For Christmas, I've always wanted a good AO3 story that isn't left abandoned and/or unfinished. But apparently that's too much to ask since it's never happened to me :'D
When you get nor give no gifts because there's no one in your life, Christmas becomes goofy and depressing. Thanks a lot addiction and abusive parents.
@@supersmashseandx1991 My Norwegian Holiday. (My mom had a friend over 2 hours ago, I overheard them talking about the movie. Apparently my uncle and aunt has watched it?? I did find out I could watch it on a subscription I have, so I might do that and dissect it, video essay style)
We had an elf on the shelf when I was little and we named him Leaf and he “puked jelly beans into a wine glass.” My parents put him like that in our cupboard
My favorite part is people putting "Joy" on everything, when joy is the exact opposite of everything I see from people between Halloween and New Years.
Tbf its not THAT recent, I'm 25 next month and I remember it as a kid But I'm noticing it's a lot more marketed now, it spread thru word of mouth around here
That video of someone touching the elf..... Those poor kids were certainly TRAUMATIZED. I don't understand why "no touching" is a rule with this tradition.
@@DrawciaGleam02 it was mainly to prevent kids from touching christmas decorations. the elf would be close to eg the tree and the kids would stay away, so nothing would be accidentally broken
This reminds me how I once was in a secret santa in school, the budget was $25 dollars. I got a $10 mcdonalds giftcard, which was not anything on my list of things I preferred, and clearly under budget. I have food allergies I can't even go to mcdonalds LMAO
When i worked at barnes and noble customers were LOSING IT over the elf on the shelf set. I had people arguing with me if there weren't a girl one or boy one, etc. Someone told me she "couldn't do christmas" without the blue eyed boy elf.
I remember when Elf on the Shelf first came out, because my mom was a kindergarten teacher, and she felt like it could be kinda dangerous for kids psychologically, and it surprises me how popular and commonplace they seem to have become.
Every Christmas my mom turns on A Christmas Story from 12 AM to dinner and I don’t know why. My whole family practically knows the whole movie by heart at this point.
One time I did a middle school secret santa with 3 friends. Everyone got like $30+ dollar gifts while I received a battered horror book from her family bookshelf (I'm well known for not being able to handle horror at all), a half used sample size lotion from bath and body works, and a few random used tea light candles...
My family never had an elf on the shelf, but I also never remember seeing them in shops or anything. This was the nineties, and while I know they did exist I guess they just weren’t a thing in Ireland yet. What my family did have, which was probably way worse, was an army of singing Christmas teddies. It was a (extremely weird) tradition my family had, where every year we would buy a new singing teddy decoration. You know the ones, with the button on their hands that would play the worst quality rendition of jingle bells you’ve ever heard. We kept them all on the fireplace and by the time I moved out we had at least 20. That number has probably gone up. So yeah that’s my fun Christmas tradition, it’s certainly a weird one.
There were invented in the 2010s, it was a new childrens author who made them and got a big advertising campaign going. Not a tradition, just a marketing tactic
So Elf on the Shelf was a thing in my family, but I'm old so this is back like pre-9/11, the only rule was don't touch them. Hiding them I think was just a thing for my mother to do. I stopped believing in santa at like 4, and then I realized the elves were fake so I just kept moving them. My mother got angrier every year until she stopped doing it. Sounds cruel, but she's shit so it's actually cool.
my family had (still has) an elf on the shelf. my parents would set him up in all sorts of wacky scenarios (ziplining across the living room, getting in to flour, etc). definitely my favorite festive part of christmastime (outside of the actual holiday).
There were invented in the 2010s, it was a new childrens author who made them and got a big advertising campaign going. Not a tradition, just a marketing tactic. Your family has no culture
My family has an Elf on the Shelf that we used to leave around for my brother when he was younger. I’ve never had to fly during the holidays but oh my god that sounds awful Secret Santa sucks Great video Allie and I hope you have a happy holiday season!
Christmastime has been bittersweet for me sine my parents got divorced but I still enjoy it. Thankfully I don't have to travel for it and seeing horror stories like Allie's makes me wish there was better public transportation (i.e., trains) in America.
When I have kids why would I lie to them about an old man breaking into our home to give us gifts? That seems to defeat the purpose of making the magic lasts. Like they’re going to outgrow it at some point then the magic goes away, so if he never was there in the first place wouldn’t the magic of the season stick around by knowing Christmas is about family and laughs and giving ? Tf?
