By Lucachoo - 22/09/2015 00:35 - United States - San Francisco

Today, my boyfriend cooked us a romantic dinner using the oven. The oven he recently hid $3,000 in for safekeeping. We essentially just spent thousands of dollars on a casserole. FML
I agree, your life sucks 22 857
You deserved it 12 584

Lucachoo tells us more.

So yeah, storing money in the oven is a terrible idea. My bf (we'll call him Huck because he's a dumbass) is a bit paranoid and insisted on hiding the money somewhere where burglars couldn't find it. I told him it was fine since our nearest neighbors are a couple miles away but he insisted so I just gave up. Didn't realize that idiot would hide the cash in the oven then have a huge brain fart and use the oven to cook. We aren't complete idiots though, we do keep our life savings in the bank. The reason Huck put money in the oven was because we live on a farm that's a bit distant from the nearest major bank. We keep some money on hand in case something breaks and we have to fix it or make repairs and such. It's quicker when we have the money on hand. Otherwise we'd have to spend a couple hours driving to the bank, buying supplies, then coming back. Also while money does burn at 451 degrees, 451 degrees is the auto-ignition point of paper (the temperature that paper catches fire without being exposed to an external flame). So if the air temperature was 451 degrees the money would have burned but Huck put the money at the bottom of the oven, right on top of the hot metal burner thingy (I don't know what it's called) and that metal thing gets red hot. But yeah, Huck realized his stupidity after the oven finished preheating and managed to save some of the money though a third of it still burned to some degree. I'm still pretty pissed regardless and kinda feel like shoving Huck into the oven as well. The fact that he was trying to be nice by cooking dinner is the only thing preventing me from completely going apeshit on him. The first thing I'm making him do is go to the bank and try to replace the money. And he will never be in charge of safekeeping money ever again.

Top comments

Well hiding money in an oven isn't a very good idea. Takes a whole new meaning to burning through cash.

exoticDeath 20

Why would you even THINK of hiding $3,000 in a oven? That's like withdrawing all the money in your savings account so you can have something to throw into the fire when you go camping.

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andro6657 10

So you all never used the oven until then?

Geckosrock99 33

Umm... Hello? Ever heard of a safe, bank account, or safety deposit box? There are much better ways to keep your money safe. Heard way too many stories about burning things in the oven due to using it for storage. Out of sight, out of mind happens more often than you think.

How could you possibly forget about where you stashed $3,000?! Is that an insignificant sum to you??

How did he not see it when he put the casserole in ?

He probably did see when he put the casserole in. The problem is that most recipes call for you to preheat the oven for fifteen minutes or so before actually adding the food in to cook. That means that what probably happened was he stupidly failed to check the oven before turning it on to preheat and then when he went to put the casserole in realized the money was destroyed.

Well if your boyfriend can't come up with a better place to keep his life savings (places like a bank comes to mind), then he deserved it.

You could've just gotten a small fire proof safe for like $150 like a normal person would do if you wanted that $3000 in a place for "safe keeping" or put in a bank account!

You *almost* deserve it for having such a stupid boyfriend omg