... to start my own sh*t birthday present from DH thread?

[liz70]

...Seeing as there seem to be a few knocking around at the moment?

My birthday was on Tuesday. I spent most of it running around after other people - taking DD2 to an appointment, looking after DD3 in the evening while DH had a meet up (optional) after work. So by the time he comes in at 9pm I've been run ragged, getting DD3 fed, bathed, to bed, hanging washing, getting things ready for the next morning, preparing a meal for us etc.

So DH puts my birthday present on the table. A small bag of Thornton's chocolates. Unwrapped.

Now... I don't think I'm particularly materialistic. I try to keep costs down with shopping - groceries are pretty much all supermarket and value brand. I buy most of my and DD3's clothes from George, F & F and suchlike. I don't demand designer hand bags or diamond jewellery.

We're not super wealthy, but neither are we skint - no mortgage, and a comfortable amount of savings.

It seemed to have fuck all thought put into it, and he couldn't even be arsed to wrap it. I did ask if he'd also brought a bunch of flowers from a petrol station, to complete the whole "will this do?" vibe, but no.

I just feel so fucking undervalued and unappreciated right now.

I think I'll just tell him that from now on, don't fucking bother getting me anything for birthdays. I'd rather buy something myself.

That's a dreadful present. Give him a bollocking and put him in the spare toom

My dh is the king at crap present buying. One year I asked him for anything but please no perfume. Obviously he got me perfume and then was pissed off because I wasn't overjoyed. He also got me earrings (I don't have pierced ears) and size 16 lingerie (i am size 10) as he said "it looked like it would fit you".

My birthday was last week. Amongst other things, my MIL gave me a new Dishmatic (washing up jobby which you fill with washing up liquid) because mine was 'looking a bit ratty'. FFS. I have a dishwasher.

I'm sure I've told this before but I was given a slender tone for my birthday by my ex, apparently I could still lose weight despite being lazy

Many, many years ago my husband who was then my boyfriend decided to get me underwear for my birthday. Tbh, I think that's a bit of a crap present because it's more for him than for me, iykwim. Initially when I saw the box I thought he had bought me a specific bra I needed for a dress I had bought a few months before but the only bras I could find to wear with it were very expensive so I hadn't bought them.

Then I opened the box to find the typical black and red lacy things that will be seen in any number of softcore porn movies. Still trying to look enthusiastic I took them out of the box to find the bottoms were size 14, I'm an 8-10 and the bra was a 36C, I'm a 32F.

At this point I was getting insulted so I asked him why he didn't just look at some of my own underwear to read the sizes off the labels. He said he did but the sales woman said 32F couldn't possibly be my size as it was ludicrous sounding. He said he'd bring them back to change them the next day and I told him that he might find it difficult as lots of shops won't change underwear for obvious reasons. He said they better as he'd paid an awful lot for them, he wouldn't tell me how much but it was 3 figures.

I nearly exploded that he'd spent so much on something so silly and hadn't even been careful enough to get the sizes right. He said he went there as his friend worked there and he paid staff prices so he thought he'd get a good price but even with the discount it was so expensive, but when he was at the till he was too embarrassed to admit he didn't want to spend so much.

I was feeling sorry for him when something occurred to me. His 'friend' who worked in an underwear shop was his most recent ex. And yes, she was the one who told him that I was not a 32F 8-10 but a 36C 14.

DP has a habit of buying gifts that somewhat benefit him! For Christmas I got a waffle maker (I do love cooking but he loves eating them!), a salad spinner (?!) and sexy underwear.

To be fair I got an engagement ring for my birthday but I can't help feeling I got done out of a present somehow there! (I'm not really ungrateful - it's beautiful)

Springer, and you MARRIED him??????!!!!! After he went to get his ex-girlfriend to help him choose you underwear, and agreed with her that your arse was two sizes bigger and that your tits weren't all that?

I gave dh a whizzy-milk-frother thing in his stocking last Christmas. He only drinks espresso. I, on the other hand, like lattes. I thought it would make his life easier, as he's the one who always ends up making them.

I got a joint birthday and Christmas present from dh the year DC2 was born. My birthday is mid November and I had to wait for Christmas. I was a little excited on the big day. A fucking roof rack.

An ex once got me a holyoaks calendar. But the girl version. He told me that it was a present we could both enjoy. I could aspire to look like the girls in it which would make us both happy.

