This elf. He has been at Grandma’s for my whole life. Pop always had fun putting him in a different place each year. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I was walking through a store at Grandmather Elf Christmas ugly shirt!” Elf on a Shelf is a thing now, a really popular thing. But this thing is real! No, really! Grandma says she has no idea where it came from and never remembers them buying it, and my Mom says it’s been in the house her whole life.