What's the shittiest and most unthoughtful gift you ever received from an SO?

ZizzerZazzer · 1日前

I had a boyfriend in 9th grade tell me he had a gift for me and kept talking it up.

He got me a box of condoms. I hadn't had anything close to sex with him or anyone at that point

PinkChloe81 · 1日前

This last Valentine's day my husband bought me a giant fucking monkey. It's five feet tall. Firstly I don't fucking like monkeys, secondly what a fucking waste of money. It turns out he's been cheating and was feeling guilty so he bought the BIGGEST thing he could to .... I'm really not sure.

Enviunity · 1日前

Oh goodness, today, I have one.

Dating 2 years. Got a $3 flashlight where he goes for work because he "forgot Christmas was coming this soon."

kittymeow789 · 1日前

He regifted me a teddy bear from his ex for valentines day.

Thouvs · 1日前

A Swiss Army Knife keyring. To add insult to injury, he bought it less than an hour after I had told him and his brother about the worst birthday gift I ever got:

On my 18th birthday, my Godfather presented me with a long, skinny box. He was rich. Like LOADED. Told me it was 'Swiss'. I'm thinking watch. It was a fucking Swiss Army Knife keyring.

My now ex presented me with the exact same shitty keyring. Oh, it was my 21st birthday and we had been together for a year at that point.

ii_akinae_ii · 1日前

a card with my name spelled incorrectly.

mr_dogalina · 1日前

He brought me an apple pie he'd stolen from work, for Christmas.

It's not like he worked at a bakery.

He worked at a hedge fund selling bonds on a foreign market that didn't close for Christmas, so he had to work. They brought in dinner every night so he stole a pie.

Winendinen69 · 1日前

Not me, but the woman who does my hair.. She had been with her ex-boyfriend for like 6 or 7 years. On their last Xmas they spent together before she broke up with him a couple of months later, she had gotten him some nice sweaters and other smaller gifts.

What did he get her? He got her a butt plug.

oh-hi-doggy · 1日前

A fucking ruler. Don't ask, I have no idea why either.

whyihatepink · 1日前

My ex husband used to upgrade his own shit then give me his old stuff. So basically, he'd buy himself shit for my birthday and holidays. This happened for every holiday for about four years.

Fortunately he stopped doing that after I had several talks with him about why that hurt. (Several, because we were young and dumb.)

genetic-error · 1日前

I had never received a gift from past SOs. It's like they all teamed up and agreed to never give me anything.

shibahuahua · 1日前

On my 21st birthday, the guy I was seeing took me out to Red Robin but said we needed to get one wrap to share because he had a coupon. Then we went walking downtown and he found a piano and ignored me for an hour so he could play it.

paperseverywhere · 1日前

Almost everything my ex gave me was thoughtless. He pretty much only bought gifts immediately before giving them (like on his way to wherever the gift giving was taking place).

The last birthday of mine that we were together (at which point we had been together for 4 years), he gave me a candle. He didn't give it to me on my birthday, though. He gave it to me on his sister's birthday, while we were having cake. His mother's birthday was the month before mine, and his sister's was the month after mine. On the way to her birthday, he stopped at the store and bought three candles, stuck them all in unmarked bags, and gave them to each of us randomly.

Sand_Dargon · 1日前

A bag of coffee beans. All woman like coffee, right?

No, I drink tea. I do not hate coffee, but I have no use for beans. I did not even have a grinder.

breakfastburritotime · 1日前

Socks, because he had a stocking fetish, and a towel. Knowing his family, I think he thought blankets were something only rich people could afford, so the towel was the next best thing.

Still not as bad as when my dad gave my mom misspelled post-it notes for Valentine's Day multiple years.

redribbon75 · 1日前

He got me a coffee thermo and 2 cups for Christmas. He told me he wanted to give me something practical for Christmas but I don't drink coffee/hot chocolate /hot things on the go, and I don't see me using those two portable cups because they are too bulky and I would have to carry them all day at school and work. I don't even have room to put them in my cupboard. I freaked out internally because it was the opposite of practical in my daily life. We've been together 2 years and last years Christmas he got me like 8 different presents like nice blankets, shirts, a purse etc... but now he bought these cups two days before Christmas with little thought, effort, or money. It's not even about the money but the $25 he spent he could of just gotten me a sweater. I spent a lot of time researching his gaming interests.to see what games he needed for his collection and loved and bought them almost two months in advance because I knew I would be unemployed in December, blew $65 worth on games and figurine, and he couldnt be bothered. It pissed me off more after I spent another 45 for a gift for his parents, his mom gave me a sample Mary Kay lotion. His sister was the only one who put time and effort into.my gift. .it just sucked that the people who were supposed to matter basically just forgot about me and tried to make it up on the sly

musicmaj · 1日前

My ex had to borrow my guitar for a gig. He lost the straps to my gig bag because he took them off for god knows what reason, and left them at the venue.

