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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:
MooseBeTimeForSnow · 18/06/2025 03:44

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

SpacedOutOut · 18/06/2025 02:44

Mucky1 · 18/06/2025 00:08

Go onto eBay and buy 200 random old keys and those little plastic 10p key rings
write if lost please call and his mobile number on all the key rings then lose them far and wide!
hide them all over so just when he thinks it’s died down he will get another well meaning call about his key

Love this! 😂 🔑

OriginalUsername2 · 18/06/2025 02:31

summerscomingsoon · 17/06/2025 21:46

was just going to say this 😂

I was also going to say this! Where did we get this from?!

WhatABigYikes · 18/06/2025 02:30

Take the microwave plate with you (the one that spins).

coxesorangepippin · 18/06/2025 02:29

'a nod to the original gaslighting'

👊

Kylie83 · 18/06/2025 02:24

AhTheFuckening · 17/06/2025 22:22

Is there anything that can be done more remotely 😄, asking for a friend.

Send an anonymous bag of dicks in the mail. Just google bag of dicks sent in mail 🤣🤣 or glitter filled cards is another brilliant one.

Imbluedalale · 18/06/2025 02:03

Take one shoe from every pair he has

Take the microwave turntable

Sponsor a pig in his name and name it after him . He’ll get 3 monthly updates on how the pig is doing

Rub sugar and water all over the kitchen counters so there all sticky

Put out a gumtree ad for something ridiculously cheap like a games console or a nice watch and state ‘calls only please’ and put his number on it

Take all the forks

Put prawns behind the fridge . The fridge motor will warm them up in no time and he will think it’s the fridge that smells and will
be too docile to look behind it

Put a shit load of post it’s all over the walls

Throw cheese slices on his car especially whilst it’s hot . The cheese will melt and will be a bigger to get off

Buy one of those fake winning scratch cards and send him a card on his birthday from someone he knows with the scratchcard in .

Buy those fake penalty charge yellow stickers and put them on his car every other week or so

Erm I think I have anger problems 🤣

Chickensky · 18/06/2025 01:47

DiscoDancingDoris · 17/06/2025 22:27

Cut the arses out of his trousers and hang them all back up neatly.

Toothbrush around the bog.

Heating on an app you can control..full blast at all times hes in the house

Pierce his tea bags so he has annoying tea bits in his drink

"Pierce his tea bags so he has annoying tea bits in his drink"

I've never heard this one before and made me laugh. This would make me furious 🤣🤣

Theseboobsweremadeforwalking · 18/06/2025 01:39

For extreme pettiness, replace all the light bulbs with really low wattage shitty ones. A nod to the original gaslighting.

Theseboobsweremadeforwalking · 18/06/2025 01:38

Glitter all over everything especially carpets.
Go to all local jehovas witness halls and give address asking to be called on when you know he'll be in.

Conkerjar · 18/06/2025 01:36

Put his email into any and every ad you get on social media. I've been getting frcking solar panel calls for eons...

PluckyBamboo · 18/06/2025 01:35

Instant coffee in the toilet cistern and tea leaves in the shower head.

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.

Overtheatlantic · 18/06/2025 01:24

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.

I’m crying laughing 😂

Drangea · 18/06/2025 01:22

I’d like to be a mediaeval witch with associated powers. Nothing outrageous but just the ability to cause erectile dysfunction, boils, crows harassing you whenever you leave the house, baldness, crop failure in really extreme situations. Obviously I would never reveal myself so my victims would just have to wonder why their life had suddenly turned to crap in a low key way. Even if they did suspect me, it’s the 21st century! No one would believe I was a witch.

If I couldn’t invoke the supernatural then I’d remember my mum, who once painstakingly took 20 JPS out of a packet, pierced each with a needle in the filter, and replaced them stealthily, so my dad couldn’t get a drag.

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/06/2025 01:00

If one of the selling points is the garden, salt it.

Nothing will ever grow again.

Wreckinball · 18/06/2025 00:43

Loosen the ball cock arm in header tank slightly as you leave, it will break causing a flood from above
ditto waste pipe under bath, may take a while to be noticed
again as you leave cling film over all the toilet bowls!

Heritagehog · 18/06/2025 00:32

Take the bins with you…

BlackeyedSusan · 18/06/2025 00:28

You would need to do stuff that is annoying but plausible rather than stuff that will rebound on you or is dangerous.

Like turning off the water and draining the system. Turning off the boiler. Taking your batteries out of the door bell/heating control. Take anything you have paid for especially in the garden. Collect dud lightbulbs from your friends and family and leave just a few working bulbs. Switch the electric off at the mains. Let the hedge grow. Let the lawn grow. Fill the recycling bin and rubbish bin up.

Heritagehog · 18/06/2025 00:22

Set the central heating on high for 2am - 6am.

Balloonhearts · 18/06/2025 00:16

Huge bag of glitter. Paint glitter is best as it's fine and powdery. Dump through letterbox in dead of night followed by the business end of a leafblower. Wakes them with a fright and they'll be hoovering for weeks.

WalkingThroughTreacle · 18/06/2025 00:14

If only there were websites where you could buy a myriad assortment of creepy crawlies and scatter them in discreet places such as the attic, behind skirting boards, under floorboards, in air vents etc.

https://bugpets.co.uk/

https://www.bugzuk.com/

Home | Bug Pets LTD

Shop the UK's widest range of pet invertebrates at Bug Pets LTD

https://bugpets.co.uk

SleeplessInWherever · 18/06/2025 00:11

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.

Oh! I also gave him the login details for our milk delivery service, didn’t do anything else to help him, and then sat back while he collected milk that he was positively overwhelmed by.

He brought it in the house for 6 months and just left it in the fridge festering, like he’d never encountered a sink or a bin, and so was personally victimised by a milkman delivering him dairy he didn’t need for half a year.

Mucky1 · 18/06/2025 00:08

Go onto eBay and buy 200 random old keys and those little plastic 10p key rings
write if lost please call and his mobile number on all the key rings then lose them far and wide!
hide them all over so just when he thinks it’s died down he will get another well meaning call about his key

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.