We don’t believe in allowing any fairy stories in our home. We need kids to trust us and know we are there for them. My oldest 2 accused us of lying and asking how could they trust us when kids at school told them it was fake. They made us promise not to do that to their baby brother when he came.
The horror for me is my ass having to remember to move it every day. Sometimes, twice a day. This is the last year for me though.. no more elementary aged kiddos and my 5th grader still believes but .. middle school.. lol Can’t have him going next year and saying his elf moved.. hard truth time then
Maybe they are just hoping for a psychological thriller-type Christmas.
I mean, a personfication of the category of my intrusive thoughts that reinforces my shame-fueled perfectionism is maddening to me as an adult, imagine what it would have done to me as a child. #blacksky #elfontheshelf
The horror for me is my ass having to remember to move it every day. Sometimes, twice a day. This is the last year for me though.. no more elementary aged kiddos and my 5th grader still believes but .. middle school.. lol Can’t have him going next year and saying his elf moved.. hard truth time then
I worked retail years ago and still remember the look on a lady’s face when she asked for the elf which I had never heard of. She described it and I told her that it was creepy and I was glad we didn’t have them in stock.
She complained to my manager but it’s still true
Suspending disbelief in kids for as long as possible is HARD ENOUGH without some lanky kewpie-doll bullshit made in the last 20 years to keep up with in some daily ritual of posing.
Ironically my aunt had a very sick sense of humor. She left me all her childhood porcelain dolls when she died. I crushed them by running them over with my car.
I’m a horror freak and I have one in my home. I have never thought of him that way. Now going in my garage at night, i’m sure jeepers creepers is in there
My wife signed my kids up one year to get text messages from Santa.
At first they blew it off as spam, until the texter knew specifics about them like the name of their pets.
My son freaked out and my daughter locked herself in the bathroom with a pencil as a weapon (John Wick Style).
And let some creepy old man spy on your kids in order to keep them in line is just wrong. I never like the concept that my kids need to be especially good just to get a gift from Santa. They should just be kind and decent humans because I taught them to be better.
My sister & I had Elf on a Shelf BEFORE it became a spy system for Santa. Now, I avoid elves at Christmas. They know my weaknesses & will use them against me.
Yes! Them and Ventriloquist dummies, hate those things with a passion.
I think it was a Hitchcock movie I saw as a kid that had a homicidal maniac ventriloquist dummy in it.
My youngest daughter had one years ago. At night, my older daughter would move it around while her little sister was sleeping. The poor kid woke up terrified and I had no idea what was going on.
Never have I ever. I also made it clear to my daughter that Santa didn’t come to our house.
Did leave Santa’s visits open to other homes with ”not sure what goes on in other people’s homes bc just like everything else in other’s homes, it is none of my business”
I have therapy money saved for her
A kid brought one in for our class today. I was like, “oh great, now there’s an eldritch horror in our classroom.”
Can’t say it’s done anything for behaviour yet…
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"We don't allow sorcery in our house."
Always wondered if anyone broke the bad news to him about where xmas trees, santa, the easter bunny and hiding eggs came from
Now to block that term from my feed, and pray that every image of that little fucker comes with his full title (either in alt text or post text).
Nightmareinducinglittleshitmumblegrumble
https://youtu.be/r2ZlBOGa84U?si=AzKd0p2YEqPi-ksL
Felon on a Melon
That’s also creepy AF
I mean, a personfication of the category of my intrusive thoughts that reinforces my shame-fueled perfectionism is maddening to me as an adult, imagine what it would have done to me as a child. #blacksky #elfontheshelf
...and have VERY naughty children
Have you seen the folks that some of us marry?
Or just move in with?🤔
She complained to my manager but it’s still true
That'd be one very, very short horror film involving what happens when a dead elf arrives on the floor of a bedroom
*Runs to get 🔪 *
😂
Knife in your wife
Slaughter of your daughter
Gun at your son
Smother of your brother
At first they blew it off as spam, until the texter knew specifics about them like the name of their pets.
My son freaked out and my daughter locked herself in the bathroom with a pencil as a weapon (John Wick Style).
#UNITEAMERICA
I think it was a Hitchcock movie I saw as a kid that had a homicidal maniac ventriloquist dummy in it.
Did leave Santa’s visits open to other homes with ”not sure what goes on in other people’s homes bc just like everything else in other’s homes, it is none of my business”
I have therapy money saved for her
Can’t say it’s done anything for behaviour yet…