Love hurts – and breakups can hurt even more. Kevin Cotter of Tucson, Ariz., opted to cope with the pain of his divorce by finding 101 uses for his ex-wife’s wedding dress. Have you ever done anything – er – “creative” with an ex’s stuff? Was it therapeutic? Did it backfire on you in any way? Share your stories here.
Have you ever gotten 'creative' with an ex's stuff?
Thu May 27, 2010 7:11 AM EDT
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Have you ever gotten 'creative' with an ex's stuff?


I took my divorce settlement and did some "restoration" work....
1. My ex loved to bass fish. He caught an 8 lb largemouth in a tournament and had it mounted on a nice piece of driftwood. It was beautiful. BUT, when he moved out because he had a girlfriend, his lunker made a great ashtray for me. Lots of ashes and butts. Plus, this lunker lost it's tail somehow.......hhhhmmmmm......wonder how that happened? When he came to the house to pack up the rest of his stuff, he found his trophy. It actually brought him to his knees and he cried like a baby.
2. I had my ex (the same guy) served by a private process server, a contempt of court summons, at his wedding to the "other woman". Cost me a bit of money to have the process server do this, but well worth it. He was served after she walked down the aisle and they were both standing there in front of everyone!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh #2 is harsh!
Love it!
That's so cold! But, I completely admire and envy your moxie. I have one ex that I'd like to put the hurt to for what he did to me in the two years we were together, but he's a law enforcement office so I can't be quite as vindictive as all that.
Wow. It's amazing a such a spiteful, bitchy, arrogant person such as yourself ever managed to get a second date, much less a marriage proposal. Or did you have to blackmail the poor guy? No wonder he found a girlfriend and left. Despite your gesture at his wedding (though #1 is actually pretty funny), I suspect he's much happier now and he and his happy wife have a good laugh about their wedding day. Congrats to him for finding a better life.
If you consider her sister as "stuff"... well, use your imagination.
Hey Pete-1758652, sweet...but my ex has 3 sisters, 2 are now considered "stuff". Always serve the "pay-back-plate" well chilled...
My ex fiancee purchased a (very old) truck for way more than it was worth. He proceeded to break the front axel and when my mechanic told him that there wasn't anything he could do, my ex left the truck at the shop. We broke up when he got a 15 year old girl pregnant 6 months before the wedding. Coincidentally, the truck title was in my name (whole different story), so when the mechanic called me to tell me that he had someone interested in buying it for parts, I contacted the interested party immediately. I had just ordered a new title for $30 (my ex washed the original in his jeans pocket). So I "sold" the guy the truck for the price of the replacement title.
The ex was pretty upset when he found out I gave his truck away!
hahahaha yes....
good for you!! love it!!
sold a old truck for $30 boy u're stupid(depending on what make,modle and year) it could of ben worth thousands of $$$$$$$$ i spent a grand just for usable crome on 1 of my trucks
As the truck title was in your name, it was your truck. Period.
Well my ex and I lived together. We decided I would move out during the day when he was at work. Well, needless to say, I packed up all of his clothes as well and donated them.
Hahaha that's awesome.
When I was a teen, my ex came home one day to an empty house. While he was at work, my friends and I rented a U-Haul and cleared the house. My best friend who just rented her first apartment had more than enough for her little two bedroom. He didn't even have toilet paper to wipe his ass.
We got back together a few days later, but we were never able to visit my best friend.
What a vindictive little @!$%# I was back then.
He didn't know that I discovered he was cheating. So night after night while he slept, I did something to his precious truck - which he would leave unlocked on the driveway. I toilet papered it one night (including all his ladders, compressor, tools, etc. I poured honey in various places (including seats). I poured beer in the seats and carpets. Sand, dirt - whatever. He never even said anything to me because he thought it was the other girl doing it all!
hilarious!!
too awesome
My ex broke up with me through a text message, I went back to the house and gathered up some things.. I took the toothpaste. When I came back a week later to get my stuff I noticed my ex's white smile was was rather dingy.. and when I went into the bathroom still no toothpaste.. He had a job interview that week.. I guess toothpaste is one of those things you always forget you don't have by your sink :P
I broke his most prized possession: his beloved Canon DSLR. Served him right for all those times he cheated on me.
Noooooooooooo! You could have shipped it to me!
Oh no!!! You could have sold it...but to break it?? Someone else could have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of that (like me or Jimmy James!)
So what happens if one doesn't cheat on you? What was broken before he cheated? Sounds like he got off easy.
Ouch!!!! I think I'll stick with my husband.
