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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask you for your best revenge ideas, real or imagined

206 replies

BonfireToffee · 17/06/2025 21:36

Currently being dragged through the shit by the man buying my hugely abusive STBXH’s house.

As I’m the occupier and my name’s not on the deeds (“it’s my house, I paid for it”), I’ve essentially been used as a ping pong ball between these two gargantuan arseholes.

We finally exchanged today, after more than a year of absolute nonsense—delays, demands, slow drive-bys (complete with evil stares) and renegotiations.

With just under two weeks until we complete and I can finally leave this hellhole, I’m contenting myself with imagining all the terrible but legal revenge I could (but won’t) enact on these two festering boils on the bum cheeks of humanity.

And so to my AIBU: am I being unreasonable to ask you to share with me your most delicious ideas for revenge, whether they’re something you’ve done or something you’ve only fantasised about?

Please, vipers: help me get through the last 10 days in a house I never loved and never thought I’d be brave enough to leave.

PS: No bollocks about living well — I fully intend to after 16 years of abuse, but right now I want to indulge evil thoughts.

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Whammyyammy · 18/06/2025 23:36

Plant Japanese knotweed.
Plant bamboo .
Buy rats and put them in attic.
Hide fish where you can.
Pour hot fat/grease down the sink.
Send a cocky rude letter introducing yourself as a new neighbour from him.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:37

caringcarer · 18/06/2025 04:54

Sign his email up to junk mail especially penis enlargement, hair regrowth for bald men, incontinence pads. Advertise his watch or Lego collection cheaply cash on collection. Spray paint the word paedophile on his car. Even when he gets it repainted the neighbours will always wonder. Steal his passport and he won't know it's missing until he looks for it to go on holiday and hopefully won't have time to get a replacement. Put a little sugar in his petrol tank.

My exh had interflora on repeat for my birthdays, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Wedding Anniversary, Xmas and anniversary of our engagement. They sent me wonderful bouquets on each of these dates and he paid by pre signed direct debit. After we split I didn't tell him I was still getting flowers. He paid to send me these flowers for almost 18 months and was fuming when he finally realised.

I love the paedo idea.
Even better wait until he moves to his new place.

Let the dust settle for a month or two.
Then call or email crimestoppers and tell them he is downloading or distributing illegal images of minors.

The police will be duty bound to investigate and will likely take phones laptops etc.
This is extreme though and should only be used if the person was a real twat or a domestic abuser.

Imbluedalale · 18/06/2025 23:49

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:15

The sponsor a pot bellied pig lol.

When i still lived at home a neighbours ex cheated on her with a probationer on the late shift.

She kicked him out then did the pig thing.
Guess what he did for a living?.

Was he a butcher ? 🤣🤣

PyongyangKipperbang · 19/06/2025 00:22

The life sized cut out is brilliant and totally legal.

We have a cut out in the cellar at work of a famous sportsman from a promo a couple of months ago (no idea why my boss hasnt binned it but hey ho). My colleague returned today after finishing Uni for the summer, didnt know about it and screamed the place down when she went in and saw it.

It really threw her, poor thing. I was very sympathetic and moved it so it didnt happen again (we have a couple of returners over the next couple of weeks). Scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it out in full view in the pub!

But a manky pair of arseholes who no one likes? I would go full on horror character.....like a Mummy or Nosferatu or someone with a massive axe ready to strike, something like that.

PyongyangKipperbang · 19/06/2025 00:25

Imbluedalale · 18/06/2025 23:49

Was he a butcher ? 🤣🤣

I rather think he worked for his majesty's constabulary!

Blobbitymacblob · 19/06/2025 00:32

I wonder how many times this thread has been bookmarked.

Buy a different variety of grass seeds and plant them in a rectangle shape about 6 x 2ft. Bonus points if it’s visible from the main bedroom window.

Leave a typed note, folded and a bit crumpled , down the back of a shelf or cupboard, as if it had slipped down there, but sticking out a bit so it will be found, saying “[Ex’s name] I know what you did. You won’t get away with it”

Leave an infrasound generator under the floorboards in the bedroom. Bonus points if you can find one with a timer to prolong the battery life as long as possible.

Imbluedalale · 19/06/2025 00:42

PyongyangKipperbang · 19/06/2025 00:25

I rather think he worked for his majesty's constabulary!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gattopardo · 19/06/2025 00:48

Carpet moths are almost impossible to get rid of, short of removing all the carpets and fumigating the house.

Gattopardo · 19/06/2025 01:02

An ex of mine had a very unfortunate trip to the clap clinic owing to extreme burning sensations on his penis.

It turned out he’d been chopping chillies by hand, gave hands a cursory wash, and then went for wee (or possibly … more ;))

It always struck me that scotch bonnets were a gift to womankind, harmless long term, uncomfortable and embarrassing short term.

