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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?

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piesforever · 09/09/2023 10:51

Second hand lady shaver though....omg

DisforDarkChocolate · 09/09/2023 10:54

Fushia123 · 09/09/2023 10:49

My tired and stressed out sister in law took her chr regularly to ride on the small railway run by volunteers in her local park.
For her birthday her husband gave her a voucher to spend a day driving the train.

I'd love that so much. I appreciate I may be in the minority though.

ConnieTucker · 09/09/2023 11:01

Mememe1234 · 09/09/2023 09:43

A Saint Laurent handbag that cost a fortune but I don’t even go out so I’ve used it once 😅
Also, I’m pretty tight with money so I just thought it was a frivolous and wasteful purchase. I’d rather get something more practical that I can use regularly.
He also got me a Rolex watch for our wedding anniversary and he has a hernia everything I wear it as he’s worried I scratch it so I never wear it now and it’s collecting dust 🤪 if he would allow it I would sell the watch and get something else. It’s got sentimental value for him as he’s mad about watches. He wanted us both to have a matching watch 😬

Edited

I was going to say on a thread saying worst presents ever, this is surely a stealth brag. But now im not even sure it can be described as stealthy.

ManchesterLu · 09/09/2023 11:06

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.

Haha DP bought me a tub of pick n mix as part of my birthday present this week. I thought it was actually really thoughtful - because he knows I like them, and he knew exactly which sweets to choose, even though we have very different tastes.

Hmmmbetterchangethis · 09/09/2023 11:08

An extra large bottle of Dove shower gel. That was it!

BusySittingDown · 09/09/2023 11:08

An umbrella.

BigHoops · 09/09/2023 12:17

A fifth hand laptop that still had porn files on it. For my 30th. Oh and the restaurant he booked for my birthday surprise was chosen so that he could go and meet his drug dealer halfway through the meal.

He became my ex shortly afterwards 😄 DH has never bought a bad present, mostly because I tell him what I want!

Ihateboris · 09/09/2023 12:25

Really cheap, tacky underwear including suspender belt.

Hollyppp · 09/09/2023 12:51

An electric toothbrush for my 30th birthday.

also my dad bought my mum an iron one year and a towel another year. They are divorced

RicherThanYews · 09/09/2023 13:13

I asked DH to take me to see Swan Lake at the ballet as I love it. I organised it and paid for it myself, arranged a hotel and taxi etc so all he had to do was accompany me. We went and I was having a lovely time when the entire ballet company stopped and came to a deathly pause as my DH was snoring his head off beside me. It was so fucking loud 🤬 I can genuinely say I have never been as embarrassed by anything as I was that day.

Duechristmas · 09/09/2023 13:15

I've done it. He bought me a chain that didn't fit in a metal I never wear. If we'd only been together a year I'd understand but we've been together nearly thirty years!

Fallingthroughclouds · 09/09/2023 13:16

I hate getting presents.

Duechristmas · 09/09/2023 13:16

Ah yes, when we were first together he bought me chocolates, wine and a tea towel. I buy my own gifts now.

BarnacleNora · 09/09/2023 13:38

A tattoo magazine. As in, he'd gone to a newsagents and bought a specialist tattoo magazine for people in the industry or who are heavily involved in the scene. I have tattoos, I like them but not to the extent where I'd be going to conventions or anything and this magazine was technical

Apparently it was to symbolise the fact that he was going to pay for me to get my next one. Well that was in 2014, we've now been divorced for 7 years and I'm starting to think his offer is no longer valid.....

What makes it worse was that was my first Christmas/birthday (they're within days of each other) as a mum so there were SO many things he could have gone for, even just a spa voucher or a hamper of nice self care stuff would have been great! Or new pyjamas or a nice dressing gown since that was what I seemed to live in with my sleep resistant baby! But no, a promise of a tattoo that I couldn't even get until I finished breastfeeding at some undefined point in the future. Nice one Hmm

Ilovelemonandsugarpancakes · 09/09/2023 13:42

A duvet!

mamaduckbone · 09/09/2023 13:53

A book on organic gardening and lots of packs of seeds when ds2 was 2 weeks old. I do love gardening and would have appreciated the gift at another time, but just wanted to throw them at him and ask when the fuck he thought I was going to find the time to plant bloody seeds with a baby permanently attached to my boobs. I didn't - he meant well.

MercyChant66 · 09/09/2023 14:42

I received a FitBit on my birthday this year too...Marginally better than the watch that used health data to work out your possible year of death then provided a countdown to your demise. Called the Happiness Clock - it was supposed to make you value each minute. I kid you not. I think it's still under the bed where I shoved it years ago.

Loafbeginsat60 · 09/09/2023 15:12

Shampoo and conditioner

I mean useful. But birthday??

SomethingBlues · 09/09/2023 16:33

Dog toys was the worst one.

And then my 30th birthday happened two weeks ago and he topped it. He bought me car insurance. Yes I’m still really hurt.

SomethingBlues · 09/09/2023 16:34

And to top it off, my mother also ignored my 30th and got me a quiche. So all in all it was a shit birthday.

Dinobreath · 09/09/2023 16:37

Haha I got that too for mine a fit bit type watch too, told him it wasn't a present to me.
I said it was akin to a white good present 😂

onlyoneoftheregimentinstep · 09/09/2023 16:43

A toddler's three legged stool with a cartoon cat painted on it. I'd commented that it looked cute when we walked past the shop several weeks earlier. If ever I comment favourably on anything now, I always follow up with "But I don't want one"!

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RichTeee · 09/09/2023 17:01

A child's plastic makeup set.

He thought it was real and for some reason also believed you could get allllllll the makeup plus an expanding travel case for £14.99. It wasn't even kiddy makeup that washes off easily, or glitter gloss. It was all just plastic. Plastic eyeshadow pans, a twistable plastic lipstick, mascara cases. Plastic everything.

We had been having a hard year, physically, mentally and financially. I wasn't expecting a present- maybe just a bar of chocolate.
So I thanked him- took it upstairs to "use"; he was thrilled I was happy.

A few years later when everything had turned around for the better I told him (and all our friends) so he gets a regular slagging off for it now *NI if you aren't being verbally abused we don't like you😜

Sodullincomparison · 09/09/2023 17:04

A monkey birthday cake and sparkly heart earrings ( my ears are not pierced).

I was so sad as he had an amazing birthday gift that year.

when I look at the gifts he gets me I wonder if he actually lives in the same house.

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