Christy Heins, of North Aurora, Illinois, shared her exit strategy for getting out of the Elf on the Shelf routine in a ... post on Dec. 3 — attaching a letter Santa had written that told ...

The Elf on the Shelf returns home to the North Pole on ... If you don't have the counter space for a lengthy message, a goodbye letter handwritten on some festive stationery will do the trick ...