Elf On The Shelf Thread

j-mox · Dec 9, 2014

Saw these on Chive

TheViking · Dec 9, 2014

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That's funny the first one is my kinda elf and the second one is just to funny

gsell · Dec 9, 2014

This is an original from my son, I had no clue who "Saw" was........

TheViking · Dec 9, 2014

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From today we now have a Elf pet and left bomber jacket and goggles...

socsmm6 · Dec 9, 2014

grcthird · Dec 10, 2014

Thought this was fumny.

TheViking · Dec 17, 2014

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Lil ugly · Dec 19, 2014

kushKrawlin said:
joho75287 said:

No - not even remotely close.
I hate the over commercialization of Christmas and loathe lying to my kids. I also have always disliked kids thinking that stuff magically appears for them. Maybe it's my self centeredness, but I prefer them knowing their mom and dad work for the gifts they receive.
Last - Elf on a shelf is just plain creepy.

All the more power to those that want to do it. I was just giving my opinion about it.

Wait.. So your kids have never ran down to see wat Santa brought them?????? No way. Really??? This has to be un-American .. :'( Holy **** man. Hell I'm guessing no Xmas tree either? man i can't imagine not goin to sleep on Xmas eve waitin on Santa.. And I'm guessing that if they had believed in Santa one day when they were older that they might figure out it was y'all all along. Shits kinda depressing. Not tryin to piss u off, just my opinion .. Dam those are some of my best times I can remember. So I take it the tooth fairy is out of the question also? Hahaha

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This is me as well, Christmas just does not seem to be about giving anymore, just about what you can get. And if you don't appreciate what someone gave you then you return it for what you wanted? I only hope I can teach my kid that he can give at anytime for any reason and to not expect that the return on what he gives is the fact that he made something better by giving rather than receiving. I want him to know that and to kick the **** out of the thieving hating lying self centered egotistical pieces of crap that try to screw him over thru life.

Sawzall · Dec 20, 2014

Found this on another site:

LandSpeeder · Dec 20, 2014

TheViking said:
I can't wait to become more financially rounded so that we can adopt children from the Salvation Army Angel Tree again! My wife and I used to love that and we do the Shoes For Orphan Souls and Operation Christmas Child I had one Christmas in my later teens when all I got was a key fob. My family was homeless at the time I still know in spite of the hard times that was one of the best Christmas mornings because even though it was small I did have my family.

I did the Angel Tree this year, a boy and a girl. I truly enjoy random acts of kindness, and don't need credit, but it being brought up, I wanted re-iterate how awesome this program is, and think more people should participate. Brookwood Mall has one if you're in the bham area, but I believe it's too late now.

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I ain't got no kids. And was the fifth kid from a dirt-poor single parent who couldn't hold on to a buck, still can't. She taught middle school, got paid once a month on the 1st of the month. Christmas was.... no where close to her pay day. There were Christmas's we literally didn't get ****. I specifically remember one when I was at an age that peer-pressure mattered the only thing I could come back to school and say I "got from santa" was a hand-me-down pair of shoes and a used pocket knife I wrapped for myself, just so i could have something. No one had to convince me there was no santa, In fact can't remember ever believing in him.

For all those saying the meaning of Christmas is being ruined.... how? why? Because Christians took a Pagan Holiday and made their own from it? Jesus was a real man, but he was not born on Winter Solstice. And then a department store decided to commercialize the holiday to make money and use a make-believe man that had zero to do with religion? I realize this is not a "religion" thread, but my view on that topic is a weird one, since I believe in God, Jesus, and the holy ghost, the Trinity... but not the way a traditional Christian believes in it.

Christmas is a time for giving... but to me, EVERY day is a time for giving. I don't need Santa. I don't mind people enjoying Christmas, and everything that goes along with it. I participate by giving to random causes. It's just never been a holiday for me to receive material goods.