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To ask you for your best revenge ideas, real or imagined

206 replies

BonfireToffee · 17/06/2025 21:36

Currently being dragged through the shit by the man buying my hugely abusive STBXH’s house.

As I’m the occupier and my name’s not on the deeds (“it’s my house, I paid for it”), I’ve essentially been used as a ping pong ball between these two gargantuan arseholes.

We finally exchanged today, after more than a year of absolute nonsense—delays, demands, slow drive-bys (complete with evil stares) and renegotiations.

With just under two weeks until we complete and I can finally leave this hellhole, I’m contenting myself with imagining all the terrible but legal revenge I could (but won’t) enact on these two festering boils on the bum cheeks of humanity.

And so to my AIBU: am I being unreasonable to ask you to share with me your most delicious ideas for revenge, whether they’re something you’ve done or something you’ve only fantasised about?

Please, vipers: help me get through the last 10 days in a house I never loved and never thought I’d be brave enough to leave.

PS: No bollocks about living well — I fully intend to after 16 years of abuse, but right now I want to indulge evil thoughts.

OP posts:
twoshedsjackson · 18/06/2025 14:32

This may be an urban myth, but I read of somebody ringing the speaking clock in New York, leaving the phone off the hook before quitting the house.

cheesecakewrestler · 18/06/2025 14:27

Tenant who removed the bath panel, placed a human poo in the void and put the bath panel back on.

outerspacepotato · 18/06/2025 14:15

Lots of good ideas. I would leave the weirdest looking doll I could find in terrible condition with his name on it.

But the thing people seem to get the absolute maddest about is when the ex or whoever did them wrong goes off and lives a nice life without seeming to give them a first thought ever again, much less a second. So I'm going to say Live long and prosper is peak revenge.

ContraryNoodle · 18/06/2025 14:11

When I was fairly young, I lived in a multi residential property with a large communal garden. However, one resident was a massive bully and physically threatening. He had turned everything into lawn, despite pleas to have some flower beds and vegetable patches, plus a space to sit for everyone. He threatened anyone who wanted to actually sit outside and hiked our communal water bill with constantly watering the lawn, even during hosepipe bans. Since I felt unable to directly confront him, I started to pee on the lawn each night several times and reserved the most concentrated piddle very early in the morning for the place outside his flat. I also enlisted a couple of lovely neighbours with female dogs to help ‘water’ the garden. Yellow burnt patches started appearing. One night, another resident caught me and realised what I was doing. He laughed and then also started sprinkling the lawn. An underground resistance formed. After a while of this grassroots movement, most of the lawn started getting very damaged. The tenant’s association complained to the property management who came out to inspect the place and seeing the state of it, decreed it wasn’t kept properly, unsightly and then enforced new use of the communal garden with a large terrace, wildflower section, as well as allocating vegetable patches with no mono culture lawn allowed. We also had a small biotope pond. Someone suggested getting one of those water sprinkling sculptures, when one tenant proposed a little Mannekin Pis figures, all round hilarity ensured.

Dweetfidilove · 18/06/2025 14:05

AmandaHoldensLips · 17/06/2025 22:08

Apply for travel visas with his passport details and tick "yes" on all the boxes asking about criminal convictions, being a member of outlawed groups, doing time in jail etc. He'll never be able to travel to any of the visa-required countries you applied to and will never understand why.

Go to your local fishing supplies store and buy a shit load of maggots. Put generous piles in places like under stairs cupboards, attic, behind bath panels, and in a few days the house will be filled with flies.

Fill a fairy liquid bottle with bleach and write, in huge letters, filthy obscenities in the lawn. The words will take a couple of weeks to fully emerge and will be impossible to get rid of.

Buy tinned tuna in oil and pour the oil in room corners. It will be virtually invisible and will stink to high heavens. Make yourself a nice sandwich with the tuna.

Should I be impressed, or terrified ?

😲😂🤷🏾‍♀️🏆.

LiveshipParagon · 18/06/2025 14:05

CrazyCatLady13 · 18/06/2025 13:55

Carrots smell worse 😁

Cucumbers too, absolutely awful stench

DaimondSpine · 18/06/2025 13:59

I chopped up a chicken breast into cubes and threw some of it behind the staff lockers in a bullying toxic workplace I was leaving . Apparently they got pest control in as they thought a rodent had died behind the lockers the smell was that bad 😂.

1Strawberrycat · 18/06/2025 13:59

@BonfireToffeeIf your married you are entitled to a share of the house

CrazyCatLady13 · 18/06/2025 13:55

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 18/06/2025 03:44

Prise off a kickboard under the kitchen units and put a potato or two under there.

Carrots smell worse 😁

Butchyrestingface · 18/06/2025 13:54

Not read thread yet but I suppose everyone has already suggested the obvious Oldie but a Goodie ones?

  • sprinkling seeds all over the carpets then watering them
  • sewing prawns into the curtains
Mrsbloggz · 18/06/2025 13:52

The urge for revenge is a normal human impulse, even so I think it's better to resist.

MrsSkylerWhite · 18/06/2025 13:52

Argh, can’t find it now but love the poster suggesting an hidden Alexa, set to whisper during the night.

