to think christmas crackers should be banned

[loobeylou]

Because

1. the noise scares the littlest ones
2. they are expensive
3. theres enough to fit on the table on christmas day already
4. the jokes are rubbish and the toys/gifts mostly end up in the bin
5. 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)

1. 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
2. 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!

Sorry. Love crackers. The cheaper the better!

September is it? Tried telling tesco, Sainsbury, Asda that?!

(Actually I was allowing plenty of time to work up an anti-cracker brigade, alas, I seem to be on my own)

I want crackers with the whistle orchestra in them and you must make it your business, EVERYONE, to find them and tell me where. Go, go now.

YABU

1. It's September
2. They are traditional.
3. They are fun
4. Left over ones are great to entertain

children later in the year and it's raining and you're feeeling ill.

1. Cheep ones are the best - very 70's retro

i love crackers! wouldnt be christmas dinner without wearing paper hats and having plastic tat flying all over the room!

kbear, sure i saw some whistle crackers in the studio catalogue?

YABU you can't ban crackers or I'd never have those handy mini-screwdrivers just the right size to open the battery compartments on the DC's new toys or any nail clippers or an atomiser for that matter.
If one of mine cried over a cracker present I'd send them to bed ASAP.

I love crackers-however I refuse to think about them in September!

I make my own and put in a personal gift, last year the men had pewter wine stoppers and the women lovely jewelled bookmarks (dh choses a gift for mine).

yabu
I love them and ds has never cried(when he was younger he is 16 now) as we just give him all the crap anyway.

YABU, they're brilliant! Especially as you get older, when you get proper presents that you appreciate and all that, but it's not, well, useless fun stuff.

YABU. Crakers they are just for fun.

YABU in objecting to crackers.

YAalsoBU in raising a thread about Christmas in September.

Crackers a lovely. The kids get all the crap presents out of them anyway and there is never fighting (or adults just too happy to notice).

When I'm in an orgainsed mood I buy the most expensive crackers I can find in the January sales and remember where i've put them come December.

Thought for a moment I had posted this when I saw the OP's name!

My MIL makes her own and they are great. She puts in little gifts that are personal to each person.