15:18 Same reason why it can be weird to name a kid after you aka your kid is a Jr. Kid's gonna wake up in the middle of the night thinking their mom or dad is calling their name 💀
I have a elf on the shelf trauma story!! :0 I think about it every year and will tell it to whoever will listen lol Basically, my family doesn't do elf on the shelf and never has. I knew it existed but didn't know there were like . . . rules? It was just a tradition I knew some people had but didn't know anything about it at all. Anyway, I was at a friend's birthday party in December when I was in elementary school. It was a big party because there was the rule that if you want to hand out invitations at school, everyone in the class had to get one (tho it could just be all the girls which was the case for this party). They of course, had an elf on the shelf and I saw it when we were up around the house doing party games. I thought it was interesting and started touching it and like feeling it's face kinda idk, just like a curiosity thing cuz I'd never seen one except in stores and I just thought it was like a decoration or a toy. Next thing I know, this one girl (who I don't like for a number of reasons) screams "Elli's touching the elf on the shelf!" and the whole group turns to me in what felt like slow motion and a bunch of them start yelling at me how I KILLED it (because apparently that's the lore where I'm from idk) and I'm just sitting here, having probably the first panic attack of my thus far short life and trying to make up a lie about how it looked like it was going to fall because even though I had no idea what was really going on, I knew that I had made a mistake. The adult running the party had to step in and calm everyone down and decided to ask me like "did you mean to touch it?" and I just gave my excuse over and over, though I'm sure I wasn't a good liar at the time. She did her best to redirect the kids but I was trying not to cry the rest of the party and just wanted to go home. I just wish I had the knowledge to know I should just explain myself and my lack of knowledge, but growing up with undiagnosed autism, I was used to feeling like I had to lie my way around my lack of knowledge and understanding in social and learning settings.
Goodness! I had a feeling something like that could happen with those elf on the shelf rules......a kid unaware of the rules that touches the elf out of curiosity. Yikes.
You always put a smile on my face in every video, I look forward to your uploads, it’s always a pleasant surprise in my notifications tab. thank you❤️ happy holidays
i always find sexy santa stuff interesting from an outside looking in perspective i guess. i'm not a christmas person (an absolute halloweenie if you will) so i don't have the basis i think is needed for having that particular kink or fetish. as a fanfiction girlie i've definitely read fics with it as the focus because who am i to say no to a wonderfully written fic about my OTP that just so happens to include santa suits or lingerie? i just read one last week and it had a pretty good plot all things considered. anyway, the reason i bring it up is because from what i've seen, there are generally a handful of reasons for it, though this isn't to say they are required (some people will literally just sexualize anything): trauma, missing childhood, the general love of dilfs and milfs, and weird pavlovian shit i don't know how to explain. i fully get the ick around sexualizing a thing you're getting your children hyped about, but i think people do that with everything- people go to disneyland just to fuck at the mouse house all the time, pool parties being a huge thing for kids but i've definitely seen parents mention how fun they are for other reasons, and etcetera. some of it comes down to psychology i'm not smart enough to explain, another third is just human sexuality (my friends find the santa from rise of the guardians super hot because tatt'd dilf), and i guess the final piece is just escapism or trying to find something fun in what you're surrounded with as a tired parent. it's a weird kink/fetish, but what kink/fetish isn't weird i guess? idk, you bringing it up made me thoughtful lmao
Santa Baby makes me SOOOO UNCOMFY what the fuck is up with sexualizing Santa. Like first of all he’s married???? Second of all: you’re getting coal for doing that to him fr
The “dragon riding Vikings” celebrating Christmas actually makes sense considering pre- Christian Germanic people including the Norse celebrated Yule which is a winter festival from which the inspiration for Christmas was derived.
Not goofy if you celebrate Jesus Christ on Christmas. What's goofy are ugly jailhouse tattoos, orange or green hair, swinish nose rings, frosty eye shadow, sexual confusion, pop culture, anime characters, cosplay, social media obsession, racial pandering, activism, forced diversity and virtue signaling along with feigned environmentalism and sustainability confusion. Merry Christmas with a Happy and prosperous New Year to all!
I had an elf on the shelf and I loved it so much, but my little sister would cry every time she saw it and refuse to go into any room it was in so my parents "sent the elves back to the North Pole early" and we never got them again. I'm still salty
Fun fact, my elf on the shelf nibbles was picked up/touched THREE TIMES in front of me when I was younger (one of which being a really tired me accidentally touching him and started crying, my parents desperately trying to make up a lie of why it’s ok, another time he FELL OUT OF THE TREE and my cat started eating him so my mom picked him up with the tongs and put him back (this has happened two when he’s fallen from where he was) and the last time my mom wasn’t thinking and took him out of the coffee pot cause he was in there
Never experienced horror like American airports during holiday season (im from the uk), i had 3 flights cancelled so i had to stay and extra week and one of the reasons for the flights being cancelled because the pilot didnt show up liek???? 😭😭😭 Even the pilots cant deal with the airports this rime of year
My elf on the shelf was my everything 😭 my father each year set him up having a huge party with all the other stuffed animals and used beans as puke from them 😭😭😭 But the best was my father, stopped the mailman before he arrived and actually allowed him to put the my elf Vinnie into the package / fishtank 😭 I couldn’t understand just how he got there. I personally adore that tradition because my father made it so special. Shout out to my dad he’s the real Christmas magic 🪄
Elf on the shelf was invented in the 2010s, it was a new childrens author who made them and got a big advertising campaign going. Not a tradition, just a marketing tactic. Families that do it have no culture and are filling the void with cheap corporate muck
As much as Christmas is strange and low-key is kinda goofy Christmas was the only day of the year my parents would stop fighting. Christmas was the only time of year I did enjoy as a kid, but yk
i got my bsf at the time for secret santa when i was in 6th grade and went all out, there was a card, little trinkets and a well thought out gift and what did i get for my secret santa? A candle. 😭 To be fair i did end up using it when i got older but holy shit i was so sad …💔
I never wanted to do the Elf thing but one just showed up in my house.. for real i dont know where he came from.. my son named it Pickles and now i have to move the thing every night to a different spot. My son brought it to school once and he is forever traumatized now because all the girls in his class started telling him his elf is a worthless piece of reindeer doo doo because the elfs magic apparently disappeared the second my son picked him up and put him in his school bag. I told him to tell those little brats in his class that Pickles is a gangster and is originally from Philly- so its impossible for him to lose his magic. Lol. I'm so sick of this elf....
