Christmas Crackers

cfgs

The gifts have generally gone down hill and the jokes are worse.

The wife does the business though by buying ones that are a game, last year was Taskmaster and this year The Traitors.

Off_it

I got whisky stones in mine, so was well pleased!

Karim_myBagheri

still use my nail clippers that i got in a Christmas cracker 30 years ago. 

sam3110

We got Cluedo ones this year, and played that after dinner

cafcfan

I have a big head. (Yes, I know.) And for the first time ever, this year's crackers actually had hats large enough.  Which was a result. My gift was a pair of tweezers and the joke was:  Q -  Who is Rudolph's favourite pop star?  A - Beyon-sleigh. Mrs Cafcfan's guess was Slade which I thought was better.

Ross

We did make your own this year. They come with a hat and a joke, but you put your own gift in, and then seal them up.

Hal1x

What do you call a vicar on a motorbike?

was a memorable cracker pun!

When my grandad retired he did home working making crackers. I can still remember going to his flat seeing him in his chair surrounded by huge boxes full of toys, mottos, cardboard tubes, hats, crepe paper and the things that go bang (sometimes).

Stig

One of the worse things about Christmas. For the most part awful junk that brings no joy, creates waste and pollution whilst fleecing people of their money. Baa, humbug.

That said I still remember my favourite one. It would have been about 55 years ago and it contained a matchbox toy fork-lift truck. I'd never seen such riches fall out of a cardboard tube before. Thanks uncle!

North Lower Neil

Ross said:

We did make your own this year. They come with a hat and a joke, but you put your own gift in, and then seal them up.

We did that, expect my youngest 'helped' and she forgot to fill half of them.

Made them more entertaining than usual tbf.