Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML
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Today, my mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. FML
Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML
Today, after I got home from school I went to my room to find the maid had cleaned it, also to find a bag labeled "trash" it was all the sketches and paintings I had done in art class, which is my major plan for college. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I offered to let my niece and brother stay at my apartment, as my brother was going through a rough divorce and had lost his job. After coming home from work, I found my niece had snapped all of my pencils and had ruined over ten years worth of artwork. FML
Today, I found out that my art project, the one I've been working on for the last two weeks and the first piece I felt really comfortable about turning in, was stolen out of the art cupboard. FML
Today, while sitting on a bench drawing, some guy went up to me, yelled, “YOUR ART SUCKS” and flipped my sketchpad out of my hands. I’d been working on that piece for hours and now there’s a big black pencil streak on it. FML
Today, my dad went through my room while I was out and threw away the "inappropriate pictures" that he found. They're the nudes I've been working on for art class. FML
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girlnamedkris 0
Oh my god. That's rough... Is your mom actually delusional though? Possibly mentally challenged? Did she throw away your drawings as a child? Jesus. You definitely did not deserve this one. Condolences...
tonia_fml 0
daaaaaaamn. i'm really sorry. you never throw away an artists' papers
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OMGQueenB 0
#43 and #99, I bet you the OP earns more money than you do. Thus making it a proper job. As #68 said, artists animate movies and so on. It's a good job to have, and it's a more difficult job to do - anyone can work in an office 9 to 5, but artists have a real talent. OP, your mother's a douche. I reckon you should go round to hers, and clean out all of her favourite stuff, see how she likes that.
ryan__h 1
not going to say ydi but you could have scanned your drawings into a computer so you would have a digital copy
NonchalantSavant 0
Look up parental enmeshment. And get a good counselor.
love_jd13 0
That's just devastating. All of your hard work! :( I know how it is, I get pretty attached to my work, too... but this was all you had for your JOB! Ugh. Best wishes in trying to undo some of the damage.
HeyyTonie 0
That does suck, I'm sorry. My mom always moves my car out of the way, and in the process, takes things out. Then one day, she took out the donation money that I was collecting, and almost threw them out with her papers, so I know the feeling.
Stacia 0
ugh, that's gotta hurt. Seriously, though. Dumpster dive. It's the only way. FYLx2. :(
Lonely_Lez 0
#99, when something you put effort into provides you with money for you to live on, that's a job. When someone makes statements that have no basis in reality or fact and claims they are true, they're an imbecile.
patray_angel 0
Wow, some of you are real assholes. The OP shouldn't have to put everything away in his/her own PLACE! Their mom should have known better. It is bad enough that should stop by, let herself in, and just decide to clean, but to actually throw shit away! It sounds like the mom needs a hobby if she has that much time on her hands. To the others, an artist is a real job you dumbasses! To the OP, I sooo soo sorry that that happened to you! You definitely need to have a talk with your mom about boundaries.
Lythiaren 8
Ugh, this sounds like something my mother would do. She's given up on trying to clean my room, but when my room was gutted to redo the floor and walls, all my stuff was in the living room. She'd constantly try to "clean up" my stuff and, in the process, move it or throw away any misplaced sketches or sculptures she got her hands on, and she would always do this to me when she thought I wasn't home to catch her at it. I flipped the hell out on her when she tried to toss a sculpture that I'd been working on, which she had already damaged severely, setting that project back weeks. The worst part is that when she threw away or moved MY STUFF, she would then complain when I couldn't find anything. When SHE'S the one who moved it and refused to tell me where she put it. Also @106: A digital copy is a copy. The mom threw away originals, which by definition are not recoverable without redrawing them or dumpster diving.
mynameisnotjudie 0
I'm sure it's been said before, but oh my God that's so terrible! = ( As a writer, I understand - there's no way you can get that stuff back. 7 months?? I would be praying the garbage didn't get taken away yet