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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dirtyhippie 0
Damn! - I am sorry to you My mum did this to me once and I am a semi-professional writer. It broke my heart to lose that much for quite a while after.
Essentials 0
That's why you move out and get your own house.
Takaska 0
******* LEARN TO READ!! OP said their mom DROPPED BY- NO MENTION of LIVING with her!! THINK BEFORE YOU TYPE, DAMN IT!
Plasmalaser 11
22-please learn English
rustyrox 0
Time to go dumpster diving!! :)
dmmd8686 0
@ #22 The fact that the OP said his mom "dropped by" seems to imply that he does, in fact, live apart from her.
bumblez 0
Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry.
dmmd8686 0
@ #7 It's pretty common for parents to have keys to their kids' places (and vice versa). You know, for emergencies and things. I'm guessing you don't have your own place judging by your comment.
Leptailurus 0
My mom used to do that to me, too. Doodles and sketches on crappy printer paper (never waste the good stuff for scribbles) would get tossed, but they were concept art for projects I had gotten hired onto! Then I moved 3,000 miles away and this hasn't been a problem since. I'm so sorry for you. FYL for sure. :(
phantomofmusic 0
My mom would do the same thing with my homework assignments for college to "make it clean enough for me to do my homework."
lyndis_fml 0
All parents are controlling assholes, there's no other reason to create a creature you can legally control for 18 years. Why would you give her a key when you can finally be rid of her for good?
urbwzrd 0
She doesn't your know your job? :| But yeah, moms! who knows the way they think! :))
cxal_fml 0
I've had similar happen - nothing so severe though. But like I had papers I had no use for in a pile, and I had my study guides in with my notes, only to find my study and guides were thrown away and my junk papers were saved by someone who had no business touching either