My Dating Nightmare: Real, Awful Gifts Women Received From Ex-Boyfriends

• "I merely mentioned I wanted a Scrub Daddy after watching Shark Tank one day. I bought him an iPad for his birthday several months before. I got a Scrub Daddy."

  
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• "I told my ex of 2 years I wanted UGG slippers for Christmas. He bought me the kind you can buy at a drug store and said, ‘These are pretty much the same thing, but so much cheaper!’ They weren’t even my size."

  
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• "I was dating my ex for 8 months. We were going on a date the night before we both went home for Christmas. I bought a cashmere sweater for him to open. He got me nothing but said ‘I am going to pay for dinner tonight. It will be your Christmas present."

  
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• "I got a $60 parking ticket when I borrowed my ex-boyfriend’s car. He paid it and said we could be ‘even’ for my birthday present."

  
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• "A spa gift card for $100 that was filled out and dated two years before we even met."

  
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• "My boyfriend of six months told me he wanted a PlayStation for Christmas and I told him I wanted a new purse. He got the PlayStation. I got a waffle maker. Then I found out he won said waffle maker from a raffle his company had."

  
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• "I got baseball tickets for my birthday. I don’t like baseball. What’s worse is I wasn’t even going to be in town for the game so my ex ended up going with his best friend."

  
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• "On Valentine’s Day, my ex-husband mixed up the cards and accidentally gave me one that was intended for his mistress he swore was ‘just a colleague.’ I filed for divorce that week."

  
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• "My boyfriend and I were born a week apart. He was hinting around about a new watch, which I bought him. He gave me a grocery store paper bag, containing a coffee mug, a small teddy bear, and deodorant so I would stop using his when I stayed over."

  
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• "My ex and our families got together to celebrate my 30th. The first gift I opened was from his mom and was a sterling silver necklace. My boyfriend handed me his gift. It was a vegetable chopper I saw on an infomercial once..."

  
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• "...His mom was mortified and handed over another jewelry box with a pair of earrings to match the necklace she gave me. Upon seeing that her son had only given me a kitchen gadget , she told me the earrings were from him. He was very confused."

  
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• "I’ve never been into video games but told my ex I would try them out since we were going to be in quarantine for God knows how long. For my birthday he ordered a new PS4 video game so we could ‘play together.’ I am now quarantined by myself."

  
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• "I gave my ex a card and some candy for our first Valentine’s Day. Nothing crazy. He said he forgot a card for my gift and ran to the store. I opened the card and it said he was ‘treating’ me to a Hulu subscription..."

  
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• "...because I wanted to start watching Handmaid’s Tale. I logged on and he had gotten it for himself a month before and just gave me his login credentials. OH! Then he added in a ‘voucher’ good for one 30 minute back massage."

  
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• "I thought my ex and I would be exchanging gifts for Christmas. I got him a pair of Air Pods and some other sentimental things. He had nothing for me to open. When I left in the morning he Venmo’d me $300 with a memo that said 'Buy whatever you want.'"

  
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• "He bought me a gun so we could go shooting together (his favorite hobby). I don’t like guns. We broke up and he kept the gun."

  
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