Beautiful Reusable Christmas Crackers
Happy Crackers offer empty reusable linen crackers, which you can fill with your own zero waste gifts. Choose from a lovely selection of designs. A few are silk, but the rest are vegan-friendly.
Reusable crackers may cost a bit more upfront, but you only buy them once. Instead of spending money every year on throwaway options, you keep your set safe for next Christmas.
Keep Christmas crackers away from small children and pets, due to choking hazards. For cracker gifts (included or homemade), keep toxic foods and plants away from animal friends – read more on keeping pets safe at Christmas.
Why Switch to Zero Waste Christmas Crackers?
Most Christmas crackers contain small plastic choking hazards and are impossible to recycle, due to different materials (millions are thrown out on Boxing Day), they also scare babies and pets, with their loud cracker bangs. You can fill up these crackers with your own zero waste gifts.
Christmas crackers were invented by British confectioner Thomas Smith, back in 1846. While visiting Paris, he came across a sugared almond wrapped in tissue paper, and thought this would be a nice festive way of eating sweets at Christmas time. By 1860, he had added chemically impregnated paper to the crackers, to make a loud bang.
Originally called ‘bangs of expectation’, he was not to know that his invention would become an environmental nightmare.
Where to Find (Clean!) Cracker Jokes
The fun of reusable Christmas crackers is that you get to fill them with your own jokes. You could always copy the famous joke from the episode of The Good Life:
Why is the ooh-ah bird so-called? Because she lays square eggs!
If you’re stuck, here are a couple we like:
My dog is a genius. I asked him what two minus two was. He said nothing.
My boss told me to have a good day. So I went home.
