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Anyone making their own crackers?

Quincy, 3 December, 2008 at 14:50 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 12

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I've decided to make crackers this year, so I can put additional little gifts inside - earrings/necklaces for the women and miniature aftershaves for the guys.

So, having gone and bought the gifts I now need to buy the cracker making kit things. I've seen some on Amazon (but with a fiver for delivery) and some on Hawkins website. Are there anymore out there? Ideally I'd like them big enough to fit a miniature alcohol bottle in, but this isn't essential.

I've googled, but a lot of the sites are for wholesale.

Thank you

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hazel · 3 December, 2008 at 15:08
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I read the title and was thinking you meant cream crackers, in which case life really is too short ?

I think MrsJess is?
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Quincy · 3 December, 2008 at 15:56
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? hell no! Although I do get through ALOT of cream crackers.

? I hope Mrs Jess reads this then!
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pootlebug · 3 December, 2008 at 17:31
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The Works do kits pretty cheap and look fine - particularly if you further jazz up with your own decorations, ribbons etc. I'm pretty sure they'd fit a miniature.

If it has to be online, there are tons on ebay if you search 'make own crackers'
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mrs.allym · 3 December, 2008 at 18:57
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You can get a pack from Sainsburys for a couple of pounds, all the stuff in it to make your own, you just add the gifts.
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MD · 3 December, 2008 at 19:04
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Boots normally have them and I'm sure I saw them in Matalan this year
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Quincy · 3 December, 2008 at 21:40
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Wow, lots of places I hadn't thought of!

Thanks all.
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Ellena · 3 December, 2008 at 21:44
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Me too! That would be domestic goddess dedication!
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Ellena · 3 December, 2008 at 21:45
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Me too! That would be domestic goddess dedication!

Just as a thought, would a miniature end up smashed on the floor after a vigorous cracker pull?
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clairegwen · 3 December, 2008 at 21:53
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You can get the kits from the £ shop. The Altrincham £ shop had loads a couple of days ago.
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Quincy · 3 December, 2008 at 21:54
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Ah yes, it could quite possibly end in disaster. Maybe I shall cease searching for cracker kits large enough for a whiskey miniature, and just get my dad something different!
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Spamboule · 3 December, 2008 at 22:30
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I used to make crackers when I was little. We would start saving toilet roll tubes from about October ? and then cut them until they were almost in half so it would be relatively easy to pull apart. I then wrapped them in crepe paper & wrote my own jokes. I dont think we had hats. My mum got the 'bangs' from a party shop in Reading.

Guess that might not be so helpful though ?
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Smelly Boss · 4 December, 2008 at 15:19
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I bought some from ebay, which were quite nice and did not seem so pricey. In the past Tesco have also done the kits but I was fed up with the designs which were always the same.

These were they. Sorry for the long link:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MAKE-YOUR-OWN-DELUXE-CRACKER-14-KIT_W0QQitemZ390013046594QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_Celebrations_Occasions_ET?hash=item390013046594&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
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