Gifts from other half that you've hated

[strawberrysea]

Well, maybe 'hated' is a bit strong.

Inspired by the thread about presents that your other half rejected. (Thanks for the inspiration)

My DP got me the same necklace that he had gifted to his mum for her birthday. Think my face said it all.

A wax melt pot thing. I don’t burn candles as the smell gives me headaches. It went straight in the charity bag.

Toothpicks
id rattled the wrapped box and guessed it was earrings to which he smiled and said ‘maybe’
i was so excited and couldn’t wait to unwrap it

fucking toothpicks

We went out to a charity do two days before my birthday. We didn’t know anybody there to we sat talking facing each other all night. I was wearing a regular shortish pearl necklace.

The next day he went out to buy me a birthday present. Yes you’ve guessed it, it was an exact match to my pearl necklace. I couldn’t even wear them together as the were the same length.

A recent birthday he bought me 12 chefs Tea towels. It’s because he was fed up of me getting food out of the oven with our regular Tea towels, and getting them dirty. But that’s an improvement on getting no gift or birthday card at all.

A secondhand hose reel (the kind with wheels), minus hose.
At that point I knew he hated me.

A bottle of rose when I was pregnant!
The same perfume his mum wears (overpoweringly floral)
clunky and horrible Pandora necklace
awful old fashioned earrings that were at least 30 years too old for me
he always gets me awful jewellery that I hate or perfume which is not something I’m very interested in and is overpriced rubbish.
now we basically don’t do gifts!

An electric sander that he told me he wanted 2 weeks before my birthday. He opened it and used it on my birthday so I couldn't even take it back.

That's just reminded me that another gift I got for a birthday one year was a second hand electric guitar.

Never expressed an interest in one in my life.

I used to put a lot of thought into his gifts but I don't bother so much anymore.

Is there a back story to this...

Nope,he just thought they’d ‘come in handy’

hes never made that mistake again-got knows what was going through his head

ive had earrings for every birthday/Christmas since

A set of candles that smelled like chocolate and caramel desserts. Ick

Baileys. Every year. Don't mind it but I love red wine and port so if he can't be arsed to buy a real gift like body lotion I use vats of, then port is better please.
Also a reading light that clips on a book because he hates putting any lights on and I like to read...

An ironing board cover (he was my ex not long after).

I don't think I've ever had a 'bad' present, but not really things I would buy myself or use, but the thought was always there. Jewellery not quite to my taste but still a lovely thought - I only wear silver/white gold but have only been gifted yellow gold, chocolates like lindt or ferrero rocher when I would much prefer a tiny box of something a bit special, but the kids enjoy eating through the ones I get. A festive jumper in a colour that looks awful on me. The thought was there though,

One Christmas my husband bought me a sieve "because you said we needed a new one" and a spatula.
I told him not to buy me kitchen essentials again, he hasn't so far...

mine bought me £50 body shop set - when we were really short of money & it was our only present that year. I was absolutely gutted at the complete waste of money they I could have spent on so many other things

A recipe book - for dogs. That is, a book of things I could cook for the dog. I had never shown any interest in dog related cuisine further than giving the dog scraps.

Christ almighty I'd have cried!

I may have thrown them in his direction…

He's normally brilliant with presents. After DS was born I was feeling very post-baby weight frumpy and wanted a stylish coat that I could feel good in as I wheeled him around. DH bought me this hige brown tent of a coat - suitable for someone twice my age and weight. I almost cried.

Once, when we'd not been getting on well he got me a tree I knew he wanted to plant in the garden. I said, 'Thank you for the tree you wanted.' He never did it again.

My OH does buy some really rubbish gifts at times, just so I have lots of stuff to 'unwrap' (something I really don't care about). I've had a make your own cleaning kit complete with white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda, some food bag clips and a water bottle with the letter P on (he couldn't get one with a J on it which is the initial of my first name, so he got a P which is the initial of my surname). I took back the water bottle. He's also got me a 5 lb bag of pasta and every Christmas he gets me a stollen, and I never eat it.

A second hand ladyshave from an ex

@Theyorkshirelass 😁😂
This thread is joyous.
I'm very bossy and I tell DH what he's going to be getting me.
My poor relative abroad, she said one Christmas her husband bought her a hoover and she said she was really upset.

For reasons best known to himself, DH decided to give me a book on the Holocaust every Christmas and birthday for years. You name it, we’ve got it. An entire shelf of books on the Holocaust.

Hoovers can be a good gift... My parents were married a year and VERY short of money. They were living in a first floor flat and my dad came home and found my mum at 8 months pregnant, on hands and knees, in tears, cleaning the stairs with a dustpan and brush. I gather he took one look, turned on his heel and went out. He came back with a second hand hoover....