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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Sorrel 0
"Why would you give your mom the key to your house. Are you an idiot?" Wow 121, you must really not like your mom or something, the rest of us trust our parents. Except when it comes to art, then they are clueless what is good and what isn't. Yeah, I would have been very, very pissed off about that. Sorry, at lease people agree that this sucks. I at least hope you kept some of the ideas, or maybe sketches somewhere else?
ohhhhshizzz 0
Uhh, hello??? How being an artist, NOT, a job? Huh? ANYONE can do an office job. Artists get paid ******* big time. They create the cartoons, the comic books, the paintings, the movies. So being an artists does not only involve painting things, no. You do a lot of things. And when someone pays you to do something, that is called a job. Jackasses, like really are you that dense? Gahh. People are so idiotic. OP: Uhhh, I hate when my mom throws out my stuff. Like I never throw anything of hers out but she does it to me, and she comes in my room going through everything. RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! But what YOUR mom did, I'd be so upset. My mom also threw out a notebook of poems & lyrics. Angry. I hope you take away her key, or atleast let her know, unless there is an emergency NOT to go into your home again; without you there.
icanhazstapler 0
Time to go dumpster diving. Seriously though, if you want them back you better hurry up!
greeneggsnsam 0
who clicks YDI for this one? OP: that sucks XP
Raptorbane 0
Damn that sucks :( I draw too, and I make sure my whole family knows that if they throw my stuff out I'd crush them. If they find anything of mine they just leave it in my room. FYL.
grapenutsrbt 0
Your mom is a ******* idiot.
Guyoverhere 0
Get a lock
Ultraviolet_fml 0
omggg... that's stressing me out just thinking about it T_T i'm an artist, too, i can imagine how horrible that would be.. i'm so sorry. i hope you can redo at least some of the sketches--i know once i've drawn something once, it's stuck in my memory and i can usually recreate it
4bbaf9d3caaa8f84 20
#133, the OP said that his mother "dropped" by which implies that he has his own place which means that he does have a lock. His mother probably had a copy of the key for emergencies. #119, "artist isn't a real jobs anyway." Not only is this comment very ignorant since artists earn money for creating cartoons, movies, comic books (etc...) which technically makes it a job but your comment is also grammatically wrong.
Jaguaress 2
First of all, your mom sucks. You're an adult and she comes over to your place and just throws things away? How would she like it if you went through her linen closet- or workspace - and threw stuff away, too? That is the worst invasion of privacy I've heard of in a while. Second, you should ALWAYS have copies of everything you've done. Not only in hardcopy, but on discs, zip drives and many duplicate ways. You never know if the roof is going to leak all over your things, or if the computer is going to crash. I really hate your mom was so horrible, but you absolutely were negligent in not having copies. I speak from experience, considering I'm a budding author, and photographer, and I had no copies of any of my work, other than what was on my computer and what was in one photo album. My computers were stolen from my house when I was robbed last year, and any actual photographs I had were destroyed when they trashed my place. Everything is/was gone... Learn from me!