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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IAmBridgette 0
Oh my god oh my god oh my god! I'm an artist as well-not professional-but if someone EVER did that to me I would set their house on fire. Seriously.
irockmonkeysocks 0
When she asks why you didn't send christmas cards, just tell her that she threw them away.
SlntCobra1 0
Damn man, I would be so pissed off. I mean, does she know you're a full time artist or what? You really didn't deserve this. In fact, it's an invasion of privacy. Illegal under the fourth amendment. Sue her for however much you think that 7 months of work was worth.
i_luv_puppies 1
How is being an artist not a real occupation? A job is that thing you do to earn a paycheck right? Who do you think does all the special effects in your favorite action film? Who do you think are MAKING all movies? There is more to an artist that "being inspire" then painting on a canvas. Although there's nothing wrong with that either! I think everyone that dissing artist are extremely close minded, and jealous that they're stuck in some pathetic cublicle job making peanuts! I think it's awesome that the OP has a career that they are passionate about! I am curently in school working towards a major in Human Biology with an emphasis on genetics and biotechnology. Now don't get me wrong, I love science, I love learning how things work and I love all the work that I do! In a year and a half I will graduate and go on to med school, or pharm school, or grad school (hopefully I'll have it figured out by then! lol!) and I'm sure I will end up with a career that will make me very happy, HOWEVER if I were able to have any career in the world, it sure as hell wouldn't be a friggin' pharmacist! To be able to make a career out of doing what you love is an accomplishment, not an easy way out! Sorry about your loss OP, I hoped you made it clear that throwing out your stuff is a no no!
lampshade131 0
can't be to successful if your still living with mom, huh? probably best she threw them away...
pat1919 0
he said his mom "dropped by" that doesnt mean he lives with her, just that he has a key to his house
IslandLove 0
I get pissed when something like that happens to me
mrmerino 0
bitch at your mom for 30 minutes about invading your personal property, and bitch and moan and shit.
DaxBane 1
I had a similair experience - in my earlier years as a young teenager, I was a hobby developer (and had my own paid-for-by-self computer setup to boot). My mother decided to take it upon herself to go rifling through all my personal files and delete anything not directly related to my schoolwork. I kissed 5 years of irreplacable reference, prototypes and working projects goodbye - she kissed her 40GB hdd (which was about as large as it got back then) goodbye when I summarily took to it with a sledgehammer, oh how karma is a bitch :)
unfortunatevent 0
I would be so furious. That really bites.
CSRozell 4
wow that's ******* horrible I'd be in that trash and then to moms to kick her ass