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.

My DH usually does quite well to be fair to him. However, I was a bit miffed the year he bought me a replacement Yorkshire pudding tin, because a few months before I’d asked him not to put ours in the dishwasher next time, and joked that it was ruined and we’d never have good Yorkies again. Thankfully that seems to have been at outlier, but I’m very careful about commenting on kitchen apparatus in the lead up to Christmas now just in case.

@MrsSchadenfreude wtf?

have you ever asked him why?
has anyone ever read them?
bizarre

My dh commissioned a painting of me. Jesus fucking Christ. It was horrifying. I cried when I saw it, and not with joy.

For our 20th anniversary dh gave me a toilet brush, oh the joys of married life!

Posh bubble bath.......we didnt have a bath.

A medicine ball. I was getting into a little bit of exercise, but I really have no clue what to do with this ball.

One year he got me jumpers, perfect! Mostly he sticks with trainers, as it's easy and he's never bought me a bad pair (but then winds me up about all the shoes I own......that he buys me"

Last Christmas was a particular low point. He clearly bought my presents in the last few days before Christmas when he had no time for postage, so he got me utter shite from town. Shitty M&S chocolates, when I'd sent him a list of the ones I actually like (he did ask), small soft toys (I'm creeped out by the texture of plush, and what am I meant to do with them?), a very badly made plastic jewellery holder when I'd specified a wooden jewellery box.

It all sounds minor, but honestly? He'd asked me for a list of what I wanted in advance, then got me crap versions of everything that were just wrong.

He's not strapped for cash btw, he just cba.

This year he's getting less from me.

Pic!

Hahah made me think of this @LizzoBorden

Fucking gardening tools.
But I still married him. 😉

Oh no. It was much, much, much worse.

My DH is terrible at gifts. The lowest point was a trip to B&Q a couple of days before my birthday. We bought a toilet. He paid, said happy birthday. I assumed he was joking. Birthday came and went with no further gift. He gets a specific list and amazon link now.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 men are strange creatures

Not so much the present but an ex once put my birthday gift inside a puzzle box I had to figure out before I could get to my actual present. I find things like that so frustrating and I think threw it at him at one point 😂

I got nothing. He thought I'd prefer presents when our DD can choose them.

Hes an ex......

A sequin AC/DC jumper! I have never even listened to AC/DC, let alone expressed a desire to wear their merchandise. It was so bizarre, I burst out laughing.
On my birthday last year he thought he had got me a bottle of sparkling elderflower because I do quite like that. But he’d mistakenly got the cordial you mix with water. Still nice but then I referred to it as squash later on and he looked perplexed and I said “yeah the birthday squash, can you get that out”. So now we joke about him getting me birthday squash every year.

Our first Christmas dating I was rather bemused when my then bf (now dh) gave me a pair of scanty lace knickers from primark that must’ve cost no more than 50p (I knew this as it had recently opened in our city and I’d been in for a nosy)
When I burst out laughing and was like “wtaf?” he said he’d given his Dm and auntie some money to buy me a few presents and they’d chosen them, which made it even worse! To be fair to him he’d also got me a silver necklace (which I never wore as it wasn’t my taste). I realised after that first Christmas I’d have to just tell him exactly what I wanted so there was no room for error! I think he actually prefers just being told 😂

The first gift he ever gave me was pierced earrings... at the time my ears weren't pierced. One year he bought me a CD ... I just never, ever listen to music, such a bizarre choice. But to be honest I don't think he's thought much of my presents to him! We celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary today and have long since given up exchanging gifts . All our finances are shared and neither of us would begrudge the other anything we wanted ... assuming we could afford it.

I once got a battery operated machine for drying your nail varnish. Have painted my nails maybe twice in thirty years , I'm a gardener

He used to buy me jumpers the same as his mums 🙈🙈.
Now I send him Screenshots of things I like and let him choose so it's still a surprise. X

Omg I thought I had it bad with some of my exes offerings. Some of these are hysterical, sadly I am in pain when I laugh due to injury so holin i in bit.

Strangely my exes gifts improved exponentially when he was cheating on me and, I assume, feeling ( only slightly) guilty. Gave them away when I found out , couldn't stomach looking at them and eventually him. Worst one, a wok, which my friend had already given me weeks before.

At a time when I had been specifically mentioning engagement and telling my boyfriend of several years that he had to either shit or get off the pot because I had turned 30… he said he’d bought me a sparkly Christmas present. Then when I opened the small parcel it was a little square pot of glitter lip gloss. He was looking at me for my reaction like he was expecting me to laugh…. and he didn’t really know what to do when I burst out crying. We were supposed to be having dinner with his family and I just walked out and drove to my mum’s in floods of tears.

For a 'big' birthday -meal at a fancy restaurant, possibly with night away. But with no booking or intention of booking. I think I was supposed to tie him down to a day, book it in (fully booked for months) and arrange childcare etc. I didn't, never to be mentioned again.

@runlift exactly the same here, for my last big birthday! Obviously it never will happen. Cheapest gift he ever gave, and he got to look amazing announcing it to everyone. It is not a gift to me if I have to sort it all out is it?

The first Christmas after DS1 was born, he was a few months old, I was tired and feeling like crap and just wanted something nice. He got me: a comic book. One single comic book. I hit the roof, what hurt the most was that there is no way I had time to read it, even if I had wanted to! Hands were always full of baby.

I've got to get this one off my chest. After the birth of my 1st child, which was horrendous and traumatic, I was given a horrid tacky plastic medal, inscribed with something like 'great mum - well done for giving birth' (or similar).
He was so proud of it. Apparently because he gets similar medals for running tedious marathons and giving birth was obviously similar!
My lack of enthusiasm for this gift was obviously missed because he got me another after 2nd child was born.
I tried to appreciate them... but just realised they were monumentaly thoughtless. Both got chucked in bin.