We did secret Santa in my highschool band. Sophomore year, the person who got me handed me a half empty pack of gum wrapped in toilet paper… he still got to keep the better gift he got. 0/10
I noticed most Christmas songs are sexual too. Some songs also sounds like the ladies want to have sex with sante. It's creepy and gross to sexualize a sante or the time of year. Like it okay for sex ans stuff but don't make it around Christmas and it's themes it gross and creepy.
Actually when I grew up everyone who celebrated Christmas in my small southern town had a elf on the shelf and I was the only one in school who didn’t have one for some reason cause my parents didn’t have. So I begged them for one an my mom used a random elf ornament that just happened to appear and move around it the same spots over and over but once I got older the elf cough * my parents cough* would forget to move and so I kinda already knew it was fake and to make my self feel better I would move it myself.
My elf on the shelf was named Qbert (why? I got no clue) and one year my mom just stopped putting him out, so he's yet to see the light of the world again
Hallmark movies are bad, but they're honestly a guilty pleasure ngl. The best christmas specials are the spongebob ones. I went to the arcade earlier this month and oh my god, the prize counter guy was HAMMING IT UP with the elf on the shelf shenanigans to the point where he was basically making it into a ventriloquist act.
I'm Dutch so our Santa tradition involved being scared of corporal punishment and abduction. Now in 2023 they've changed the lyrics to pretty much all the songs but back in my day 🧓 (2005 lol) we'd still sing songs like "We're all so excited to find out who will get sweets and who'll be birched" 🙃 Obviously I've never seen anyone be actually birched but yeah it was something still very much part of the Christmas traditions.
i know that it’s absolutely not about the amount of money that someone spends on a gift that matters, but for secret santa this year the person that got me gave me a single 3$ chocolate bar and the budget was around 20$. to make it “worse”, the chocolate bar was from a fundraiser that everyone in that group was involved in, and we all had access to like 40 or so of those same chocolate bars. even my teacher thinks they’re gonna bring in more at some point but i have a feeling they’re not so yk ouch
You know what as someone who is from Ohio I cannot tell you how impossible it is to find anything slightly entertaining. If I lived up by the Christmas Story house I would find that thrilling. What else can you do in Ohio idk
your comment about santa being real and the adults not believing it, just made me think of Danny Gonzalez's song 'I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus' 11/10, my favourite xmas song ever
I'm personally a fan of secret santa actually to be fair, most of my experience with it is just between me and my siblings and I just really like having the opportunity to kinda get more in touch and in tune with my family and figure out the stuff they're into this year. I'm also pretty good at that so a lot of my siblings will also just come and ask me for advice on what to get for the person they have (so many in fact that I could probably figure out who has me this year but I'm choosing not to think about it lol) outside of family, I think that they only good way to do a secret santa is to have everyone involved fill out one of those questionnaires being sure to identify their favorite snacks, brands, or even smells and also allergies. Otherwise everyone is just shooting in the dark except for the two bffs who get each other and know the perfect gifts and make all the others just look that much worse. White elephant is a bit more frustrating but can be good with a theme. Like our family friend will have a white elephant thing but it's specifically for trading cute fuzzy socks, and you usually put fun little things or candy bars in the socks but the focus is on the socks, so it's a pretty nice, even playing field.
I have quite possibly the funniest elf on the shelf story. my parents thought it would be smart to make me feel, and I quote "special," and therefore gave me a Funko Pop elf on the shelf rather than a regular one. I didn't get to name it, my mom painted the name Checkers on the hat rim, as a play on a common phrase, to make it "Checkers self before you wreck yourself." I had weird parents.
Once in middle school a lot of my classmates had Elf on the shelves and we either went to lunch or pe and came back to the classroom trashed with stuff written on the board with everyone’s elf in different places from where they left them. We all freaked and couldn’t believe they had done this…
I did an elf in the shelf when I was little. My parents bought two, one that was for my brother called ‘two’ he was the first one. Yes, it was weird. And then the other one was the ‘girl’ one because you can’t have a boy elf if you’re a girl.
