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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lives_ppl 0
Omg I absolutely hate it when people try to clean my room. They always throw out important stuff. That's why I have made it clear to them to never try to clean my room
MrZach 0
I agree with #7. The whole point of having your own place is the freedom and independence. Regardless of how messy or whatever it is, thats how i want it. when i really want a room clean it will be. even if my mom asked for a key she wouldnt get one, id give one to my friends first. And if she did get her hands on a key, id be at home depot 20 mins later, buying new locks. cause if she "got her hands on one", it means she was trying too hard. Gl bro. LOL @ #43. It's harder than a "real job". You don't only have to be intelligent, you have to be creative and diligent. In some cases, even a genius. Get your facts straight kid.
akiro525 3
my mum did that once by accident to my course work, very frurtrating but cant really say anything.
Tori_xoxo 0
>:l make her go dumpster diving.
illeyad 0
#43 you're an idiot, who do you think animates movies who puts in CGI affects in almost every film out there? Artists, so don't diss the job! OP I am so sorry as a fellow artist I can understand how frustrating it is when parents don't (try to) understrand your work. Once I made a a wonderful sketch of my father for Father's Day, the only thing I couldn't get right was the teeth. After I gave it to him, he through it out the next day because he didn't like how he looked in the picture. Hopefully you could still dig your work out of the trash to salvage it. Good luck!
mrdblq 6
I remember my mom threw out several hours worth of homework while cleaning my dorm room once, that sucked bad enough. You, however, should look into how much money was lost and tell her she is paying for it. If she wont, you can sue for it. You should also go to her house every day and randomly throw things out. I would also say push her down some stairs but I wont.
Tori_xoxo 0
^^^^ Hehe. :D 69. O_o
kcslgvr 11
my mom does that sometimes too. she decides to throw away all of my school papers and take stuff out of my room that she wants, which is really frustrating. but what your mom did was so much worse than anything that has happened to me. i am very sorry for you losses and i hope that your mom will understand that what she did was inexcusable and rude. and dont listen to 69 when it comes to throwing out some of her stuff. you don't want to stoop so low.
calikit 0
I too have suffered an overzealous "helpful" moron parent. I had a thriving little online business in high school. She raided my box of stock and threw out a bunch of stuff she thought was rubbish. Which I had already sold... Change your locks. I'd never give mine a key in a million years. FYL dude.
jonnymohio 2
1st: Change the locks. 2nd: Bill your mom for the work lost, so she knows exactly how much it cost you and what it was worth. And she'll finally realize what you do for a living.