To ask what is the worst Valentine's Day present you've ever received?

[BackInBlack78]

Just this!

A dozen red roses, expensive chocolates and a gold necklace.

Sounds romantic right?

Nope, gifts from the stalker I had as teenager. Frightened the life out of me, the card had a poem that he'd written about how we would be together forever and he'd never let me go.

All the Valentine's displays in the shops still give me the creeps all these years on!

Recieved nothing, witch is an improvement on the mop and bucket combo i recieved when pregnant with his first son 6 years ago

There is something worse than nothing.

ExH NEVER did Valentine's day. Ever. We were together for 12 years. During our split (still living together while both in the process of finding new places to live) we went out to do a food shop and he disappeared leaving me with the trolley, 3 kids and no money. I found him choosing a Valentine's card and present for OW. He even had the gall to ask for my opinion on whether to buy a lingerie set or roses to go with the bottle of champagne he'd chosen. Cunt.

My worse Valentine's gift was a wash basket :( I'd been talking the week before about buying a new one. Was making do with an old pop up which was half broke
Practical but definitely the worse.. romance was definitely dead in that relationship

I have received a gorgeous bunch of roses - lovely, absolutely love them!

Plus an owl teapot.
It is a wizard owl.
It is painted in bright clashing colours.
It has garish orange piercing eyes that follow you around the room.
I suppose I'll grow to like it

Not sure why all the fuss about Valentine's Day....
It's another excuse /over commercialised day to sell a load of meaningless tat...

My husband is an amazing gift giver, he is pretty metrosexual so tends to show his girly side at times like Valentines. Last night he presented me with a huge card, flowers & chocolates as he was leaving early this morning. My first thought (that I thought but didn't say) was that I already had flowers from my birthday last weekend and I didn't want chocolates as I'm on a diet - then I decided I was an ungrateful cow and said thank you. Poor bloke - he's cooking me dinner tonight and making tiramisu from scratch as it's my favourite, sod the diet then!!

We only do cards, which is fine with me. I went to M&S earlier, cashier was telling me there was a queue of fellas waiting for them to open up at 8am to buy their cards etc. this morning.

I would love that teapot! I love kitsch stuff like that.
I don't like roses.But I love daffodils.Everyone close to me knows this.Every year exh would give me red roses.All I wanted was a few bunches of daffs. I couldn't complain as it would seem ungrateful.But it used to really bother me, as it was indicative of how little actual thought he put in to our marriage.
This year I've put myself a tenners worth of daffs and I'm very pleased with them

A chinese cook book from the pound shop from an ex. I can't stand chinese food but he loved chinese food. His grand idea was for me too make us a meal from the book. When I pointed out I can't stand Chinese food, he retorted back " oh so you're not going too make me anything from It then? "

I broke up with a boyfriend on Valentines day before. In my defence he had it coming and said he would have got me a card but needed to borrow a fiver from me first
Went home and DM had takeaway and a giant box of malteasers ready for me

My first serious boyfriend that I met at school and was with for a while at uni was always very romantic, sent beautiful flowers, wrote me long letters etc. Then one Valentines I got some half dead carnations....I wasn't surprised when he dumped me that same weekend!

A boyfriend at school. I wasn't that keen on him. He sent me a GIANT card through the school Valentine's Post. The envelope and card were covered in little poems and limericks and kisses and so on. I was mortified. We'd only been going out a few weeks and I really hadn't decided how I felt about him. It was awful. And I had to open it in front of the boys who were bullying me as well.

I spent the next 4 months figuring out how to dump him without hurting his feelings. Realised I couldn't so did it callously anyway. I should have dumped him after the valentines card and saved everyone time really

My OH bought me an ex rental copy of the Simpsons movie and buy one get on free chocolate heart lollipops from blockbusters. We don't bother with valentines day now.

nigel I got daffodils (and tulips) for valentines, not a roses kinda person. Actually not a valentines type of person at all. Dp will have to be content with a card and dinner.

NotJanine , I might be wrong but sounds like you're possibly feeling a little low. Sorry if I've got it completely wrong but if not:

Be your own valentine, be selfish, do something indulgent or that you wouldn't easily or ordinarily be able to do in a relationship. Sit at home in your pants tonight, watch a trashy film and eat cake. Then smile smugly that you answer to yourself & can do whatever the f you want.

Not from dp but his mum in our early days - His cousin was a florist and dp had asked his mum to organise some roses to be sent to me... Me not expecting anything as he was still in college then was shocked to get my 1st ever flower delivery.

Only when I went to put them in the vase I noticed they had been spray painted a weird silver colour across the stems, like shed lined them up and just done a big line of spray paint across, only when I looked closer the spray paint was actually badly disguising sellotape. yep, they had all been broken and sellotaped back together again.

I didnt mention it at the time but it came out years later how they had been sellotaped, dp was gutted and told me he'd given his mum £25 to pass on for the flowers - mil kept it herself.

Apart from one ex, who was quite romantic (but obviously not romantic enough to, you know, stick around) Valentine's Day has been unremittedly shit every year.

This year - no exception. So a girlfriend and I had a coffee and bitched about our unrealistic expectations.

I shall be eating cake later.

cats mother thanks, very kind of you.

I have an evening at the gym planned - me and lots of other single people I think! Punchbag may take a battering

Nothing. Not even a thank you for the card and expensive chocolates I got him. Grr.

Nothing most years but I get him nothing. Conversely we are still very much in love after 20 years and 2 kids. We buy each other things sometimes throughout the year. He's never been a flower buyer, only the odd anniversary, my 40th and once to say sorry but that's in 25yrs. I've had friends with very demonstrative husbands that have strayed or the relationship is no longer. It's not a measure of a good relationship.

A really odd, odd mouse ornament from a guy I went on one date with and then he proceeded to be a stalky fucker overly attentive every time he saw me, despite me telling him in words of one syllable that I wasn't interested.

Then he presented me with The Mouse. In a box that was roughly ring sized. In the uni bar. To be fair, I was fairly relieved it was a mouse.

Nothing today for me :-( difficult as he is currently in England and
I am in France. He left yesterday and I snuck his gift into his bag before he left. I wouldn't have minded but when speaking to him half an hour ago he advised me he was dropping off something his adult son had requested that his mum wanted from France (food related not valentines obvs!). So DH has gone out and bought this for his ex but didn't even have time to get me a card.

A vibrator. Today. Off my husband of 14 years. Makes me feel very loved.
I think he wants a divorce

AprilLudgate30
That is awesome- the initial flower -could be from a sitcom!