Should I bin my friend's art?

I have a friend that expects us to buy her hobby projects and they are shit.

I still get accused of being a bad friend for not supporting her business.

Pics or we can’t advise.

Assuming it’s not giant / as creepy as the friends one - could you put it on a gallery wall with a nice eclectic mix of things in a guest room?

otherwise just put it up in your room / a hallway for a while + then bung it in the loft and say your rotating as some PPs have suggested

Ah I can see how many posters have never seen friends. 😂 I would love an original Buffay as I'm into weird art.

Sorry OP I can't advise. Once you have moved she might not mention it and if she does just say you haven't decided on where to hang things yet. Will buy you some time x

Put it in your new loft.

Every time she comes round you earnestly explain that you still haven't found the exact right spot for it. If you want to embellish, you can say you're waiting for the house to give you the right vibe.

Then after, say, ten visits from her you can either sadly say that the painting got nibbled by mice OR say that the house told you that it needed the painting to watch over the loft as it was warding off the evil spirit that was residing there.

🤣🤣🤣

stares grimly into the distance

"I think you KNOW why we can never forgive you, Brenda. No! Not another word! Nothing can take away the stain of WHAT YOU DID!"

turns on heel and legs it away without minging picture of ducklings

Does your friend have an identical twin?

I saw a video on Instagram where a girl had painted something for her mum and saw it at the charity shop, so she bought it and gave it back to her for Christmas again 😂

I suppose so - on that basis, you can see how it might be a painful memory. And we did get what we thought was an absolute bargain, so I don’t know why I’m judging; we didn’t have to buy it after all! It just seemed sad and a little mercenary, I suppose. But you’re right - I don’t know what prompted it.

I think I would just not hang it on the wall in the new place and hope she either doesn't notice or is too polite to say anything about it.

You will need to have an excuse ready in case she does ask. "The frame got smashed in the move and I haven't had a chance to have it reframed yet" if you've stashed it in the loft, or "It got lost in the move and I didn't like to say anything" if you've binned it. And then hope that she doesn't do you a new painting to replace the "lost" one.

What I wouldn't do is keep up with your current charade of putting it on the wall every time she comes round, or hurt her feelings by telling her directly that you don't like it.

She’s mine, no no she’s mine!!!!

I would keep it, probably in a cupboard, but tell her I was rotating my pictures if she ever asked about it.

For the rest of your lives you need to say that you have firm boundaries and can never forgive her for whatever she did. If you can’t think any something she’s done you will find loads of inspiration on AIBU.

All the gifts that aren’t to my taste are go straight to my office, which is a no go zone for visitors, a.k.a. secretly in a box in the loft. What the eye can’t see the heart can’t grieve for.

That picture is quite terrifying. A bit Death Becomes Her. Could you construct a kind of double sided frame so you turn creepy woman outwards when your artistic friend visits?

Oh God, this is my nightmare.

SIL is an "artist" and we used to live in terror of being given one of her masterpieces. Luckily she hates us, so I don't think it'll happen. Must make sure we don't accidentally reconcile.

I think you would be justified in saying you had a terrible nightmare where it came alive and you were so freaked out you've decided to take it down for a bit.

Stick it in the toilet if need be.

That's even more disrespectful than just binning it and it will take a lot of flushes to fully go!

Your friend went to all the effort of making you something with love and you have nowhere to make a home for it. Not even a spare room?

You could say the eyes started blinking so you sprinkled holy water on it

I was just thinking about this😂

OP, I don't think I could bin the painting if a friend had put a lot of time and effort in to making me something they thought I'd love. I think I'd just put up with the faff of putting the picture out every time she comes, assuming she's not over every day!
If you want to use the frame for something else you can always put the gift picture in a different one and say you thought it looked nicer in there etc etc.

Offer to give it back to her. Most artists would prefer to have their work back than thrown away. I would.

I l outing disagree more. I love it. But though I've received many things that aren't my style and haven't kept them all I love the sentiment and prefer it to just stuff tbh.

Do u have a downstairs loo or utility room it could go in?

You cant really bin it. Hang it in the spare room or say it got lost in the move, or say a visitor admired it and wanted it so you gave it to them. An old lady who didn't have much.