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

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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?

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Mybestusername · 08/09/2023 13:06

A weeding knife.
Another year, a new kettle.

Unsurprisingly, we're now divorced.

bluestar5 · 08/09/2023 13:07

A three pack of super glue 🤔

VaddaABeetch · 08/09/2023 13:08

A weighing scales so I ‘could keep an eye on things’. I was 8 stone

my favourite he had come into a lot of money, high 6 figures. On my birthday I was looking after his 10 year old son as he was organising a big surprise for us. The big surprise was that he bought a 60k watch for himself.

The poor kid, not even a bar of chocolate. I took the child out for a pizza.

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 08/09/2023 13:11

When I stayed over at a BF's place I'd sometimes borrow a pair of his socks or a shirt to wear around the flat. For my birthday he bought me men's socks and a men's office-type shirt 🙄He was an idiot.

Foggyfoggyfoggy · 08/09/2023 13:14

When I had 1 of our dc the same dh bought me a sack of potatoes.. Because you know I had more to feed now.

ChaToilLeam · 08/09/2023 13:17

A shower gel from TK Maxx that smelt like lavvy cleaner. An absolute JUMBO bottle of the vile stuff.

ThirtyThrillionThreeTrees · 08/09/2023 13:30

An airfryer (when they were really popular) because HE wanted one. He knew I didn't.

Ex now.

PuttingDownRoots · 08/09/2023 13:39

An iron. He thought it was funny. (It was actually for him... the joke was wrapping it up as a present).

His humour can be a bit misplaced sometimes and his was told off by his mother (who was there).

Summerhillsquare · 08/09/2023 13:42

Ironing board!

I still married him 😭

Cas112 · 08/09/2023 13:43

ThirtyThrillionThreeTrees · 08/09/2023 13:30

An airfryer (when they were really popular) because HE wanted one. He knew I didn't.

Ex now.

Sorry but that's a great present

I hope you tried it and now realise how fab they are😂

fiddlesticksandotherwords · 08/09/2023 13:55

He once bought me a book he'd already bought me before. I didn't have the heart to tell him!

JellyComb · 08/09/2023 13:57

Love my husband very much and he does think hard about presents and spends lots of money on them. However he has horrendous taste sometimes.

I got a stiff, formal, Officey handbag when i had just had a new baby and was about to be a SAHM for the next 4 years. And it was Radley, which i loathe.

And a colourful fused glass square bowl thing that was all purples and reds (our house is creamy / tan and pale green.

Bless him. The bag was returned for a slouchy one and the bowl thing was smashed 'accidentally' in a move. There are many more examples of this too.

SooperOuting · 08/09/2023 14:00

When I was 20 my then boyfriend bought me a travel iron. I was outraged

Not a bad present when I look back on it and quite thoughtful as he’d been on holiday with me and knew how irritated I got by creased clothes.

Not a great gift for a 20 Yr old from a boyfriend tho 😂

Surgarblossom · 08/09/2023 14:07

A set of knives

HotMess21 · 08/09/2023 14:08

An ex got me a popcorn maker for Christmas. He knew that I hate popcorn 😣

Pebblesflintstoneandbambamrubble · 08/09/2023 14:15

Years ago I had a boyfriend who refused to get a job

Could get a job was healthy etc,just refused to get one (in his head he'd have to pay his rent so he'd be worse off-logical)

So that meant he was on the dole-didnt have much money (what did I see in him?I don't care about money,it was the attitude)

He also lived 36 miles away from my home town

Anyway,we'd been in a hippy shop,near to where he lived and I spotted a ring

It was gorgeous,so 'me' and I went to buy it-was told 'no,I'll get it for your birthday'

OK,no worries,I can wait 10 days or so

He came over on the day,cluching a box-i was so excited

It was a bracelet (I don't wear bracelets) made out of shitty seashells-he was dead proud of the fact it had cost him 70p ('my' ring was £30) so he'd saved £29.30 (id even paid his bus fare to get to mine-it saved the moaning)

I was 'ungrateful' apparently and when I went back to the shop a week later,it had gone

I still morn that bloody ring and he's an ex

JackieQueen · 08/09/2023 14:30

On a significant birthday he bought me a birthday card with Marjorie Dawes on it and when you opened it it said "happy birthday you fat git". Lovely.

Redlorryyellowlorryblue · 08/09/2023 14:32

A cheese grater from my BF for my 21st.

The cheese grater is still going strong 20 years later. The BF was an ex soon afterwards.

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justasking111 · 08/09/2023 15:35

Well he's sent the watch back. I've said categorically I want a weeping willow tree which he agrees is a good Idea for the boggy part of our garden. My eldest has ticked every box but he always does. The others leave it to their partners to choose because they're as inept as their father. 😂😂

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Nellieinthebarn · 08/09/2023 15:37

Lawn mower and a food processor, not even a good one. He is my ExH. New DH has never bought me a naff present as yet.

Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould · 08/09/2023 17:00

One year I opened a box all excited as he never bought me anything usually! To find a box of mine pies!!! (I detest them). So that was bad enough, however when I opened the box it contained a Fucking jade goody exercise DVD!!!!! I was raging!! He is defo an ex now btw!!

current partner has bought me some very odd things. A Harry Potter cup and socks for my birthday. A pair of gold earrings he went out and found on Xmas eve as he thought I MEANT it when I said I didn’t want anything (I’ve never worn gold in my life may I add). Then last year, he asked what I wanted for Xmas. I said a Pandora necklace (so I could add charms…). He bought me a sparky as fooook necklace from its other range, that you can’t add charms on!! I asked him if he minded if I took it back and swapped it for one I actually wanted. He was ok about it, said he had a feeling I wouldn’t like it.

For my 40th he didn’t even get me a card… however at the end of our meal he got down on one knee and proposed with a stunning ring that had been engraved with “since 1998” inside

Syndulla · 08/09/2023 17:06

A toasted sandwich maker. I'd mentioned two months previously that I quite fancied a toasted sandwich and that was his inspiration.

It's my birthday next week and yesterday I accidentally found the bath bombs he has bought me. They are shite ones from Amazon and I haven't had a bath in months as I only get time for quick showers.

DarkPsy · 08/09/2023 17:13

Himself, covered in whipped cream and cherries.

Sounds appealing right? Picture a skinny, 6 foot, 20 something man as pale as a ghost, laid on a sticky bed with rapidly melting cream collecting in his nether regions followed by glacé cherries. About as sexy as turd.

Daisyislazy · 08/09/2023 17:15

Some of these are hilarious

DisforDarkChocolate · 08/09/2023 17:18

Tickets to see West Side Story, it was a deal that included coach travel that set off without time to eat an evening meal. I fell asleep and only woke up with the gunshot. I decided to get divorced. I have never mentioned wanting to see it, he loves it. Bastard.