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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Comments (210)
Brolin 4
******* moms are retarded, I don't get why people think they're doing you a favor for cleaning stuff for you, they usually throw away lots of stuff you need, my dad at least takes papers and either asks me if I need them still, or leaves them if I'm not there in a pile so I can decide
ihfpfml 0
I know somebody who doesn't have a key to your place anymore.
Ughsucks 0
artist isn't a real jobs anyway.
GR3453m0nk3y 4
# 115 number 106 meant to say a scan. not a digital copy. with a scan you can save the image on a computer
Weil 0
Why would you give your mom the key to your house. Are you an idiot?
Lythiaren 8
#120, you didn't read my whole post. A scan IS a digital copy of something. A copy is still not an original.
pleasetryagain 0
a. I'm sure his mother knows what he does. My mother knows that I'm an artist and still gets annoyed because I have a ton of paintings and old sketchbooks. Fortunately, she knows well enough to just nag me about it over the phone instead of tossing it out herself. b. How is "artist" not a real job? So people working full time for ad agencies, animation studios, video game companies and museums just goof off all day?
punksafetypin 0
I hate when mothers do that. Mine is already trained, haha! I study Graphic Design and I often have a mess on my table... now she knows she can't throw anything away, even if it looks like garbage -because it's probably my next assignment- XD. I had to educate the cleaning lady though... I found her putting pieces of my assignment in a trash bag once... now she's to scared of touching anything that remotely looks like college work. :P OP, hope you've already changed you lock!
tapesculpture 0
your mom's retarded..
fortunesque 0
I live by myself and my mom has my spare key. If things are going rough for me, and I'm busy with projects (I'm an artist as well), my mom is kind enough to come down and clean my kitchen or whatnot. Who's going to say no to free cleaning, right? But the work space of an artist (or anyone for that matter) is a place to stay away from. OP, it's great to have a caring mom, but damn... that's the worst luck ever. FYL for sure.