The truth about 'Elf on the Shelf'
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
December 9, 2015 11:37am CST
If you have been living in a cave it is possibly you haven't seen or heard of "Elf on the Shelf"....last year Facebook was inundated with this silly little guy. He turned up on bookshelves, in washing machines, under bushes and up in trees. It got to be a little too much.
Now I found out that "Elf on the Shelf" came to be in none other than my State of Tennessee. Go figure!
In order not to reinvent wheel regarding the truth about this elf, you can read about it for yourself.
Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elf_on_the_Shelf_poses_01.JPG
At Christmas time, adoptable pixie-elves take up residence in millions of homes around the globe.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Dec 15
Crazy glue would work just fine!
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
9 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill It is very unkind of you to suggest that "crazy" glue would suit me best.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
2 Mar 16
I did not know where he came from, he just seemed to appear in society. Thanks for the solution.
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
9 Dec 15
My sister has the elf for her children and they love him! It has worked for them.
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@scorpiobabes (7225)
• United States
5 Jan 16
@LovingMyBabies Is there a reason for him? I just don't get it...
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Dec 15
wild, I wondered where it came from!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Dec 15
I wonder who let him out of this state .
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Dec 15
@Jessicalynnt That sounds possible.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill he prob got put in a suitcase to be cute and the owner smuggled him unknowingly
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
13 Dec 15
I didn't know that much about it either.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
10 Dec 15
I am afraid I have not been clued in on this tradition. I did know about the garden knome that traveled around the world from place to place and had pictures taken with his hosts and a sign of the city/state he was in at the time and he even traveled overseas as well.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Dec 15
I learned a lot more about it. Now I will for that Elf on a Shelf!
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
3 Mar 16
@AbbyGreenhill I saw it in your feed and thought I would look at it.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Mar 16
This is strange, this is the second comment today on this discussion from December!
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@LadyDuck (502189)
• Italy
9 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill It is possible, but I cannot remember it.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Dec 15
@LadyDuck You are better off not knowing LOL!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Dec 15
Really, maybe you just didn't notice him.
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
9 Dec 15
Every house in our family has an Elf on a Shelf and each one is a mischievous little merrymaker
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Dec 15
I was starting to think I was the only one who knows about this guy!
@garymarsh6 (23978)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 15
So you need to take partial blame for it then! 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Dec 15
Maybe 1/4 of the blame since I'm a Yankee who moved to TN!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
13 Dec 15
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
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@scorpiobabes (7225)
• United States
5 Jan 16
My daughter is grown (22), so we missed out on the tradition. I read somewhere that this is to encourage children to be good during the holidays, but I didn't see that in the article, and actually, I'm kind of glad I missed out on this 'tradition'. I do love Christmas, but that's an awful lot of work.
@marlina (154103)
• Canada
9 Dec 15
I heard about this little Elf last year, but our 2 sons are now adults, so it was too late for us to use it for them. I think it's a cute thing.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Dec 15
Its cute except when that's all you see on Facebook and on TV...Now I can't hide from it since it started where I live.
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
10 Dec 15
That would work out real good for the grand kids.
