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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
there are all kinds of weird new things I learn from Nesties/Bumpies
Elf on the Shelf, there's apparently a St. Nicholas celebration that people do; a nestie just posted about "putting their shoes out" tonight - I don't even know what that's about, dollar dances I learned about from the Knot, in addition to learning about Duggars and Gosselins
Re: there are all kinds of weird new things I learn from Nesties/Bumpies
I thought that the shoes out thing was closer to or actually after 12/25?
I have a friend who is Dutch and she grew up w/ the shoe tradition.
Putting the shoes out is a European thing. I grew up with this in Germany. The tradition is that St. Nikolaus comes the night of the 5th to the 6th. In Germany the kids would put their boots out and the next morning they would find them filled with candy, nuts, apples and maybe small toys.
Sometimes parents hire a person dressed up as Nikolaus and in that case he comes the night of the 5th and gives the children their little Nikolaus bag.
I am keeping up the tradition for my kids but we have just started using the stockings for it
wow- I have at least 8 Elfers in my FB feed, I see what at least 2 elves are up to every evening/morning.
I think the face of the Elf is scary. He's just a wee too jolly!
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I think the shoes thing is early December, but in some cultures/countries (I know Spain for one) Christmas isn't a huge gift-giving day, but the Day of the Kings (Epiphany) is - they put out their shoes....January 5? January 6? around there and that's when the kids receive gifts, etc.
I don't either.. I saw one in a store not too long ago but I don't know what the point of them is. One of these days I'll google about it but they kinda creep me out anyways so I'm in no rush.
I never knew what the heck they were until my SIL got one for my nephew recently. I think the point of it is to get your child to behave. You read the child the story and then place the elf on the shelf and you're supposed to move it every now and then. The elf is supposed to be watching the kid and reporting back to Santa if he/she's been naughty or nice.
I don't like Elf on a Shelf - its creepy and weird to tell your little kid that someone's watchign them/spying on them, etc. I can see it for an older kid, but I think something's "off" if your 2/3/4 yo is so greedy and selfish around Christmas that you have to introduce this stalker to your house to get them to behave.
My point in this post was that nobody I know IRL does or talks about these things.
EotS didn't exist until 2005, and I didn't hear about it until last year. It creeps me out.
BUT. I think there's cute stuff to be done with it, and that cute stuff appeals to me, so I bought a random plushy elf from Valley View Farms and am going to introduce it to DD next week. He won't be a tattle, he'll just do silly things around the house - like the leprechauns who came to visit us for St. Patrick's Day.