I found out that "all of them" weren't real at once. We were going to be away on vacation and coming home on easter sunday, so my parents had to explain why there wouldnt be an easter egg hunt waiting for me when I got home. So I asked something to the effect of, "so does that mean that the tooth fairy and santa arent real either?" it was a brutal day to say the least lmaoo
We did elf on the shelf for my 4 year old nephew.. he started crying because the cat smacked it with his tail We had to explain that pets are allowed to because they don’t understand 😭
Further into the video: Omg I’ve always thought about “where do they think the presents came from???” And everyone is like you’re overthinking thank got I’m not alone
I'm really glad you got to achieve your goal in 2023! I got my 300th subscriber this month! Granted, that's not quite as grand as yours, but still, I feel like I worked hard for that 300 😊 Congratulations on your achievement! I hope you can reach your new goals for 2024!!
Im more of a yule guy but i mean tomato tomato. Its usually my favorite holiday. Im just so fucking miserable this year. We celebrate today, and while i am making a pretty highly executed buche de noel, in between shit coming out the oven im just laying in bed drinking and watching YT.
Also also from that area! It's actually dope. I've lived all over and still miss home. We'd also watch A Christmas Story on loop during Christmas day ha
Yea I’m Norse Pagan so “Christmas” for me started on the 21st. Also thought it was funny that Allie didn’t like the “dragon riding Vikings” celebrating Christmas considering pre Christian Germanic people celebrated Yule lol 😂
The ironic part of Christmas is the moment Halloween is over, people are crazy for Christmas. But when it actually is Christmas, no one gives a fuck. Then the day after, it’s like it never happened in the first place. What ever happened to Christmas?
For Christmas, I've always wanted a good AO3 story that isn't left abandoned and/or unfinished. But apparently that's too much to ask since it's never happened to me :'D
ME TOO
BRO SAME- ALSO WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP TELLING ME TO READ I LOVE ATSUSHI IM NOT INTO THAT
Am I the only one who gets to the last chapter knowing the last update was like 10 year's ago and just doesn't read it bc I don't want it to end
Hey, I agree. Hate reading good fanfics then learning they are discountinued.
@NotVille_ bro get off of Allie's page. you're not cool
DIDN'T ASK: @NotVille_ = NOT A COOL PERSON L RATIO BOZO IMAGINE
christmas is goofy but presents are awesome andd so is making people happy
Ye but let's remember the true reason for Christmas
@@_Shaylee_ what likee christianity?
@@FemboyKaiSakuthat’s probably what they ment but they won’t admit it.
Bro real
When you get nor give no gifts because there's no one in your life, Christmas becomes goofy and depressing.
Thanks a lot addiction and abusive parents.
If Halloween is not your whole entire personality, don't even talk to me 🎃
I’m glad people like what is tied for my favorite holiday
CZ be having the same niche algorithm as I have.
frr
PREACH! 🎃
Heck yeah
The horror I felt in my body when I found out a part of my city was like closed off, because they were filming a FUCKING HALLMARK MOVIE😭😭😭😭
NO
ACTUAL NIGHTMARE
@@allietricaso OK I REALIZED THE MOVIE HAS *JUST* BEEN RELEASED, BUT I REFUSE TO WATCH IT.
@@FridayCanBeSadSometimeswhat's it called
@@supersmashseandx1991 My Norwegian Holiday. (My mom had a friend over 2 hours ago, I overheard them talking about the movie. Apparently my uncle and aunt has watched it?? I did find out I could watch it on a subscription I have, so I might do that and dissect it, video essay style)
We had an elf on the shelf when I was little and we named him Leaf and he “puked jelly beans into a wine glass.” My parents put him like that in our cupboard
LOL leaf must have had a wild night
My favorite part is people putting "Joy" on everything, when joy is the exact opposite of everything I see from people between Halloween and New Years.
Between Nov 2nd and nys
The reason you never knew anyone who did elf on the shelf is because it's a super recent thing, but it's marketed as a "classic Christmas tradition"
Tbf its not THAT recent, I'm 25 next month and I remember it as a kid
But I'm noticing it's a lot more marketed now, it spread thru word of mouth around here
That video of someone touching the elf.....
Those poor kids were certainly TRAUMATIZED.
I don't understand why "no touching" is a rule with this tradition.
@@DrawciaGleam02 it was mainly to prevent kids from touching christmas decorations. the elf would be close to eg the tree and the kids would stay away, so nothing would be accidentally broken
@@noorahf
Okay, I understand that.....
but I believe many people DON"T put their elf near christmas decorations......
@@DrawciaGleam02 yeah i think the thing just stuck. The elves could break pretty easily as well
This reminds me how I once was in a secret santa in school, the budget was $25 dollars.
I got a $10 mcdonalds giftcard, which was not anything on my list of things I preferred, and clearly under budget. I have food allergies I can't even go to mcdonalds LMAO
Omg noooo😂😭
When i worked at barnes and noble customers were LOSING IT over the elf on the shelf set. I had people arguing with me if there weren't a girl one or boy one, etc. Someone told me she "couldn't do christmas" without the blue eyed boy elf.
When did elf on the shelf become a thing? I think remember seeing one in my teen years, but I dunno....
@ville__well, do you have proof?
@ville__ you don’t have any videos and allie’s first vid is from like 2013
@@queerqueenstanlmao its a bot...