My oldest friend's birthday is 10 days before mine. She lives abroad, and for several years I used to get a box full of what can only be described as oddments. They were clearly things she'd received, not wanted, and decided to send to me. I got several dolls with pottery faces, of the kind you decorate a room with if you have no taste AT ALL, cheap bubble bath, a pack of fancy paper serviettes chosen to match her own sitting room rather than mine, cheap plastic handbags . . . In the end, I said that since the postage was so expensive, it might be better to forget about presents.

I've not had a birthday present from my wife since my 30th. I'm now 47.

I get random cheap shit from the kids which I look suitably pleased with.

I was 20 and Bf of 2 months was going to Paris with work for a week.
He told me he would bring me somethong back and i had thoughts of pretty french perfume or decadant chocolates.

He brought me love eggs.

Enough said

Aged Relative - I would NOT have been happy.

Got a size 18 baggy shapeless nightshirt for Christmas from a relative the year I lost weight and was a size 10.

For my birthday one year, another relative bought me another baggy shapeless nightshirt (it must be something about me) that I later noticed in the shop window for £2.50. Worse, her mum worked in that shop, so it was probably even less with staff discount! I'm worth it, me

We don't do presents anymore. We go away for a short break somewhere.

there's only so much crockery a woman needs

But Izzy, what's not to love about strutting around with a pair of weighted plastic egg thingies jiggling about in yer fanje?

Dj always leaves Christmas present buying to the dying moments of Christmas Eve. He knows that I've always loved Stevie Wonder so he went tearing into HMV as it was about to close; no Stevie Wonder CDs left so he bought an 'best of' Michael Jackson because they're, you know, kinda similar...

God, I buy nicer presents than this when I go to dinner at someone's house.

I note there is a poster named AlpacaPicnic (oh I just got that!). I once got my bff an alpaca picnic as a birthday present.

My DH is normally pretty good with pressies. I usually give him a few ideas of what I may like, usually related to what every hobby I am most into at that time. Last year for Mothers Day I wanted compression socks, and I got compressions socks. For my birthday I wanted IOU's written out by hand (we were skint, so I got a small token pressie and IOU's) I got the IOU's. We have yet to actually cash them out lol. I am not bothered

What really pissed me off was at Christmas. In October/November he suggested a Magic: The Gathering seasonal box. It's a storage box for the cards, dividers, and some booster packs. It's cool, I was collecting and learning the game at the time. I said it sounded cool. He spent weeks telling me he was getting something "really cool" to go inside the box as a surprise. He really kept bigging it up, I was going to love it, he spent weeks getting it, I was not to open any post in his name etc.

I did similar for him, he got a black leather deck box, card covers, extra boosters and a play mat.

His super cool awesome "surprise" in my box?

15 cards (albeit rare and sought after cards) for a part of the game I have never played, do not know the rules of nor have any intention of playing.

They are still in the box somewhere in my room.

My DH brought me a red iron for Valentine's Day!!

My father was the king of shit presents. I vividly remember him buying my DM a very cheap man's razor for her birthday and then he followed it up with a bottle of aftershave for Xmas. He didn't bother to wrap either and couldn't fathom why she was offended

At risk of outing myself, my boss tells stories of a truly crap present buying ex. Apparently he produced a socket set one Xmas with the proud announcement that it was a particularly impressive brand (I know nothing of socket set branding). She also tells of the Christmas morning that she opened a steam cleaner as she had mentioned that one would be useful for the curtains. Apparently the rest of her family sort of backed away when they realised what he had done.

She speaks of him with great affection. God knows why!

As for DH's presents, I try to get stuff like toiletries
COOKING UTENSILS AND HOUSE CLEANING EQUIPMENT ARE NOT, I REPEAT, NOT APPRECIATED AS "BIRTHDAY PRESENTS

Men DO NOT want toiletries as presents, and if you buy then that,dont be surprised if they return the favor with kitchen utilities Learn't that from experience. Duoh!

Oly5 Thu 08-Sep-16 20:06:09
That's a dreadful present. Give him a bollocking and put him in the spare toom -a bit harsh

For my 19th birthday, my boyfriend at the time got me a card that said 'for my darling wife' on the front. He hadn't even noticed! He also bought me some really cheap 'jewellery' in the form of a multicoloured florescent choker. Needless to say the relationship didn't last!

My mil once bought me one of those wire things you put in a kettle to prevent lime scale! Think that was for Christmas.