My Christmas present that year was a replacement strap for the bag. They didn't even work for that type of bag.

That was all he gave me.

no__egrets · 1日前

I once received a large, framed picture of Jon Snow. Not signed, not anything special. Just a screenshot from an episode. I had never watched Game of Thrones.

Flask_of_Amontillado · 1日前

Pastel pink girly pajama tee with booty shorts, pink satin trim, pink ribbon bow, and pearl buttons. It looked like it belonged to a preteen girl and not a woman in her mid thirties with an entirely black wardrobe.

shemplives · 1日前

A cheap home laser hair removal kit that didn't work.

viralplant · 1日前

I can't stop saying this, a plastic toothbrush holder (he was kind enough to even tell me it was one he had lying around the house) for my birthday.

hopefullyromantic · 1日前

That he had hooked up with his high school ex while he was home for the holidays.

I should have just peaced out of there...

sezrawr · 1日前

An xbox game. I didn't have an xbox, he did. He wanted the game for himself and my birthday was an excuse to buy it. He didn't even get me a card.

choixpeau · 1日前

A t-shirt with a dirty joke on it.

I couldn't actually wear it because it had a dirty joke on it.

Plus the shirt was a men's extra-large crew neck, and I only wear fitted women's shirts with v-necks or scoop necks. And it was white, which I don't wear at all because it makes me look undead.

And it wasn't even a good dirty joke - not funny enough to make me actually laugh.

Rysona · 1日前

My mom got exactly one gift from my father one Christmas. It was a Pyrex measuring cup. I held her while she cried on the couch and my sister told her to stop being so ungrateful; to "be happy you got anything at all."

There's a reason I don't associate with my "family" after she died.

PM70 · 1日前

My first ex-husband for Valentine's day one year gave me a small stuffed animal. He proudly told me that because I showed enough enthusiasm, that I was worthy of my real gift - these ugly emerald earrings and matching pendant. I hate emeralds. The setting was big and gaudy too.

HomoMirificus · 1日前

A new shower head. It wasn't even a detachable one I could use for fun.

calusari70 · 1日前

My husband is the WORST at giving gifts; puts no effort into it. Several years ago, he bought me four books that I already had and a sweater that was two sizes too small...I'm sorry, but we live together! It would have been easy for him to see what books I had and to check what size my sweaters are. Needless to say, I don't want presents anymore...they are just disappointing.

No_regrats · 1日前

Nothing. And just so we're clear, I don't mean he has never given me a thoughtless shitty gift. I mean giving me nothing for Christmas and/or my birthday, resulting in me having to take care of it and being a grump about it on top of it.

BlueJayFeathers · 1日前

A big red plush heart. Like, 1.5m big. With a naked cherub couple stitched on it. It was soooo tacky. And it came with lots of comments about how fucking expensive it was.

nepaligirl · 1日前

It was our first year together as a couple when it was my birthday. He bought me vodka and Red Bull. I don't drink vodka and I definitely don't drink Red Bull.

whiskey_clit · 1日前

Knit foot warmers hed stolen from the football team's storage locker at his college.

kezza596 · 1日前

A couple years ago, my dad bought my mum a window washing machine. Like, it sprayed water and sucked it up again so water wouldn't run.

I can see my dad's thought pattern - they had big French doors and windows and she was forever cleaning them and complaining about drip and wipe marks...but for Christmas? Mum was not impressed.

I think the reason I'm such a good diplomat is calming the storm that is my dad innocently getting things wrong around my mum.

_ataraxia · 1日前

pretty much everything my first boyfriend ever bought me. some of the most memorable examples:

for christmas, he gave me tight cream colored jeans. i was gothy in highschool. i hated tight jeans, and i certainly was not [and still not] interested in wearing white pants.
for my birthday, he gave me a delicate gold chain necklace with a small pink gemstone pendant. again, i was gothy. i wore things like spiked collars, studded bracelets, big clunky silver chains clasped with little padlocks. any metal jewelry i wore was silver, and none of it was nice or "girly". even now that i wear nicer jewelry, none of it is gold, and none of it is pink.
on valentine's day, i received a package from the vermont teddy bear company. i was so excited, vermont teddy bears are beautiful. then i opened the shipping box and discovered it was actually from pajamagram, which is owned by the vermont teddy bear company. then i opened the gift box and it was a bathrobe made of paper thin, stiff, scratchy fabric. white background, red hearts with horns/tails and big bold "she-devil" print all over. it was the tackiest thing i've ever been gifted by anyone.

gimmecoffeee · 1日前

This was a few months into our relationship. He had gone to Las Vegas with his family and got me some gifts because I guess he thought he should. He got me a Las Vegas t-shirt (L - I usually wear S) and a Las Vegas cup.

