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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:
manchestermaggie · 18/06/2025 09:15

ChaiLarious · 18/06/2025 07:44

You can actually order animal poo to be delivered anonymously online.

Isn't that illegal?

MyKingdomForACat · 18/06/2025 09:12

Dog shit under the car door handle 💩

SortthisoutpleaseJesus · 18/06/2025 09:09

Well it wasn't deliberate but I certainly wasn't worried or disappointed by it.

I am freelance and in Nov 2021 ended up working on a conference for 4 days (Tues-Fri) with this woman who made the 4 days utterly miserable. I have never had this before - usually the people I am put to work with are brilliant. Anyway the nature of our work means spending most of the day in a 1 meter square cabin. I developed the most horrendous flu bug, coughing like a 40 a day smoker, snotty, fevery etc. I had to dig deep and get through the conference, with all her moaning and nit picking and I just thought, well there is no way she hasn't contracted it after sitting literally millimetres from me for 4 days - and she will have it right over the weekend! mwah ha ha ha ha

renovationqueen · 18/06/2025 09:03

I've always thought posting someones phone number on a creepy chat room pretending to be an '18 year old blonde looking for fun' would be great revenge. Haven't done it...yet

takehimjolene · 18/06/2025 08:49

I'd go for a large number of very petty irritations. The sort of thing that can't really be traced to you and just one thing would seem like 'just one of those things' but when little annoying things happen they might start to wonder why. But if they voice this they will seem crazy.

Some brilliant ideas above (love the removal of a small coffee machine part, and leaving 'lost' keys). A few more would be

  • lock windows. leave a small key that looks like it is probably the window lock key, but take the actual key with you.
  • loosen a few screws on any fixtures and fittings that are being left so that over time they fall out and shelves fall off etc
  • sign your ex up to as many mailing lists/phone lists as you can. Signing up for competition websites is a great way to get the number/e-mail address shared far and wide
  • if your ex has left any of his belongings behind, remove small items that he won't notice for ages but will really miss, and won't be entirely sure if he actually left them.
MaryGreenhill · 18/06/2025 08:35

Plant Japanese knotweed in the garden .

Harshreality · 18/06/2025 08:34

Outwiththenorm · 18/06/2025 06:15

Freeze a shit (human, cat or dog - your choice) and when it’s hard use a small grater to grate it all over the house. Carpets, between floorboards etc. (Not my own idea of revenge, I read it somewhere else)

This has killed me 😄

OccultGnuNew · 18/06/2025 08:34

I've read this one on here before and thought it was brilliant.

You need a bag of cheap frozen sausages. Just before you leave hammer them into the ground in the garden. As they defrost the scent will attract animals and they'll dig the garden up looking for the sausages.

Meanwhile you're miles away enjoying your revenge and doing the "mwa ha hah" villain laugh

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 18/06/2025 08:28

My friend found out her husband was having an affair and that the fancy coffee machine he loved had actually been bought by the OW as a gift for him. She removed and hid a small but vital part of the machine rendering it useless but she had plausible deniability and the added bonus of watching him look for it 😂.

Ahsheeit · 18/06/2025 07:55

Create a profile on grnder with his email address and phone number

ChaiLarious · 18/06/2025 07:50

Remove the fuse in any appliance plugs that you can and then super glue it back together so it can't be opened.

If they have a nice lawn, sprinkle seeds on it to spell out something.

Cover their garden in instant mash powder before it's due to rain.

Take all the door handles off or just loosen the screws so they are balanced on but will fall off as soon as they are touched (on the inside of a room).

Spray a sugar syrup mixture along the edges of any external walls inside to encourage ants to try and get in.

If they have an Alexa or any smart speakers make sure you stay connected to it and randomly blast music out in the middle of the night.

Change the netflix password.

Sign them up to mailing lists for things so they get hounded with calls.

ChaiLarious · 18/06/2025 07:44

KIlliePieMyOhMy · 17/06/2025 22:34

Pop a poo in a box and post it.

You can actually order animal poo to be delivered anonymously online.

