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What's the worst birthday present your OH has bought you

218 replies

justasking111 · 08/09/2023 10:12

I've just asked my OH politely to return my birthday present. He sulked a bit but will do. It's the first time I have done this.

So am I alone?

OP posts:
Needanewnamebeingwatched · 08/09/2023 10:56

My exhusband bought me a shelf...a wooden shelf

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justasking111 · 08/09/2023 11:50

thaisweetchill · 08/09/2023 10:41

A tax disc holder for my car... this was after the rules changed and you no longer needed to display your tax disc.

Unbelievable.😲

OP posts:
Original poster
justasking111 · 08/09/2023 11:51

Needanewnamebeingwatched · 08/09/2023 10:56

My exhusband bought me a shelf...a wooden shelf

Why, just why?

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ComfortablyNumbed · 08/09/2023 11:56

Nanasueathome · 08/09/2023 10:21

Mine bought me a bottle of Tweed perfume
Because that was what his mother liked

I'm so sorry but that made me laugh out loud.

MNetcurtains · 08/09/2023 11:59

saltrocking · 08/09/2023 10:27

A car. With money he'd taken from my savings without my permission. That was older than my me, no seat belts in the back, it was a big Old Ford Granada!. This was in 1999.

I don't drive.

Also had a second hand hoover one year.

Favourite was the pic and mix that had melted in his work bag.

😳😳😳

CattingAbout · 08/09/2023 12:01

Mine only ever buys me what I ask him to. If I don't come up with something though I genuinely don't think he'd get me anything.

MNetcurtains · 08/09/2023 12:02

A (very expensive) voucher for electronic liposuction type thing.

He kept prompting me to use it as it had cost a lot of money. It's been in the back of some cupboard (not really sure where exactly) for several years now.😑

dontforgetme · 08/09/2023 12:04

A fucking casserole dish.

Minikievs · 08/09/2023 12:05

It's a toss up between oven gloves, and an own brand air tag (for me to put in DS's school bag apparently 🤷‍♀️) Confused

Lilithlogic · 08/09/2023 12:10

An iron, he is my ex now

Einevinefine · 08/09/2023 12:11

Fire extinguisher for the car and an ice scraper

🙄

Foggyfoggyfoggy · 08/09/2023 12:13

The year I had already told dh I was leaving after Christmas I said no gifts as we weren't together as far as I was concerned.. He got me a car stereo system. I got him nothing.. He was enraged..
Even more so when I did actually leave him!
Worst gift off him was a bike. I was 5 months pregnant..

itsmyp4rty · 08/09/2023 12:22

A brass thing that tells you the time around the world.

Pebblesflintstoneandbambamrubble · 08/09/2023 12:24

Toothpicks

I shook the present,and asked if it was earrings

'Maybe' came the answer-complete with a wink

All excited,i left it till last

Fucking toothpicks...

ToxicPositivity · 08/09/2023 12:25

Giant swarovski earrings, they look like something from a kids lucky dip. I normally wear small diamond studs.

I ended up with just a mug for my 30th. My proper present genuinely fell through but still...

he asks every year if I'd like a new hairdryer. I dry my hair about twice a year!

Anni1234 · 08/09/2023 12:26

Some art supplies so we could all create artwork for the wall together that I had to organise myself, with the kids who hate being creative, and as nobody else was bothered I’ve done my bit and it’s sat there unfinished ever since.

AuContraire · 08/09/2023 12:32

A night away in a hotel, just the two of us, when I had a breastfed newborn and no family nearby to babysit even if he would take a bottle.

It went to waste, obviously, and I was raging at the thoughtless stupidity and waste of money.

That wasn't even something he'd buy me pre-children so I do not know what possessed him beyond "shit better do something for her birthday".

FoodFann · 08/09/2023 12:35

Oven gloves. He’s my ex now.

MollyRover · 08/09/2023 12:39

A very expensive bathrobe. In his defense, he thought it was silk, like a kimono. It was a beautiful colour on the website and could easily have been mistaken for silk. Just didn't look as good in the cold light of day (and velour). We returned it and bought a watch that I absolutely LOVE.

NaughtyBoyGeorgeMichaelJacksonBrown · 08/09/2023 12:43

Slim Fast.

Wish I was joking.

VeronicaBeccabunga · 08/09/2023 12:44

He's usually a very generous and thoughtful gift-giver.

A fail: a book about the Large Hadron Collider.

Olika · 08/09/2023 12:47

Bruisername · 08/09/2023 10:16

Steak knives

I'm vegetarian

😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏽‍♀️

caringcarer · 08/09/2023 12:51

My exh bought me so terrible birthing presents. A full canteen of cutlery he liked, some candle sticks and once I seem to remember a set of expensive saucepans.

Nutsabouttopic · 08/09/2023 12:53

Not mine but my friends DH has the worst track record for presents.
The Star wars dvd set after they went to see one of the movies which she slept through
A guitar......she has never played a guitar
A pair of walking boots two sizes too small and she has no interest in hiking
A gardening lesson, they lived in an apartment
A manicure voucher, she worked in a hotel spa and got all her treatments free
They were many more but my favourite had to be the device for removing dead skin from your feet......he tried it out before giving it to her to make sure it worked, wrapped it up for Christmas. She opened it to discover that he had not cleaned it out after using it......

MissInterpretation · 08/09/2023 12:57

A George Forman grill. If I'd ever mentioned wanting one, fair enough, but it was a randomly chosen thing from the Sainsbury's clearance shelf.

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