Because
- the noise scares the littlest ones
- they are expensive
- theres enough to fit on the table on christmas day already
- the jokes are rubbish and the toys/gifts mostly end up in the bin
- they create tensions among the kids over who got what present unless you peek in the ends before the day and write names in them so everyone gets an appropriate gift.(Cunning trick learned from sad experience of child crying when they got nail clippers and grandad got the bouncy ball!)
6.they create loads of rubbish which most people don't recycle
7 whoever makes them is probably very poorly paid (though if they get banned they won't have a job at all, right, so thats a tricky one)
- there are never the right number you need in a box, so you have to buy more than you need, you save the leftovers till next year and can't find any to match so buy more than you need again. The kids end up popping them for the sake of it when you put the decorations away, and the bits get binned
- you wany a colour to match the table decorations, the kids beg for disney ones at twice the price
10.what on earth is the point of them anyway?.
Last year i bought the crackers in the january sales and kept them, they worked fine, but no one is saying do you remember that really good joke or that really neat gift i got in my cracker last year,
so, this year, i don't think i will bother!! Anyone with me? or am I being A Bad Mother, whose kids will be Traumatised Forever!