Easy fix, buy an extra and paint it
So a big strange fat man can do breaking and entering and eat people's snack, but when I sneak in and leave kids candy, im committing a felony
I remember when Elf on the Shelf first came out, because my mom was a kindergarten teacher, and she felt like it could be kinda dangerous for kids psychologically, and it surprises me how popular and commonplace they seem to have become.
People have been fully socialised for decades to expect to be spied on, the elf on the shelf is the expression of that
Merry Christmas!🎄I used to believe Elf on the shelf actually came from the North pole lmaooo
Elf on the shelf was so serious in my house. My dad touched him and I sobbed for days. Elf on the shelf altered my brain chemistry for sure.
Every Christmas my mom turns on A Christmas Story from 12 AM to dinner and I don’t know why. My whole family practically knows the whole movie by heart at this point.
Best vibe out of any UA-camr, she gives chill friend energy
I wouldnt say I make christmas my personality, I make being an elf my personality because I am short as hell
this made my boyfriend cackle (I too am an elf)
I’m an elf
One time I did a middle school secret santa with 3 friends. Everyone got like $30+ dollar gifts while I received a battered horror book from her family bookshelf (I'm well known for not being able to handle horror at all), a half used sample size lotion from bath and body works, and a few random used tea light candles...
How thoughtful 🙄
anuc is my favorite artist, he deserves a grammy
For a secret Santa I spent half the day shopping for a gift that I thought would be good for the person, I got a ten dollar note 💀👍
It’s official. Christmas is good now.
LETS GOOOOO
@@allietricasohey
Crimmas
Always a good day when Allie posts
My family never had an elf on the shelf, but I also never remember seeing them in shops or anything. This was the nineties, and while I know they did exist I guess they just weren’t a thing in Ireland yet. What my family did have, which was probably way worse, was an army of singing Christmas teddies. It was a (extremely weird) tradition my family had, where every year we would buy a new singing teddy decoration. You know the ones, with the button on their hands that would play the worst quality rendition of jingle bells you’ve ever heard. We kept them all on the fireplace and by the time I moved out we had at least 20. That number has probably gone up. So yeah that’s my fun Christmas tradition, it’s certainly a weird one.
There were invented in the 2010s, it was a new childrens author who made them and got a big advertising campaign going. Not a tradition, just a marketing tactic
So Elf on the Shelf was a thing in my family, but I'm old so this is back like pre-9/11, the only rule was don't touch them. Hiding them I think was just a thing for my mother to do. I stopped believing in santa at like 4, and then I realized the elves were fake so I just kept moving them. My mother got angrier every year until she stopped doing it.
Sounds cruel, but she's shit so it's actually cool.
4? I stopped believing at like 12, almost 13 😭
Nice try ebenezer Scrooge, possessing a pretty girl to spread Christmas not cheer
my family had (still has) an elf on the shelf. my parents would set him up in all sorts of wacky scenarios (ziplining across the living room, getting in to flour, etc). definitely my favorite festive part of christmastime (outside of the actual holiday).
There were invented in the 2010s, it was a new childrens author who made them and got a big advertising campaign going. Not a tradition, just a marketing tactic. Your family has no culture
@@Rynewulf sorry for enjoying my time with my family ig lol
My family has an Elf on the Shelf that we used to leave around for my brother when he was younger.
I’ve never had to fly during the holidays but oh my god that sounds awful
Secret Santa sucks
Great video Allie and I hope you have a happy holiday season!
Wasn’t expecting an Allie tricaso video today, but glad there is one
I got you🫡
Christmastime has been bittersweet for me sine my parents got divorced but I still enjoy it. Thankfully I don't have to travel for it and seeing horror stories like Allie's makes me wish there was better public transportation (i.e., trains) in America.
When I have kids why would I lie to them about an old man breaking into our home to give us gifts? That seems to defeat the purpose of making the magic lasts. Like they’re going to outgrow it at some point then the magic goes away, so if he never was there in the first place wouldn’t the magic of the season stick around by knowing Christmas is about family and laughs and giving ? Tf?
15:18
Same reason why it can be weird to name a kid after you aka your kid is a Jr.
Kid's gonna wake up in the middle of the night thinking their mom or dad is calling their name 💀
ALLIE IS FEEDING HER BASEMENT CHILDREN 🤭🤭🤭
YES!!!!!!!! I'VE BEEN SO HUNGRY
@@Quyereii I WAS STARVINGGGG
last time she only fed us moldy bread!!! hope this time we get something better!!!
Do you have hair extensions or do you somehow grow out your hair at an unnatural speed?
watch Klaus!!!! it shows the makings of Santa through a toy maker and a mailman- the most heartwarming thing ever- its humorous but not overdone :)
Noted!!
Yes! A boy called Christmas is also a really good one
I have a elf on the shelf trauma story!! :0
I think about it every year and will tell it to whoever will listen lol
Basically, my family doesn't do elf on the shelf and never has. I knew it existed but didn't know there were like . . . rules? It was just a tradition I knew some people had but didn't know anything about it at all.