I brought it home and my mom couldn't stop laughing. I can't find the shirt anymore lol but I still use the cup as a pen holder.

Kemokiro · 1日前

Some janky-ass lingerie, and a Portillo's gift card.

I hate lingerie--the material, the fit, bleh!

He loves eating at Portillo's, not me.

Ergo, both gifts were for his selfish ass.

I just wanted a $25 gift certificate to the African Hair Braiding salon near me, to help pay for new natural-hair protective style I wanted to try.

melyssafaye · 22時間前

My (ex) husband was the worst at gift giving.

At first, he would give his mother money and ask her to buy me something for Christmas. Typically I'd get a bathrobe or some other gift similar to what you'd get from an office secret Santa.

I don't care about gifts, I care about thought and expression of love. Like, a card that said I love you would have been wonderful. I explained why this was hurtful, because he didn't care enough to pick something out for me or think about what I might like.

A few years later, I demanded that he buy me a present himself. That year I received a skillet from Family Dollar. He just grinned and said it was the thought that counted. Meanwhile, I bought him a monogrammed Zippo lighter (he was a smoker) and had the inside case engraved so the when he took it out to refill, he would see the word "Always".

After being upset, the next year, he bought me a leaf blower. I found out ahead of time and bought him a diamond bracelet that had little hearts on it. (This was the 90's) I figured we would exchange gifts. I gave him the leaf blower after I opened it. He gave the bracelet to his girlfriend.

And this is why we are divorced.

selfawaresarcasm · 1日前

I finished an EMT course just over two years ago. For that Christmas, my now ex and his family bought me a hoodie that says "I'm an EMT, my job is to save your ass, not kiss it."

1) it's very impractical. I'm not a fan of wearing clothes with writing on it unless it's a uniform. I don't care how witty the shirt is, I feel like a child wearing one. Never mind the fact that it has a curse word on it. Definitely not something I would wear in public

2) that's not the mentality a healthcare provider should have, in my opinion, at least publicly. If you are experiencing a medical or traumatic emergency, I trust that you did not call 911 for funzies. I will help you the best way I can for the hour max I am with you before dropping you off in the ER. I will put up with anything you throw at me because it most likely stems from your pain.

On a similar note, that same Christmas season, my ex hinted that he would get me a special emergency medicine bag that contains just about anything portable we can use in EMS, like basic first aid equipment and the instruments to take vital signs. I was so excited until he gave me his present: a simple bracelet. I don't wear jewelry. Not to be ungrateful, but it was a let down and felt very generic.

deplorable_word · 1日前

Ugg boots. I'd asked for a book, but "all girls" wanted ugg boots, right?

Looseends_Newfriends · 23時間前

A promise ring. But hear me out.. It turned my finger green and I'm pretty sure it was from a vending machine.

K-braithwaite · 1日前

A promise. I've wanted dance lessons since I was a kid. He knew and promised me lessons. They started in two weeks and he gave me the brochure and a card and told me I could chose the type. I felt it was expensive but like he really cared and wanted to do it for me. I told all my friends and family and was so excited.

The next three an a half years he kept saying he would get me lessons for the next season. I never brought it up after the first timeline for class registration passed and he didn't do it, but he brought it up regularly. "Don't worry, I didn't forget!" "when do you want those lessons?" "you should tell me what type of class you want so I can finally get you those dance leasons"...I told him time after time to just let it go but he "wanted to do this for me" and "a promise is a promise".

He broke a lot of promises to me before we broke up, but this one went on for ages and was just absurdly disappointing cause it kept coming up and I always I knew it was just not gonna happen.

Redhaired103 · 1日前

Nothing. Seriously, through 2,5 years of our long distance thing, he gave me NOTHING. I sent him a bunch of gifts, even to his brother whom I was friendly with. He bought me a baseball cap once, was supposed to send me that with his sweatshirt and not even did that.

