RYAN BAKKEN: Santa Claus now has a helper or spy for who’s naughty or nice?
November 30, 2012 at 6:05 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The tattletale is an elf. More precisely, it’s Elf on a Shelf, which retails for about $30. The 6-inch elf comes with a book that explains its mission, which is to live with young children and report back to Santa about them every day after the family goes to sleep. Continue Reading
Perfect training. Tell kids lies, and get them acclimated to the concept of inappropriate surveillance, so they don’t object when Government tells lies and spies on us without search warrants.
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I guess I’ll never understand how trends gain traction in this day and age. I worked for an independent, family owned and operated toy store down here in Tampa back in 2008 and the owner of the store bought a pallet of Elf on the Shelf dolls from a trade show that year and we absolutely could not GIVE those things away. Every mom that came in said they looked too creepy to them. The Hallmark store two doors down from us couldn’t sell theirs either. Now, they’re all the rage and almost every family with small children I know has one. Go figure!
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We have one and the kids love to wake up to see where it is each morning. It has powers that allows it to move all around.
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