Readinstead · 19/06/2025 01:11

Loosen the screws in a couple of the floorboards in high traffic areas to cause them to creak.
Apply wax or grease to the odd window pane (leaving the rest clear) some inside some outside. Wd40 on mirrors
Bat poo in the attic and report it! Especially if they are planning a loft extention
Dribble proper perfume down the backs of radiators or sprinkle on carpets - my toddler dd spilt Chanel No 5 on herself and the carpet. When the clothes were washed and ironed the smell was reactivated for months and I had to replace the carpet.
Accidental small spills of shampoo/body wash on the carpet. It dries stiff and foams nicely when you try to clean it.
Grit under external doors, scratches tiles and wooden floors and makes a noise.
Wait 6 months or so then send a glitter bomb.

TheCoralMoose · 19/06/2025 01:14

Imbluedalale · 18/06/2025 23:49

Was he a butcher ? 🤣🤣

A police officer.

TheCoralMoose · 19/06/2025 01:15

Readinstead · 19/06/2025 01:11

Loosen the screws in a couple of the floorboards in high traffic areas to cause them to creak.
Apply wax or grease to the odd window pane (leaving the rest clear) some inside some outside. Wd40 on mirrors
Bat poo in the attic and report it! Especially if they are planning a loft extention
Dribble proper perfume down the backs of radiators or sprinkle on carpets - my toddler dd spilt Chanel No 5 on herself and the carpet. When the clothes were washed and ironed the smell was reactivated for months and I had to replace the carpet.
Accidental small spills of shampoo/body wash on the carpet. It dries stiff and foams nicely when you try to clean it.
Grit under external doors, scratches tiles and wooden floors and makes a noise.
Wait 6 months or so then send a glitter bomb.

Like your style 😉

Jimchernyak · 19/06/2025 04:15

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raymanrules · 19/06/2025 05:46

This thread has just made my whole day 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Auroraloves · 19/06/2025 10:02

Loving these ideas 😂

665theneighborofthebeast · 19/06/2025 10:20

murasaki · 17/06/2025 22:43

Glitter bomb by post. A bugger to get out of carpets.

Cheaper and more effective. Balance an open tub of glitter on the loft hatch as you carefully close it.

ScupperedbytheSea · 19/06/2025 10:20

Get a load of cheap fire alarms, and the cheapest batteries you can find (or old ones, even better).

Hide them anywhere really hard to find. Corners of loft, behind water tank, behind kitchen cupboards, under stairs, under floorboard etc. You get the drift.

At some point those smoke alarms are going to run down, and then they are going to start beeping intermittently for a minutes for absolutely ages. And the fucker will drive himself mad trying to find them.

665theneighborofthebeast · 19/06/2025 10:25

Slightly more involved. Pee into a narrow nozzeled bottle ( like a squeezy ketchup bottle) so you can write a rude word on the carpet in urine. ( You may need a jug here) Let it dry. Change the bulb in the room for a blacklight.

When he turns the light on ..voila !!! It will glow

665theneighborofthebeast · 19/06/2025 10:28

You can put a wireless doorbell receiver anywhere you want. Then press the bell part every time you drive past the house.

Tagyoureit · 19/06/2025 10:50

FrenchTucked · 17/06/2025 22:44

This would be for a local 'mean girl' mum who along with her daughter helped make my lovely ASD dd's time at secondary school hell. This woman walks around with a constant look of prim outrage on her face.

I would love to concrete a whole army of ugly, naked garden gnomes onto her front garden. I'd do it in the dead of night so she would wake up to them.

Won't happen but it's fun to think about!

I reckon gorilla glue would make that process quicker

Orangemintcream · 19/06/2025 11:25

I heard of someone - back when Game of Thrones was on and it was the season finale.

Their ex had been watching it via their subscription and they allowed it. Apparently he has a group of people over to watch the finale.

They cancelled the subscription an hour before the show aired.

Catsandcannedbeans · 19/06/2025 11:39

Hide sausages in the hem of curtains or if you can any crevice they won’t be found and they will stink up a place.
sign him up for any email spam you can, also gyms in the area, Mormons, whatever.

This is my real kicker - gumtree add advertising loads of Rangers merch (you can find pics online) and say you’re giving it away because Celtic are doing better. Select football teams that are appropriate for your area. Add their number. You can also do gumtree adds for free warhammer stuff, free puppies, but the football one… that will take them down. I know someone who had to change his number.

CherryRipe1 · 19/06/2025 12:54

KIlliePieMyOhMy · 17/06/2025 22:34

Pop a poo in a box and post it.

Preferably dog/fox/cat poo due to DNA.

CherryRipe1 · 19/06/2025 13:12

Keep turning water off outside if they have this. Fleas/moths/bedbugs through the letterbox. I knew some mad women who fell out & put snakes and rats through each others letterboxes. For nightmare loud neighbours from hell; Audio drone angled towards roof, play horrible loud death metal or any shitty music of choice until they shut the hell up. For nasty partners, slice a small razor cut in clothes and every time it's washed the holes and fray will get worse or splash with battery acid. Super Glue tyre valve then tyres won't be able to be inflated. There's some good ones on here!