3May3 · 1日前

An ex gave me a lighter he had stolen from a mutual friend's house.

hedgehogwart · 1日前

In 6th or 7th grade one of my friends gave presents to our entire group. Everyone got mostly the same thing, except for me. I got two nail polishes and ansmall beanbag stuffed animal. The next day at lunch that friend announced that she wishes people would stop complaining and the reason I had gotten something different from everyone else wasn't because she liked more but because she had forgotten about me and just had to grab random things from her too to give to me.

There was also the time where all the children on my dad's side of the family were doing secret santa. My cousin's daughter had gotten me (she was 6 at the time). My cousin completely forgot and I didn't get anything. My parents found out and called my cousin. She ended up just sending me a $20 bill in an envelope (not even with a card).

Canadiantoast · 1日前

Not me but my dad once a few years ago got my mom an electric toothbrush. He is the health and safety director for a cemical engineering company, very smart man. Mother is a nurse and he wanted to get her something practical that she would use everyday i get his line of thinking. On the other hand wtf really dad? REALLY!? SHE DRINKS COFFEE LIKE 5-7 TIMES A DAY!!

footlonghamsters · 1日前

My first boyfriend gave me one of his stuffed toys, an ugly purple dog. It smelled like smoke because his mom chain smoked inside the apartment. I threw it in the washer and ended up ruining it but he didn't notice because it was a throwaway meaningless gift anyway. My dog slept with it for a while and then I threw it out.

smokesilhouette · 1日前

In high school, I was dating but not in a relationship with a guy on Valentine's Day, and he didn't even wish me a happy Valentine's Day. My guy friend bought me a bouquet of flowers and gave them to me right in front of him. It was glorious.

(We did not date much longer.)

Girl_in_a_tie · 1日前

For Christmas about 4 years ago, my ex bought me a Game Boy SP, which was okay in theory, I guess, because to this day I still enjoy using my regular old Game Boy Color. It was red, my least favorite color, with half the paint scratched off the top, and had a lot of screen faults (scratches and dead pixels). I played it for a little while to amuse him before the battery died... and the charger port was fucked up so I couldn't even charge it to keep playing it lol.

Onedollartaco · 1日前

Earplugs and latex gloves for no particular reason. He thought it was hilarious.

CasiInAPumpkin · 23時間前

Does a fight count? Because I got him 2 ties (He needed one, because he went to a lot of dances and always had to borrow one from his neighbor) and after not even a thank you, he got all angry for such a crappy present, started a fight and ignored me. I didn't get a present at all.

Carosion · 1日前

A Gunknife. All the sketchy looks of a gun without any of the particularly useful features of an effective/efficient bladed weapon. "But Carosion, I swear it's coming from Amazon on XXX date, my brother works at their headquarters." My Birthday was in the Beginning of October. It is now past Christmas, maybe he'll use the influx of amazon giftcards to actually purchase it, but that would multiply the amount of times he has pulled through on long term plans by 2.

His advantages lie in other places that are not his reliability or long term planning.

tweem · 1日前

Not me, but my boyfriend's dad gave his wife (boyfriend's mom) a toblerone for Christmas (the year she divorced him) 😐

mcsn · 1日前

My ex boyfriend bought a 15€ hoodie for him, then realized he didn't like it that much so he gave it to me for my birthday (I didn't like it either). For the same birthday, my dad gave me a scarf he had for free in a magazine. It was at my cousin's birthday, two months later. Best birthday ever!

recyclopath_ · 1日前

Ex got me "I have one of the few good men" bumper sticker with a Marines logo on it. A week late, after over a year of dating, he had just enlisted still in high school, I didn't have a license or a car, he was cheating on me and obviously not one of the few good men.

starbucket2me · 1日前

Some of his old video games for a system that I didn't have.

Nordrassil · 16時間前

This just happened yesterday. I had ordered some lotion on Amazon because mine was running low. My boyfriend decided to intercept the package before I could get it, wrap it(including bubble wrap and everything), and presented it to me on Christmas with the whole family watching. He thought my reaction was hilarious. He thought it'd be soo funny and quirky to "gift" me a toiletry item that I bought for myself.

I was so excited while unwrapping it because my boyfriend of 8 years had finally gotten me a gift! Wow! So obviously, I was incredibly disappointed. And everyone saw. And he just laughed. I was so embarrassed. When later I spoke of it, he shrugged it off as me not having a sense of humor.

prettiestGOAT · 1日前

Oh, I've got one. My ex and I picked out a lovely lingerie set from agent provocateur that was unused but second hand on ebay. So, it was affordable - think ~£60. Black lace with white trimming, suspender belt, ouvert panties - the works. We were students and he claimed he didn't have enough cash for it, but he wanted to get me it, and I do have a weakness for beautiful underwear, so when he asked me if I could pay half, I agreed. Although the reason he didn't have enough was because he spent it all on unnecessary things, but still expected me to buy him food when he was supposedly starving.

