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The Mom Room

SOLO: Let's Talk About The Elf On The Damn Shelf

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

EP460. Renee had a mom guilt moment the other day about none other than the damn elf on the shelf. In this episode she talks about that experience, explains the rules of the elf on the shelf (which she didn't realize were so particular). Finally, she talks about the mental load of it all and shares some of the listener's feedback! SPONSORS   Lumen — Go to lumen.me/MOMROOM to get 15% off your Lumen.    Manscaped — Get 20% off + free shipping with the code momroom20 at Manscaped.com    FitXR — Go to Meta.com to purchase a Meta Quest headset with FitXR bundle fitxr.com/bundle Uncommon Goods — To get 15% off your next gift, go to UNCOMMONGOODS.com/MOMROOM.    RENEE REINA   Instagram: @themomroom | @thereneereina   TikTok: @thereneereina   Facebook Community - The Mom Room Community  YouTube: Renee Reina - The Mom Room Podcast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:11.1

Lots of items are heading to school and they're not always necessarily coming back. They're either headed to the lost and found, they're left on the school bus, their friends take them home thinking they're theirs.

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trusted by parents nationwide. Welcome. I was literally just talking to myself because my

1:19.0

microphone wasn't turned on. I was too busy attaching this elf on the shelf to my microphone

1:23.3

stand to remember to turn on my microphone. But anyways, welcome. It is Thursday. I'm actually on my way

1:30.5

back from Florida as you listen to this. If you're listening to this on Thursday, I'm recording this

1:35.3

on Friday before we leave for our Disney extravaganza. We're going to be at the park for a day

1:41.9

and a half. And then we're going to be on the cruise, the new cruise. It's called Treasure. And we're going to be on that for three nights. And I'm so excited we've never been on a cruise before. I don't know what to expect. I have been so stressed about packing and trying to figure out what we need, what we don't need. At the end of the day, you can get anything that you might need at Disney.

2:03.7

So I need to just, like, calm down and remember that all we need is the essentials.

2:08.2

And at the end of the day, if we forgot something, we need something, you can always just get it there.

2:12.9

So that's my mindset right now, just so that I can sleep tonight and not stress about packing so much.

2:20.7

Speaking of packing, I was like, oh, I should bring a pair of jeans shorts because, you know,

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