Christy Heins, of North Aurora, Illinois, shared her exit strategy for getting out of the Elf on the Shelf routine in a hilarious Facebook post on Dec. 3 Dave Quinn is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE.

One rule every elf knows is that they should never, ever, let humans see them. For if they did, Elfland would start crumbling until it disappeared forever. Crooky tried to stick to the rules ...