5foot5 · 18/06/2025 13:51

I was given the runaround by a buyer once and had planned a petty revenge of hiding an alarm clock in the house, set to go off at 4am every day.
@BumpyWinds
I did similar to this once to someone, but it wasn't revenge it was by accident.

We were staying in a holiday cottage abroad and, on our last day, had to get up VERY early to drive to the ferry terminal. This was in the days before smartphones so, to set an alarm for the morning, I used the digital alarm beside the bed. It was very loud when it woke us at 5am.

Unfortunately we were well on the way home before I remembered I had left it set to keep going off at that time. I felt sorry for the poor soul who would follow us in to that house and probably go to bed without noticing, maybe after a few glasses of wine, then be woken by that god awful racket at 5am

WordsFailMeYetAgain · 18/06/2025 13:49

ItsMutinyontheBunty · 17/06/2025 23:22

Maybe sign them both up for loads of junk mails/referrals and claim to be the other ‘referring’ them?

Hiding fish is classic. Stink the place out. Really hidden like pp say in the curtain poles or curtain hems. You need to drive them mad searching for it.

Low wattage light bulbs at different watts around the house, so new bloke struggles to see.

Sprinkle itching powder in random places - like your ex’s clothes, on a loo roll you leave behind to be ‘nice’ 😉

Itching powder on the loo roll is probably my favourite!!

WordsFailMeYetAgain · 18/06/2025 13:48

LiveshipParagon · 18/06/2025 10:46

Take the lightbulb out of the loft light. Put a life-size cardboard cutout of someone in the loft, so when they go up there and look around with their torch they'll get the fright of their life. Nothing like heart-pounding terror as revenge.

This is genius!

dancinfeet · 18/06/2025 13:39

holds hands up and admits that I filled my ex husbands favourite boots with a spicy african sauce called Shito. Brown oily stuff with a fish base that tastes better than it looks, but god does it make a mess.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 18/06/2025 13:37

BumpyWinds · 18/06/2025 13:23

Oh, and other things I've heard lately.

If you're leaving behind a microwave, take the plate!

In terms of revenge I have taken, I sent a particularly arsehole neighbour a confetti bomb after they'd kept the entire neighbourhood awake until 4am with an obnoxiously loud party! It came with options to show once opened and I chose "you suck!" 😂

A mate of mine was the one that left. He wouldn’t have a real Christmas tree, they had a really expensive, huge, pre-lit thing she hated. It came in two parts.
She went in the loft, and took the top half.
She left in March as well so it would have taken months, but the visual of him trying to put it together was a joy for us all when she shared it with us.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 18/06/2025 13:34

Leave some Nutella out as snacks.
invite some mice in.
Once they are in, the little bastards don’t want to leave.
This is personal experience, I wouldn’t wish it on any decent person, but on these offenders I’d pretty much invite a circus of mice, if this indeed exists.
And I’m not advocating bringing a dead one in, but if one happens to expire, put it behind a kick board in the kitchen.
I am still mentally scarred from what happened when I had one there, but you know, just for fantasy revenge purposes….

Seagullstopitnow · 18/06/2025 13:34

I screwed his best mate 😇

ToadRage · 18/06/2025 13:29

BreadInCaptivity · 17/06/2025 23:44

When I caught my ex-partner being unfaithful I cut the buttons off every piece of clothing he owned and left them all in a small bag with some thread, a sewing needle and a quiz asking: Who will deal with this mess? A1: Mummy (but I will have to confess I’ve been a shit) A2: OW (pro: can frame ex as unhinged con: will she question why I can’t sew buttons and I reveal myself as a misogynist twit) A3: Myself (but I have to actually do “woman” work and that’s really, really hard for me and btw what’s this little shiny pointy thing actually for?)

You have made my day, this is what I will do if husband ever cheats (not that i think he would) to remind him of all the time I have spent replacing the buttons on his coat or i could replace one button in each white shirt with a bright coloured one.

BonfireToffee · 18/06/2025 13:28

shutupgardenbirds · 18/06/2025 13:25

How about buying him some bull semen?
https://www.goodgifts.org/prize-bull-semen-1

I don’t know why but the caption on this has just sent me 😂

"To breed stronger, disease resistant cattle."

🤣

OP posts:
BumpyWinds · 18/06/2025 13:23

Oh, and other things I've heard lately.

If you're leaving behind a microwave, take the plate!

In terms of revenge I have taken, I sent a particularly arsehole neighbour a confetti bomb after they'd kept the entire neighbourhood awake until 4am with an obnoxiously loud party! It came with options to show once opened and I chose "you suck!" 😂

BumpyWinds · 18/06/2025 13:19

I was given the runaround by a buyer once and had planned a petty revenge of hiding an alarm clock in the house, set to go off at 4am every day.

The only place I could think to hide it though would have likely upset my neighbour, who I liked, so I didn't end up doing it.

It was a young couple buying the house and they were first time buyers, so I'd bought them a bottle of champagne and a card. Needless to say, they weren't left the card and I thoroughly enjoyed the bottle myself on my first night in my new home!

ERthree · 18/06/2025 13:18

These were not me but empty all the food out of the kitchen cupboards other than one tin of beans but don't leave a tin opener. Drive his car to an NCP place in a different town or airport parking garage. Friend drove he cheating husbands car to Manchester and left it there, cost him a fortune.