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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you were an elf/elfette at the North Pole, what job would you want? I would want to make gingerbread houses.
rsdsharp
(12,056 posts)a dentist!
debm55
(61,074 posts)Polly Hennessey
(8,886 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)lastlib
(28,395 posts)I could've had LOADS of fun with that job!
debm55
(61,074 posts)House of Roberts
(6,565 posts)the Porsches and Ferraris before delivery.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Glorfindel
(10,175 posts)I've always enjoyed wrapping Christmas presents.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,671 posts)seriously to apply for acceptance in that training program for elves because my skills need a lot of improvement. OTOH, I'd love being the elf historian, cultural mythkeeper&librarian of the yearly yearbooks I'd publish and/or do interviews with the Planetary climatologist on TWC who is warning that "Winter (snow) is coming (someday)!" when, instead, Earth just gets hotter! So be good or you'll get fossil fuel and plastic as stocking stuffers instead of seedless mandarins, chocolate, and gelte. It would be cool to win the lottery for the yearly spot as Santa's 2nd seat navigator if it's not too technical? (LOL).
debm55
(61,074 posts)LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)use Christmas bags from the Dollar store.
thatcrowwoman
(1,230 posts)Some crayons/magic markers, colored pencils, or stamps for ink pads, maybe some stickers. No Glitter!!! To be fancy, I might add some curling ribbon.
🕊🩵💫🎶tcw
debm55
(61,074 posts)happybird
(5,400 posts)What you said reminded me of a gift from a coworker/friend a few years ago. He is a Libertarian (ugh. dont get me started
) and we often argued politics and had a ball teasing and ragging on each other, in general. Kitchens can be brutal, lol!
Of course, he called me a Commie and I called him a Capitalist Pig. He knew very well of the burning hatred our boss, her husband, and I all had for tfg.
This was how he wrapped my Christmas gift one year:

I didnt know until I opened the gift that when we were out doing our traditional shopping trip, he circled back around and got me the same gift I was buying for our boss because, In Communist Russia, everyone gets same gift.
debm55
(61,074 posts)LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)Bayard
(29,942 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)Walleye
(45,093 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,866 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)I'd be the one with a clipboard in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other hand.
Perhaps on occasion a little "syrup" could me out.
debm55
(61,074 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)I'm banking that I could make Santa's naughty list in about 4 hours!
debm55
(61,074 posts)calimary
(90,312 posts)EMBELLISHMENTS!!!
Embellishments To The MAX!!!
debm55
(61,074 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)calimary
(90,312 posts)Cuz Id want to work off of whatever base or theme youd establish. Smooth? Textured? Embellishments? Flowers? Festoons? Stars? Figures? Colors? You direct, I respond.
debm55
(61,074 posts)CrispyQ
(41,017 posts)so I'd like to hand paint toys.
I discovered that the gingerbread recipe you use to make houses is not the same as the one for cookies. My gingerbread pieces came out all puffy & had to be trimmed & the little windows I'd cut filled in with puffed dough when they baked. In the end, I sliced the pieces into shapes & frosted them & we ate them. I put Kahlua in my gingerbread cookies one year & they were delicious.
A friend did an Eifel Tower gingerbread structure one year that was awesome. She decorated it with frosting & put tiny little white & blue lights on it & used it as a centerpiece for her New Year's party. Very festive!!
debm55
(61,074 posts): Oh I see you want to work with the reindeer. Painting toys is fine too.
Hermit-The-Prog
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AllaN01Bear
(29,665 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)thatcrowwoman
(1,230 posts)Or maybe stuffed animal maker.
Or cookie baker.
Package wrapper?
Santas pack packer. Ive got mad Tetris skills for loading the car for a long drive, so Im sure I could fill the pack quite efficiently.
Though I expect Santas pack has the same properties as Mary Poppins bag and the Weasleys tent in Harry Potter. I could sure use one of those!
🕊🩵💫🎶tcw
debm55
(61,074 posts)us with the year of Tickle Me, Elmo.
IcyPeas
(25,596 posts)I would be in charge of bringing all the misfit toys from The Island of Misfit Toys and integrating them in with the other toys. Just because they are different, or not perfect doesn't mean they don't deserve to be loved.
