Today, I discovered that my parents rooted through our house looking for junk to sell at a garage sale. They sold all of my books from my bookshelf. When I freaked, out my mom said 'well you never read them'. There was about $300 hidden between the pages of those books. They made $60. FML
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Today, I was at work when my mother called. She gave me great news that she had finally cleaned out my room and all those "old and useless" books that I had in there. Those "useless" books that she had just trashed were all antiques and worth about $500 each. There were 27 books in there. FML
Today, I came home to find that my mother had sold all my valuable collector coins for cheap at a local shady pawn shop to buy herself a TV. The coins in question were worth enough to start a business. FML
Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, my mum is convinced I'm a hoarder. While I was out of the house, she went through my room and threw out stuff I "don't need." This included $500 worth of textbooks, a flash drive with crucial work on it, and my phone charger. FML
Today, I had a garage sale and sold some books I don't read anymore. A woman came up and yelled at me, saying I'd stolen one of the books from her house. I later found out that it was a distraction so that her boyfriend could steal my TV. FML
Today, I was helping my mom look for some money she'd misplaced. At my wit's end, I flipped through her diary, in case she'd hidden it between the pages as she has before. Didn't find the money, but I did find out she might well be cheating on my dad. FML
Today, I found out that my parents are 28,000 dollars in debt and that my bank account has $27.17 in it. They took my money to help pay their debt. FML
Today, I frantically told my parents that my bank account had no money. Turns out, they took the $1,600 I had saved up from a summer job and invested it in penny-stocks. I was grounded because they were "doing it for the family," and I'm being selfish. They also had lost it all in a matter of days. FML
Today, I went to my grandma's yard sale, only to find my baby pictures being sold for 25 cents each. FML
Today, I told my mom about the $50 I'd hidden in case of an emergency, and how I couldn't find it. She said she'd borrowed it last week. FML
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Intoxicunt 6
$60 will cover a shovel, duct tape, a large knife, and some trash bags... all with enough left over to go out and have a couple beers.
e11ie 0
How could someone possibly deserve this? Despite your opinion on how to store your money, her mother had no right to root through a house that didn't belong to her and take items without permission. File a police report for burglary. This is flat out theft.
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Sadae 0
I'm sorry but your parents are dumb asses if they didn't even try to ask you. I hate parents who snoop through shit then has the nerve to act all innocent when they did something wrong.
Nightfallz 0
it's called a bank idiot. who hides money in books and beds and shit. tax evader that's who
israelnotjacob 20
Your parents are jerks for just selling your stuff without even asking, but I voted YDI because you're very stupid to hide your money in books like a little kid saving up for a bike or something. Anyone who is older than 10 should know enough to put their money in the bank.
shootingstar8D 0
Time for a new money hiding spot
midwestjerk 0
What the **** is wrong with your parents? You sorta deserve to lose the money for where you hid it, but what the ******* **** is wrong with those wastes of life that they sold all of your books because you "don't read them"? Your parents must be deeply ignorant people. Sabotage their car (just a little bit, so you won't get caught!), wait for the inevitable accident, and collect the life insurance money. Either that, or photoshop some stuff up to make it look like one of them is cheating on the other. Destroying their marriage will be kinda fun. :)
Bullshet 0
So why were you keeping that much money in a book? Should've tried putting it somewhere safer like a bank or a ******* wallet. YDI
AshleyRose784 0
there's this place called a bank, use it
alwaysalady 0
Weather it was responsible to hide your money ina book or not, its besides the point. OP's parent's should have respected her things. And I hide money in a book when I was a kid. Its not weird. Its true if you want to spend your money on something you shouldn't hand it over to your parent's to put in that child's savings account. You may never see it again. (My parents spent mine iwth the intend of paying me back. They didn't)
MrJenkins 0
i understand why ur not using a bank cuz of all those gay charges, but come on! USE A WALLET!!!
AcesAndEights 0
wtf #101? Who carries 300 in their wallet? Do you want to be mugged?
Hav0c 0
Mrc0cksucker, some people don't like to keep 300+ fricken dollars in their wallet in case it became stolen or lost dumbass, so STFU and GTFO. And to you other people, how is it a stupid idea to put your money in books? It's not, go f*ck yourself. Hardly a percentage or criminals read books, therefor it's a decent hiding spot because no one is going to look there!!