Anyway, I was at a friend's birthday party in December when I was in elementary school. It was a big party because there was the rule that if you want to hand out invitations at school, everyone in the class had to get one (tho it could just be all the girls which was the case for this party).
They of course, had an elf on the shelf and I saw it when we were up around the house doing party games. I thought it was interesting and started touching it and like feeling it's face kinda idk, just like a curiosity thing cuz I'd never seen one except in stores and I just thought it was like a decoration or a toy.
Next thing I know, this one girl (who I don't like for a number of reasons) screams "Elli's touching the elf on the shelf!" and the whole group turns to me in what felt like slow motion and a bunch of them start yelling at me how I KILLED it (because apparently that's the lore where I'm from idk) and I'm just sitting here, having probably the first panic attack of my thus far short life and trying to make up a lie about how it looked like it was going to fall because even though I had no idea what was really going on, I knew that I had made a mistake.
The adult running the party had to step in and calm everyone down and decided to ask me like "did you mean to touch it?" and I just gave my excuse over and over, though I'm sure I wasn't a good liar at the time. She did her best to redirect the kids but I was trying not to cry the rest of the party and just wanted to go home.
I just wish I had the knowledge to know I should just explain myself and my lack of knowledge, but growing up with undiagnosed autism, I was used to feeling like I had to lie my way around my lack of knowledge and understanding in social and learning settings.
Goodness! I had a feeling something like that could happen with those elf on the shelf rules......a kid unaware of the
rules that touches the elf out of curiosity.
Yikes.
You always put a smile on my face in every video, I look forward to your uploads, it’s always a pleasant surprise in my notifications tab. thank you❤️ happy holidays
I'm actually upset you don't like my boy Anuc
Glad you're happy with how ypur channel is going, you deserve it :)))
She’s so pretty
SEXUALIZING SANTA
Me: OH MY GOD there SEXUALIZING SANTA!?”
i always find sexy santa stuff interesting from an outside looking in perspective i guess. i'm not a christmas person (an absolute halloweenie if you will) so i don't have the basis i think is needed for having that particular kink or fetish. as a fanfiction girlie i've definitely read fics with it as the focus because who am i to say no to a wonderfully written fic about my OTP that just so happens to include santa suits or lingerie? i just read one last week and it had a pretty good plot all things considered. anyway, the reason i bring it up is because from what i've seen, there are generally a handful of reasons for it, though this isn't to say they are required (some people will literally just sexualize anything): trauma, missing childhood, the general love of dilfs and milfs, and weird pavlovian shit i don't know how to explain. i fully get the ick around sexualizing a thing you're getting your children hyped about, but i think people do that with everything- people go to disneyland just to fuck at the mouse house all the time, pool parties being a huge thing for kids but i've definitely seen parents mention how fun they are for other reasons, and etcetera. some of it comes down to psychology i'm not smart enough to explain, another third is just human sexuality (my friends find the santa from rise of the guardians super hot because tatt'd dilf), and i guess the final piece is just escapism or trying to find something fun in what you're surrounded with as a tired parent. it's a weird kink/fetish, but what kink/fetish isn't weird i guess? idk, you bringing it up made me thoughtful lmao
Santa Baby makes me SOOOO UNCOMFY what the fuck is up with sexualizing Santa. Like first of all he’s married???? Second of all: you’re getting coal for doing that to him fr
Happy Holidays Allie! Love your videos! Also this video was hilarious ❤
I’m glad🤭 thank you! Happy holidays to you as well💗
Anuc is my legal father now guys, he responded to my comment asking him to adopt me and he replied "haha... Adopt... [Insert happy emojis]"
The “dragon riding Vikings” celebrating Christmas actually makes sense considering pre- Christian Germanic people including the Norse celebrated Yule which is a winter festival from which the inspiration for Christmas was derived.
Not goofy if you celebrate Jesus Christ on Christmas. What's goofy are ugly jailhouse tattoos, orange or green hair, swinish nose rings, frosty eye shadow, sexual confusion, pop culture, anime characters, cosplay, social media obsession, racial pandering, activism, forced diversity and virtue signaling along with feigned environmentalism and sustainability confusion. Merry Christmas with a Happy and prosperous New Year to all!
I had an elf on the shelf and I loved it so much, but my little sister would cry every time she saw it and refuse to go into any room it was in so my parents "sent the elves back to the North Pole early" and we never got them again. I'm still salty
Fun fact, my elf on the shelf nibbles was picked up/touched THREE TIMES in front of me when I was younger (one of which being a really tired me accidentally touching him and started crying, my parents desperately trying to make up a lie of why it’s ok, another time he FELL OUT OF THE TREE and my cat started eating him so my mom picked him up with the tongs and put him back (this has happened two when he’s fallen from where he was) and the last time my mom wasn’t thinking and took him out of the coffee pot cause he was in there
Never experienced horror like American airports during holiday season (im from the uk), i had 3 flights cancelled so i had to stay and extra week and one of the reasons for the flights being cancelled because the pilot didnt show up liek???? 😭😭😭 Even the pilots cant deal with the airports this rime of year
Christmas movies and songs are ALL about relationships nowadays and it’s so disappointing 💀(also :P)
My elf on the shelf was my everything 😭 my father each year set him up having a huge party with all the other stuffed animals and used beans as puke from them 😭😭😭
But the best was my father, stopped the mailman before he arrived and actually allowed him to put the my elf Vinnie into the package / fishtank 😭 I couldn’t understand just how he got there.
