To not want fireworks at home?

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I have always been jumpy with fireworks - I go to displays if I have to, but home ones scare the cr*p out of me. A friend usually does them and I hide inside with whichever child is still young enough to be kept with me (to keep them safe too )

I am tired and can't be arsed to go to a display tomorrow (I will if DD mentions it, I'm not that mean), but DH suggested getting a box and doing them at home.

I panicked and said no way.

He looked at me like I never let him do anything he wants (his Christmas tradition of children opening everything at 3am before parents get up being one of them)

Am I really that unreasonable for not wanting gunpowder etc in the garden when I am scared of it?

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He'll have the kids outside with him though.... I don't trust him, fire, explosives, small children combination (you get the picture)

Nowhere to watch from inside (freakish designed house)

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YANBU- home foreworks are awful and only people licensed should be allowed to operate fireworks at all imo

we just get sparklers for the garden. (don't get the coloured ones they smoke like mad)

Not unreasonable at all my dear.

My brother is coming over to do ours on saturday night but there will be 5 adults and 2 kids and our garden is big enough that the girls will be in no danger.

My brother has done fireworks at his house for 2 years now, so have said we will buy them, he can light them! My DH is such an accident-prone idiot, that I really wouldnt like to imagine what would happen if I let him loose with a box and a match! ( I do want him around for the birth of DS)