Every year while growing up, my grandmother {Gam} would bring beautiful Christmas crackers and place them at each table setting on Christmas Day. During dinner, we would pop them open and all the little trinkets would fly out ~ usually a tissue paper crown, a teeny tiny plastic toy of some sort and a little paper with words of wisdom or joke printed on it. We’d go around the table and share our cracker contents and don our flimsy paper hats or crowns.

{Christmas 2003}

Last week as I was killing time in HomeGoods, I spotted some gorgeous crackers with vintage paper ~ 12 for $7.99

{same brand, different design}

Eleven more days and we’ll once again be sitting around the table popping these open.

What about you…does your family have any traditions like this fun one which originated in the UK?

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I have about four different shopping lists swimming around in my giant purse. I need to consolidate them all and get shoppin’! I really am looking forward to the moment when I can exhale, sit, relax and sip a coffee spiked with Kahlua Peppermint Mocha.

How is your holiday hustle coming along?