I personally adore that tradition because my father made it so special. Shout out to my dad he’s the real Christmas magic 🪄
Elf on the shelf was invented in the 2010s, it was a new childrens author who made them and got a big advertising campaign going. Not a tradition, just a marketing tactic. Families that do it have no culture and are filling the void with cheap corporate muck
As much as Christmas is strange and low-key is kinda goofy Christmas was the only day of the year my parents would stop fighting. Christmas was the only time of year I did enjoy as a kid, but yk
FYI YOUR SPOILER WARNING TIMECODE IS WRONG!!! (THE TIME CODE IS BEFORE THE WARNING💀)
i got my bsf at the time for secret santa when i was in 6th grade and went all out, there was a card, little trinkets and a well thought out gift and what did i get for my secret santa? A candle. 😭 To be fair i did end up using it when i got older but holy shit i was so sad …💔
I never wanted to do the Elf thing but one just showed up in my house.. for real i dont know where he came from.. my son named it Pickles and now i have to move the thing every night to a different spot. My son brought it to school once and he is forever traumatized now because all the girls in his class started telling him his elf is a worthless piece of reindeer doo doo because the elfs magic apparently disappeared the second my son picked him up and put him in his school bag. I told him to tell those little brats in his class that Pickles is a gangster and is originally from Philly- so its impossible for him to lose his magic. Lol. I'm so sick of this elf....
We did secret Santa in my highschool band. Sophomore year, the person who got me handed me a half empty pack of gum wrapped in toilet paper… he still got to keep the better gift he got. 0/10
I noticed most Christmas songs are sexual too. Some songs also sounds like the ladies want to have sex with sante. It's creepy and gross to sexualize a sante or the time of year. Like it okay for sex ans stuff but don't make it around Christmas and it's themes it gross and creepy.
Actually when I grew up everyone who celebrated Christmas in my small southern town had a elf on the shelf and I was the only one in school who didn’t have one for some reason cause my parents didn’t have. So I begged them for one an my mom used a random elf ornament that just happened to appear and move around it the same spots over and over but once I got older the elf cough * my parents cough* would forget to move and so I kinda already knew it was fake and to make my self feel better I would move it myself.
I’m on a countdown. Three days until I get my electric guitar
My elf on the shelf was named Qbert (why? I got no clue) and one year my mom just stopped putting him out, so he's yet to see the light of the world again
i love elf on the shelf we just started the tradition last year 😭😭 his names jingle and right now he’s at the “north pole to help the big man”
why couldn't they take the eagle out the engine i think it'd be pretty happy to be out of a plane engine
I’m so glad you were able to turn this into your full time job!!!
Hallmark movies are bad, but they're honestly a guilty pleasure ngl. The best christmas specials are the spongebob ones.
I went to the arcade earlier this month and oh my god, the prize counter guy was HAMMING IT UP with the elf on the shelf shenanigans to the point where he was basically making it into a ventriloquist act.
Makes total sense hahah
Is it just me or is the graphic quality of this video not as good as usual. did u switch cameras?
Im Muslim BUT
Pre Christmas Time In December is Awesome
Nobody gonna comment on the sexy santa in the background????💀💀
Congratulations you’re the first😂😂
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I'm Dutch so our Santa tradition involved being scared of corporal punishment and abduction.
Now in 2023 they've changed the lyrics to pretty much all the songs but back in my day 🧓 (2005 lol) we'd still sing songs like "We're all so excited to find out who will get sweets and who'll be birched" 🙃
Obviously I've never seen anyone be actually birched but yeah it was something still very much part of the Christmas traditions.
??? Isn't this sinterklaas?
I love you girl but the you used the babyish voice too much
It’s a bad habit to talk like a Fortnite player
i know that it’s absolutely not about the amount of money that someone spends on a gift that matters, but for secret santa this year the person that got me gave me a single 3$ chocolate bar and the budget was around 20$. to make it “worse”, the chocolate bar was from a fundraiser that everyone in that group was involved in, and we all had access to like 40 or so of those same chocolate bars. even my teacher thinks they’re gonna bring in more at some point but i have a feeling they’re not so yk ouch
You know what as someone who is from Ohio I cannot tell you how impossible it is to find anything slightly entertaining. If I lived up by the Christmas Story house I would find that thrilling. What else can you do in Ohio idk
Literally as someone who doesn’t care about lebron and baseball it’s misery
As someone who is born on Christmas, I believe this video should’ve been an hour long
It was 20 min long :O
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@@allietricaso ok but lowkey elf on the shelves are scary TvT
AGREED
my biggest achievement is having my comment be hearted by anuc once😭
I see it now when she’s washing her hair she does look like Danny Gonzales
your comment about santa being real and the adults not believing it, just made me think of Danny Gonzalez's song 'I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus'
11/10, my favourite xmas song ever
Yes! Another Danny fan on here!