InNewYorkNoShoes · 18/06/2025 07:43

m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7_YuBHoNdg

craycray431 · 18/06/2025 07:41

When I left dickhead ex, I cleaned the toilet with his toothbrush, and switched the batteries (so the '+' side was on the '-') around on all the remotes etc so nothing worked.
A while ago, my awful bullying boss who made mine and my colleagues lives hell got his ph number written on every cash bill I had (used to do cash jobs and this was when all places accepted cash). He had a name that could be shortened (like Nicholas - Nick) and hated being called 'Nick' and used to go apeshit if anyone called him that ('My name is Nicholas, do not call me Nick !') so I made sure I wrote 'Nick' and his number on every bill I paid with.

ErnestClementine · 18/06/2025 07:15

These are excellent! Following in case the perfect one for a terrible colleague pops up.
MN at its finest.

Doncarlos · 18/06/2025 07:00

SleeplessInWherever · 18/06/2025 00:07

I deal mainly in pettiness.

When my ex husband and I separated, he stupidly left me logged into the Hive and Alexa lights.

Sometimes I’d randomly treat him to 9pm bright pink lights. Or turn the heating on full whack when he was at work.

I did also remove a few pieces from his prized built LEGO sets.

I let him watch all but one episode of a series, and then changed the Amazon Prime password.

Revenge was a dish best served mildly irritated.

These are the perfect type of revenge.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 18/06/2025 06:58

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.

You've done at least one of these before haven't you? 🤣

ThreenagerCentral · 18/06/2025 06:43

Put a poo in the toilet cistern. Every time he flushes he’ll get dirty poo water coming down and he’ll have to fish for it to clean it out.

Outwiththenorm · 18/06/2025 06:15

Freeze a shit (human, cat or dog - your choice) and when it’s hard use a small grater to grate it all over the house. Carpets, between floorboards etc. (Not my own idea of revenge, I read it somewhere else)

Figcherry · 18/06/2025 05:47

Loosen the hinges slightly on all doors including kitchen cabinets.

Buy a clock with a call to prayer alarm, set it to 2am and hide it somewhere in the house ( they are very loud).

If you have time get some tester pots and paint all the radiators in rainbow stripes, it will be a nightmare to repaint them.

jinn2025 · 18/06/2025 05:13

Does the house have carpets are hard flooring? If carpets get yourself some cress seeds and pour them all over. Cress grows and doesn’t need watering, they’ll be a lovely bed a cress growing all over the carpets in no time, prawns stuffed behind radiators

sleepandcoffee · 18/06/2025 05:06

Sprinkle packets and packets of stinging nettle seeds in the garden

ChocolateCinderToffee · 18/06/2025 04:55

MrsTerryPratchett · 18/06/2025 01:26

I wouldn’t do this… But it was suggested to me.

Sign up for ALL the spam, junk and nonsense. In their names. Anything demeaning and annoying. Penis enlargement, penguin bollards, timeshares, anyone who will never ever give up.

Double glazing companies, cavity wall insulation, new WiFi contracts, all the annoying spammers who will never ever take you off their contact list.

caringcarer · 18/06/2025 04:54

Sign his email up to junk mail especially penis enlargement, hair regrowth for bald men, incontinence pads. Advertise his watch or Lego collection cheaply cash on collection. Spray paint the word paedophile on his car. Even when he gets it repainted the neighbours will always wonder. Steal his passport and he won't know it's missing until he looks for it to go on holiday and hopefully won't have time to get a replacement. Put a little sugar in his petrol tank.

My exh had interflora on repeat for my birthdays, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Wedding Anniversary, Xmas and anniversary of our engagement. They sent me wonderful bouquets on each of these dates and he paid by pre signed direct debit. After we split I didn't tell him I was still getting flowers. He paid to send me these flowers for almost 18 months and was fuming when he finally realised.

twinklystar23 · 18/06/2025 03:49

Or you could do something nice, such as leaving some toilet roll for the new pirchaser - with his face printed on it.