Whether it be a reindeer with a bright red nose, or a Charlie in the Box, or a choo choo train with square wheels, or an elephant with pink polka-dots. 😉
AllaN01Bear
(29,665 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,665 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)used some of the elfs and elfettes cut their fingers and it threw us back a couple of days. They were told to wear gloves, but darn it . some were too busy drinking the eggnog. In fact, one got ran over by a reindeer. You hear that reindeer elfs ---keep an eye on those reindeer.
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)of a crew assembling bicycles and wagons, so that no dad would be burdened with having to do this on Christmas Eve.
debm55
(61,074 posts)year.
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)I was the department manager of the nursery. Since winter is a slow time for plants and gardening stuff, my department sold Christman trees and any toy with wheels that had to be assembled. I'm pretty mechanically inclined, so I got to build display models of all of them. On Christman eve about an hour before closing, we announced we were selling all the assembled ones at a discount. Lots of happy dads (and moms) that evening.
debm55
(61,074 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,428 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)going to get that head a-hole of these. You better ask Santa and get back to me.
DBoon
(25,057 posts)There would be no more snow at the north pole anymore!
Put tiny solar cells in republicans' stockings - they will hate it for being "woke"
Hope22
(4,811 posts)dressing baby dolls!😁
debm55
(61,074 posts)Harker
(17,912 posts)She shoots and scores!
debm55
(61,074 posts)an air hockey game, go to that department. Otherwise, pick another job.
Harker
(17,912 posts)Guess I'll have to put a team together.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Hockey can be played on breaks.
Gary Bettmann just gave us the okay.
Harker
(17,912 posts)I can design goalie masks that the puckhead Bettman can outlaw.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)While you're designing the goalie masks?
Harker
(17,912 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)I haven't watched that movie in years.
Nicely done, Harker!
debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)It sounds like Elf Harker will be bypassing the Rob Ray Rule as well
debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)Harker
(17,912 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)And I have another 12 cup carafe of non caffeinated coffee brewing as well.
All the coffee mugs have been cleaned and sanitized and ready to be used.
Niagara
(11,876 posts)I'm going to see if your little work shed can get an expansion
Harker
(17,912 posts)and while I have to see Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat wearing Red Wing colors while my Hawks try to rebuild around Bedard --- a little burlesque helps pass the time.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Okay, back to work!
Niagara
(11,876 posts)Sanity Claws
(22,419 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)had an get run over by a reindeer. Also, you must include Rudolph in the Reindeer games. TY
patphil
(9,137 posts)I hear they have a summer conference in Hawaii where they elfstorm toys for the next season.
Note: my daughter told me about the conference in Hawaii.
debm55
(61,074 posts)the spring. Do you have any skills for making toys now????
patphil
(9,137 posts)And I'm very good at taking them apart also.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Lunabell
(7,309 posts)I especially would love to test new video games!
debm55
(61,074 posts)meet with Santa's standards and it pisses him off.
Lunabell
(7,309 posts)I used to collect Barbies and would love a full sized hobby horse!

debm55
(61,074 posts)Jeebo
(2,560 posts)That way, I would have an opportunity to catch up on my reading.
-- Ron
debm55
(61,074 posts)busy. After Christmas you can be the Maytag repair man. and read to your heart's delight. Is it a deal?
AKwannabe
(6,896 posts)To care for the reindeer!
Happy Christmas
debm55
(61,074 posts)electric_blue68
(26,985 posts)My mom taught me decades ago to tie extra ribbons with loose ends at the center where the ribbons cross. Then you take the bunt edge of a scissor and run the each ribbon fast over it.
