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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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kelsey_LYNN 0
OP - man that really does suck, change locks. : my mom loves trying to clean up my room, but most of the time when she goes in there, she throws away projects i've been working on or other random, yet important, things. I tried making it clear that its my room, my space, but she says i dont get privacy cause its her house.
turdburgers 0
Throw away her shit then. You'll feel better.
XOfiestypixie 0
Aw, that really sucks for you. But I think you should at least say thanks for trying, then explain that although you appreciate her gesture, you'd rather her not throw out anything without asking you. To all you who say the mom's a bitch or whatever, at least she was TRYING to be nice. And a lot of you say your moms do the same thing or would do the same thing. Stop complaining and think about how LUCKY you are to have moms that care about you and try to do helpful things for you. Yes it sucks that sometimes they'll accidentally throw things out, but give them some credit for trying to be nice. Your mom is only human and makes mistakes too. Probably each one of you ruined something of your mom's when you were little, or have accidentally thrown something out you shouldn't have, but she forgave you. As an adult, forgive your mom. She raised you. She obviously loves you. And she'll probably understand your wishes if you don't freak out on her. (P.S I am an artist, of various types; drawing and writing, musician too, and have nearly had some things i wanted thrown out by my mom, but we managed to save it)
shyharmonybear 0
I would've seriously chewed my mom out violently for doing something like that.
carmela93 0
theres only one thing to do. kill her. if not for you, for me. :(
its_erik 0
That happened to me once. My dad decided to go through my computer and permanently delete all the documents that he thought were infected or something. One of those was the 50,000-word novel I'd been working on for five years. His response? "Shit happens. Sucks for you."
Reyo 2
My parents decide to do that ALL THE TIME. They constantly tell me to rearange my bookbag and throw random stuff out, which always includes something important which I need a week or two later. I know I should "pay attention to what I'm throwing out," but it wouldn't happen if I'm left alone to use my own "filing system."
Winkyburger 0
Wow, that really sucks. I also have tons of stuff lying around, but my mom is an artist herself. I feel quite lucky about that after reading this. :/
tari_joon 0
Erm, does your Mum not know that you're an artist? o.o
OPT911 0
This one can't be real! What type of work do you do that she would think it can be thrown out? This could lead to years of therapy for anyone! augh