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To ask what the most annoying thing was that an ex took with them? (Lighthearted)

90 replies

BillyNotQuiteNoMates · 27/09/2017 03:52

Until last night, I though it was the toothbrush charger, but last night, I discovered that he'd also taken my vibrator charger with him 🙄
Anyone else got a funny one?

OP posts:
gingergenius · 27/09/2017 15:05

My dog!

Fuckoffee · 27/09/2017 15:05

My ex took my golf clubs. He'd bought them for my birthday a few months earlier. He thought playing golf together might help the relationship. However, they were in his size and I hate golf so very much 😆 Him keeping them really pissed me off, even though I clearly had no use for them.

Tigerlovingall · 27/09/2017 15:08

An arm of a jacket I'd knitted myselfGrin he'd bought the wool for me to complete it, so.....

othermummy · 27/09/2017 15:11

My phone battery Angry

Miserylovescompany2 · 27/09/2017 15:17

My Dsis split with her long term partner - he moved in with his lap-over (OW) same day. Dsis bagged all his summer clothes - it was middle of December and dumped them on OW's lawn.

He had to travel back on the bus wearing shorts and flip-flops to see the two DC they had together.

guilty100 · 27/09/2017 15:18

The dishwasher, which he knew I really wanted. To make matters worse, he didn't bloody unplumb it properly and caused a pretty big leak all over the kitchen. I was living in another town, and it's a good job I made a special trip to see what he'd actually taken, or it would have done some serious damage and delayed the house sale.

guilty100 · 27/09/2017 15:19

And to add insult to injury, it say rusting in his parents' garage for years!

RuggerHug · 27/09/2017 15:20

My youth bitter laugh
Same guy finally sent back my stuff that was in his house after much reminding(it was mostly for DMs computer he was 'fixing'). The box included empty shampoo/shower gel etc bottles and someone elses unwashed knickers. Why?!

catsnickedallmypens · 27/09/2017 15:23

A friend of mine was seeing a guy who was a right tosser. When they finally split up she took the remote controls for all his electronic equipment and threw them out of the window of her car on the motorway. Terrible littering i know but she got a lot of satisfaction from doing it!

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 27/09/2017 15:23

This still annoys me now, 20 years later - photos of a holiday in Florence/Venice. Had just got an SLR camera and taken some really nice photos of the scenery etc. - but he kept them all, the bastard.

Holliewantstobehot · 27/09/2017 15:30

One of the bedside tables. I was left with the rest of the set. He also wanted the wii, which I'd bought. I offered him the hoover which he had bought but he didn't want it. Spent the next year telling the dcs he could take the wii away any time he wanted because it was his.

HappyGoFucky · 27/09/2017 15:31

A washing machine. Miserable fucker had never switched it on in the entire time we were together

TheCatsMother99 · 27/09/2017 15:36

Not me but an old friend's parents split up. When the dad left the mum's house he took the plugs off every single electrical item.

Allthebestnamesareused · 27/09/2017 15:38

My ex took half of the dinner set so instead of 8 of everything I had 4 of everything and one veg dish instead of 2 etc.

Anyway it was a set I could top up buit by bit so I had 8 again.

I now have 12 of everything because when his new wife found it in the garage she gave it to me!

EverythingEverywhere1234 · 27/09/2017 16:08

One of my exes returned my things in a black bin bag, delivered to college (I was a student at the time). I soon turned from mortified to highly amused when I realised his parting shot was to only give me back one sock of every pair. He'd actually gone to that trouble, bless him.
My most recent (abusive) ex tried to keep my dog, my horse and all my stuff. No, no, no pal. I turned up while he was at work with a transit van, a horsebox and a car, broke into my OWN home and took everything within 2 hours. Thank god for helpful family members! The horse and dog were always mine they were never his!!

peachgreen · 27/09/2017 16:26

Not mine, but a friend's ex had a party to deliberately drink all of his (rather valuable!) whiskey collection - bar a tiny dribble in each bottle. Which was actually more annoying than her drinking them in their entirety, because he still ended up moving all the bottles unknowingly!

Genius revenge, if somewhat infuriating! Even he had to admire it.

I let my ex keep everything, I would rather be left with nothing than end up on a thread like this...!

MagicFajita · 27/09/2017 16:30

Anything he'd ever bought for me or that had any resale value.

Firenight · 27/09/2017 16:40

One bedside table; half the wine glasses (but all the cut glass), the silver cutlery and half the everyday l plates, the hoover and the ironing board.

Forgot his mother’s jewellery and death certificate though. I had to send those on after.

Babyblues14 · 27/09/2017 16:44

We collected dvds while we were together. I always stayed at his so that is where they were kept. When we split we had a huge fight over them like they were our bloody kids. I ended up with one because I snatched it on my way out. It was a teenage relationship. I look back and giggle about how serious we took it and now we both have kids and real relationships Grin

MonsieurBing · 27/09/2017 16:47

My ex took the fire extinguisher.

He cleared out the house, even taking spare loo rolls and toothpaste. He did forget to take the bottle opener that he'd had since his student days. I get a warm glow every time I use it now

oneinfifty · 27/09/2017 16:50

I was once dumped whilst working away for a few months so I couldn't get my stuff back from his flat for several months. Despite having begged me to turn down the job and marry him, he informed me after 1 week of leaving that he had met a few 'girls' (his words) he fancied and didn't want the hassle of calling me in the evenings.

When I went to collect my stuff I found that my favourite pair of tight trousers were ripped at the seems at the back and some of my shoes were trashed. I never found out if he'd lent them to someone or been trying them on himself!

I had left a large box of CDs and when I got home I found that most of my CD cases had his crap CDs in them instead of my own. I lost my collection of 90s indie rock and gained lots of cheap chart/dance compilations (the sort found in pound shops etc). This was far more of lasting loss than the relationship!

SparklyMagpie · 27/09/2017 17:33

Tigerlovingall I'm sorry but that did make me chuckle Grin how pathetic are these people!

Daisychain06 · 27/09/2017 17:39

Mine dug the plants up out of the garden and took them. Oh. And the toilet roll holder because his mum had bought it and so it was his.

steppemum · 27/09/2017 17:45

Something he wanted to take...
was splitting up with a bf, we were dividing the stuff in our flat.

All amicable until it came to a set of ashtrays in the shape of playing cards.
They were my Granny's, she was a veteran bridge player. I don't smoke or even had any intention of using them, but the were MY Granny's and never his.

He was furious, claimed we had found them in previous flat and taken them with us, no amount of me saying - umm, these were around all my childhood??? Would make him budge, he was so irritated that I wouldn't let him take them.

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