My ex was in the process of restoring a classic car when I found out he was cheating, and he left to be with his girlfriend. He had just received a new headliner for the car....about $800 worth. He left it in our garage when he moved out. So....I took it out of the box and used the biggest screwdriver I could find to tear it all the way across, from corner to corner. Then I neatly placed it back in the box. He picked it up a few days later, but never asked me what happened to it. Oh, did I forget to mention that I also destroyed the invoice, so it couldn't be returned???
if he payed for it with a credit card he returned it
Glad to see someone with a heart. Life is short people. I know it hurts but be happy you're out of it.
I took my wedding ring to the dirtiest gas station I could find and flushed the sucker. Wish I could have flushed him with it.
When my wine conoisseur, philandering playboy of an ex-husband took off with one of his girlfriends for a week, I took his most precious, most expensive wines and drank 'em like they were soda pop. Then I broke the bottles, which were also worth a good deal of money. Believe me -- that hurt him way more than my walking out on him did.
My ex-wife was a mortgage originator working for a local bank. She secretly re-married six weeks after ending our 20 year marriage and with out preparing our two children...I found out that she had committed mortgage fraud by claiming to live in a house she purchased for her new husband...two weeks after our divorce and even before she re-married. I brought the fraud to her employer's attention...and she was promptly fired!!!
I saw this ad in the local newspaper:
Beautiful off-white wedding dress, size 4, bought at Nordstroms. Worn once by mistake.
My ex-husband abruptly left me so he could move to Texas and take a job with Halliburton. He specifically told me that he didn't want to share his new wealth (150K/year, up from about 50K when we were together). He did say he felt a little bad about it and was willing to give me a generous settlement for our 3-year marriage.
Over the course of a year, he paid almost 20K - he agreed to cover the 1 year lease we'd signed 2 days before he made his announcement as well as some allimony for 1 year.
About a week before the final payment, he called me and said he wouldn't be able to send it as he'd just lost his job. He hinted that he was in financial trouble because he hadn't made as much as they'd originally said he would and was hoping that I could help him out, even hinted that maybe he'd made a mistake by leaving me in the first place. I listened to his sob story and then told him I was sorry, but I was broke and couldn't help him out - and his selfish actions made him far from desirable.
It wasn't really the truth... I had over 15K in the bank - mostly because I'd always been so much better with the finances. Over the next year - I went to Europe twice and treated myself to some wonderful things that I never would have been able to afford was it not for his stupidity.
Well when I found out my ex was with a friend of mine and later moved in together I was furious, but later calmed down and thought about it. His problem now. Well a month of them living together she called me to swing by to drop off some left articles. I decided to go. When I arrived there new love nest I asked to use the bathroom. I proceeded to the restroom and thought to my self..MMMMMM pefect opportunity.
I saw the his and hers toothbrushes, grabbed them and scrapped the gooey ring around the toilet and placed it back. Then spotted the shampoo and body wash and urinated in the bottles. Than the facial scrub . The best, I opend the St Ives canister and mixed kitty litter,fecies and all, and closed the bottle, Washed my hands and left.
The drive home was quite refreshing knowing that I finally had closure of a 14 year relationship.
I think your idea was a good one, but you went a bit too far with the kitty litter.. if not for those little granules, your actions in other areas might not have been discovered until it was too late.
should of crapped in the toliet's tank
i had lived with my then bf for a year when i discovered that he was talking/texting/being gone alot/who knows with other girls by our looking at the shared cell phone bill (both in my name). i kept an eye on him & became more aware of him hiding his phone all the time and the sneakiness of him trying to not get caught.
the lease was ending & he was out of town for work the last few days so i decided to pack up, leave & have him come home to empty place.
i had copied the phone bills (with all the details) and hung them up on the walls all over the apt so he could see his stupidity & know why the apt was empty....and there were LOTS of pages....
I divorced her cheating butt. During the divorce she announced her pregnancy. She then offered me a deal-if I didnt go for paternity, she wouldnt go for child support. Seems she was trying to pin my daughter on her lover. I had begged for a child the entire marriage and damn it I wanted to know if it was mine. Sure enough she was. I am so happy with my daughter now but it really rubs my ex the wrong way when he's around because just knowing my daughter is mine makes her mad. It seems he cant have any more kids because his ex wife had him snipped before she divorced him after finding out about the affair. By the way, the ex is from the Czech Republic. That in itself should tell all you readers what I have gone through and still go through daily.
You should follow the grocery store policy, no personal checks.
Ya know ....all you women have double standards.....you will call the cops if a man yells at you ....but when you want to get 'even' no holds are barred ....get real and get a life
Wow - love the all inclusive statement! Not ALL women are like that.
"you will call the cops if a man yells at you"
Kurt - Please give us your definition of "yell"
I have never called the cops on any man...ever...for any reason.
yes they are there all sisters and how true