just say hi to them on the shelf in Tesco and scurry on past.

Freedom is right 😂😂
we have a tonne of them so it’s a nuisance

I told the kids the cats would eat them, and the clothes would be bad for the cats' digestion.

I was conned into it when we walked past one in the shop. Kid did the big sad eyes on me until I gave in.

Thank fuck for that! I was conned into it last year (puppydog eyes from 5yo DS1 'Annabelle brought a photo book to school with all the funny things their elves did, why don't the elves visit us mummy?' Cheers Annabelle's mum.

I also didn't factor in his ASD- he is very literal and rules-oriented, and everything had to be bigger and better and more exciting than any previous occasion. So he just tells me off every day for it not being good enough 🙄

3yo NT DS2 bloody loves them and whatever they do though

Aw I kind of love him but we don’t have him from the start of December that’s way to much… we did paint ourselves into a corner so what though as ds announced last year is that the thing he lives most about the elf is that he never does the same thing twice… 😵‍💫 so we’ve had to come up with ever increasingly elaborate ideas…

My eldest dc Is 9. I’ve refused an elf all these years and bloody dh said they could have one this year. What a ruddy pain in the ass it’s been and next year presumably you have to do different things with it?!