I'm personally a fan of secret santa actually
to be fair, most of my experience with it is just between me and my siblings and I just really like having the opportunity to kinda get more in touch and in tune with my family and figure out the stuff they're into this year. I'm also pretty good at that so a lot of my siblings will also just come and ask me for advice on what to get for the person they have (so many in fact that I could probably figure out who has me this year but I'm choosing not to think about it lol)
outside of family, I think that they only good way to do a secret santa is to have everyone involved fill out one of those questionnaires being sure to identify their favorite snacks, brands, or even smells and also allergies. Otherwise everyone is just shooting in the dark except for the two bffs who get each other and know the perfect gifts and make all the others just look that much worse.
White elephant is a bit more frustrating but can be good with a theme. Like our family friend will have a white elephant thing but it's specifically for trading cute fuzzy socks, and you usually put fun little things or candy bars in the socks but the focus is on the socks, so it's a pretty nice, even playing field.
can we get more yap sessions 🙏 this was what I needed on christmas eve
I have quite possibly the funniest elf on the shelf story. my parents thought it would be smart to make me feel, and I quote "special," and therefore gave me a Funko Pop elf on the shelf rather than a regular one. I didn't get to name it, my mom painted the name Checkers on the hat rim, as a play on a common phrase, to make it "Checkers self before you wreck yourself." I had weird parents.
another day another allie tricaso banger
i love anuc how could you. he is my favorite part aboutu the holiday season
HE JUST KIND OF SCARES ME IM SORRY HAHAH
Once in middle school a lot of my classmates had Elf on the shelves and we either went to lunch or pe and came back to the classroom trashed with stuff written on the board with everyone’s elf in different places from where they left them. We all freaked and couldn’t believe they had done this…
YOU USED THE COD ZOMBIES NOISES I LOVE THAT
I did an elf in the shelf when I was little. My parents bought two, one that was for my brother called ‘two’ he was the first one. Yes, it was weird. And then the other one was the ‘girl’ one because you can’t have a boy elf if you’re a girl.
I celebrate the Solstice with my friends - always felt more connected with the old traditions
homestuck video when..
Right now
that image of santa is so distracting i cant take it
merry christmas!!!! hope u have a good christmas love ur content!
I found out that "all of them" weren't real at once. We were going to be away on vacation and coming home on easter sunday, so my parents had to explain why there wouldnt be an easter egg hunt waiting for me when I got home. So I asked something to the effect of, "so does that mean that the tooth fairy and santa arent real either?" it was a brutal day to say the least lmaoo
Aww, man!
I remember being the most hurt that the tooth fairy wasn’t real
We did elf on the shelf for my 4 year old nephew.. he started crying because the cat smacked it with his tail
We had to explain that pets are allowed to because they don’t understand 😭
Further into the video: Omg I’ve always thought about “where do they think the presents came from???” And everyone is like you’re overthinking thank got I’m not alone
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Danny Gonalez thought that as well. He mentions it in a music video.....
dont disrespect precious anuc hes so majestic
IM SORRY HE SCARES ME HAHAHA
@@allietricaso 😭😭
I'm really glad you got to achieve your goal in 2023! I got my 300th subscriber this month! Granted, that's not quite as grand as yours, but still, I feel like I worked hard for that 300 😊
Congratulations on your achievement! I hope you can reach your new goals for 2024!!
Im more of a yule guy but i mean tomato tomato. Its usually my favorite holiday. Im just so fucking miserable this year. We celebrate today, and while i am making a pretty highly executed buche de noel, in between shit coming out the oven im just laying in bed drinking and watching YT.
Also ex catholic. Which is weird. Neither parent is religious. But I had to go to PSR and make confirmation? The fuck?
Also also from that area! It's actually dope. I've lived all over and still miss home. We'd also watch A Christmas Story on loop during Christmas day ha
Yea I’m Norse Pagan so “Christmas” for me started on the 21st. Also thought it was funny that Allie didn’t like the “dragon riding Vikings” celebrating Christmas considering pre Christian Germanic people celebrated Yule lol 😂
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16:41 MORE DOGOOOOO!!!!!
Santa is real, yourparents must have been trying to hide that you were naughty by hiding presents "from santa"
are you 6?? 😭😭😭
@SaltyOrganSoup I seen him at the mall
The ironic part of Christmas is the moment Halloween is over, people are crazy for Christmas. But when it actually is Christmas, no one gives a fuck. Then the day after, it’s like it never happened in the first place. What ever happened to Christmas?
Even tho its goofy I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas :p
Good God no way you put a trigger warning for people vomiting
Some ppl just don’t wanna hear about that stuffs🤷♀️
HOW COULD YOU SAY YOU HATE ANUC????? HE IS SO BABYGIRL
IM SORRY
buff santa is so distracting
its such a cursed image
He sees you when you’re sleeping👹
He knows when you’re awake👹