It turns the ribbons into longish corkscrews. So pretty! You can vary the length, mix thicker, and thinner ribbons.
debm55
(61,074 posts)electric_blue68
(26,985 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)not stepping in the reindeer's golden apples.
jmowreader
(53,273 posts)Someone has to buy all the raw materials, get them delivered to the North Pole without anyone knowing, receive children's gift requests from millions of department store Santas, coordinate the magic that makes exactly the right number of each toy by December 24, order enough coal so bad children and cold Army intelligence analysts can all have some, have Santa's sled loaded so the toys that are going to be put under trees first go on last...good little boys and girls don't realize just how big a logistical nightmare Santa's Workshop really is!
debm55
(61,074 posts)the field. Very good.and welcome to the team.
jmowreader
(53,273 posts)Lets face it, not everyone can be a dentist - and many of our elves want that job. Elves arent born knowing how to make toys, and you just know the casualty rate there around December 22 is appalling.
debm55
(61,074 posts)elves will switch jobs from the reindeer crew. Thanks.
Tell them Santa sent you. I think we have some loafers here and you seem to be be able to have them get their asses in gear.
jmowreader
(53,273 posts)I think I'm gonna have to go full Gunnery Sergeant Hartman on those slackers...
"NO! You can't be in the candy cane department any more! I don't care that none of you like to work in the stuffed animal department, we have three million teddy bears and four million stuffed dogs to make in six days and they're not going to make themselves, so put that fifty-pound bag of sugar back on the pallet and follow me!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN you loaded all the presents for Boston first and all the presents for San Diego last? You know Santa always flies east-to-west. Take it all off right now and load it right! I don't care if it takes all night to do it, it has to be done!"
"First prize in this month's toy manufacturing contest is a new Cadillac. Second prize is a set of reindeer steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."
"Please tell me that when you made the mold for the Elf on the Shelf surveillance devices you didn't stick Hermie in a box and pour concrete around him. How's he going to breathe in there?"
debm55
(61,074 posts)but remember this is a happy place--sort of like Disneylahd. But I do understand you might have to kick some butt. These are new elves don't be too hard on them. They will learn.
Layzeebeaver
(2,287 posts)And I would be indeeepentant!
debm55
(61,074 posts)located. Do you by any chance know of a dental hygienist
?
Phentex
(16,713 posts)Ive got years of experience and I know what Barbie was made for.
debm55
(61,074 posts)is a very popular doll. You will be busy. I hope you are up to it.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara
(11,876 posts)
On this homemade bar ...I have both regular and decaf coffee to go, there's also hot water in an electric kettle for both tea and hot chocolate drinkers with various tea bags and hot chocolate mixes. Oh yeah!
Unfortunately there's no chairs available for elves to be able to sit around and take a break. I'm not certain, but it's possible that Elf Harker might have broken a chair or two during the burlesque show.
debm55
(61,074 posts)great. Thank you, Elfette Niagara.
Niagara
(11,876 posts)He doesn't remember it, but Elf LuckyCharms made this coffee bar last year.
It's all our pleasure, Debbie!
debm55
(61,074 posts)Niagara.
debm55
(61,074 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)third shift to get to work. Do it elves!!! Loungers, thanks for your help. We will let this drop. We will be their Christmas eve for the the children and adults. One last thing, has anyone seen elf Harker. H--A--R--K--E--R!
Niagara
(11,876 posts)I only saw their backside so I can't be positive who it was.
debm55
(61,074 posts)Hell, I have seen Santa take a couple of tokes himself.
Niagara
(11,876 posts)It looks like Santa lost some weight and he needs to increase his bakery goods intake to fit back into his suit.
debm55
(61,074 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,290 posts)Coupling that with my time in the tower back in the day, probably route planner? Or maybe one of the team that plots it all out?
Or just one that builds nice boxes. I can do that pretty well.
debm55
(61,074 posts)the last one you? For a very "personal" and mean reason Elf Debbie doesn;t post of said OP posts; It was a weak after my died / That poster on santa nasty list.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,290 posts)debm55
(61,074 posts)happybird
(5,400 posts)Baked Goods and Candy Division
(which includes Hot Cocoa and festively-flavored coffee creamers, of course)
Niagara
(11,876 posts)I already have this homemade bar set up with regular coffee and decafe coffee, hot water is available in electric kettles for hot chocolate and various tea's. I added spiced apple cider as an option yesterday.

I have clean and sanitized mugs that have been ran in the dishwasher at 170F set out and ready to use.
We absolutely could use a baked goods or a candy station. I have a feeling that the elves would be super excited about seeing either one of these options. There might be some extra homemade bars available in the attic.