So, Christmas comes round. We all open presents in his family's living room - I've given him my gifts already, and he loved them - he was wearing the bespoke t-shirt, which I'd had made by an etsy seller. His family gives me gifts, I get nothing from him; that's understandable, it's not the most family friendly gift. We go upstairs, and he goes straight to his computer, starts twatting about on the internet. I wait, expectantly. He doesn't stop, for about twenty minutes, then asks me why I'm being distant. I ask if he's planning on giving me my present. He shouts at me for a bit, then grabs it from his underwear drawer. It's not even wrapped. I'm hurt, of course, and let him know. He says, 'fine, I'll wrap it'. I tell him it hurts more, because I was assuming he'd be excited to see me put it on. He says he understands and we calm down and spend the rest of the evening hanging out, but I'm still hurt. After all, underwear is at least in part a gift for the one who gets to see you in it, so I was sort of paying for another present to him.

I don't get that gift for a good couple of months, despite asking about it occasionally, and getting shouted at in response. I tell him I want my money back, he refuses. Throws it at me in a shiny bag - one of those ones people give you alcohol in, so eventually I just give in and take it. I don't believe I ever wore it for him in the end, although we were together much longer after that than we should've been. One of the suspender straps broke anyway. I'm still pretty pissed about that. And that ex, frankly - that was a pretty mild contender on the list of things he's done.

Bravotess · 22時間前

A vacuum cleaner. I guess it was thoughtful but the thought was a shitty one.

liesbehindstars · 19時間前

A boyfriend gave me a Build-A-Bear rabbit with the terrifying laugh sound in its paw, and then immediately broke up with me. Like, 30 seconds later, in the same conversation, he had planned it that way.

gizmoluvzu1 · 1日前

A FURBY! They're creepy.

yancepantz · 22時間前

My ex gave me an envelope full of cash for my birthday that was actually money for his bookie. I know this because the envelope said "bookie" on the outside. (Not complaining about the cash! He was a very wealthy guy so the absolute lack of thought didn't make up for the money he gave me)

HurtinAlbertans · 22時間前

My boyfriend bought his Grandmother a necklace set for Christmas the year before but decided against giving it to her. I was 100% aware this was for his Grandma as he showed me and told me about it. Guess what my Christmas present was!

rqnadi · 21時間前

I was dating a guy who handed me an envelope for Christmas. Inside was a fake gold necklace that I think was meant for a child.....he told me it had my birthstone in it but it was the wrong birthstone.

I spent hours picking out and wrapping his gifts and it was just really awkward since I had no idea what in gods name made him choose that gift. We had been only been dating 9 months so maybe he was just clueless.

kelizan · 1日前

A bike tire pump. He knew I needed one but it seems like the least romantic thing to give someone for their birthday.

scienceismygod · 23時間前

A gym membership, because he thought it was cool that I was losing weight (health issues had required it and I was doing it for me) also "they have an indoor pool" this gift kept giving me a 90$ monthly bill and took me ages to get rid of. Needless to say he's single and we're friends but he just didn't understand what went wrong. This however was the straw that broke the camel's back of stupid shit I couldn't deal with.

Fauxdite · 1日前

A sword.

Also a secondhand GameCube because he bought himself a new Wii.

phototropism · 22時間前

I made my long-term high school boyfriend this really heartful zine-like journal of our memories together for Christmas. He didn't bother getting me anything. I've been sort of jaded about presents for SO's since then.

Bandit6789 · 21時間前

Not me, but for Christmas one year my sister got a $15 gift card to Subway sandwiches from the guy she was dating. No ca f, no box, just hey here's a gift card. They had never eaten there together he just figured girls like Subway.

BearcatInTheBurbs · 1日前

Today for Christmas my husband gave me spice jars and silicone rings that go under your electric stove burners to prevent gunk build up....

His explanation, "they were on your Amazon wish list." Apparently I needed to explain to him that just because it is on my Amazon list doesn't mean I want it as a gift! I thought it was a little thoughtless.

He tried to defend it by reminding me he bought me a fancy Kitchen Aid mixer 4 years ago for our first Christmas together. It's a good thing I love the man.

Riliz · 12時間前

My best friends SO gave her a tampon once for christmas, because he said she was acting like she was on her period. She thought it was funny but I can't see that angle of it...

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