Today, I came home to find my entire action figure collection was gone. My parents told me I am too old for toys, so they opened all of the packages and donated them to Goodwill. I had an original Boba Fett, and my entire collection was worth more than twenty thousand dollars. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mother sold my extensive Star Wars collection, and I cried when I found out. I'm 46. FML
Today, I got home from work to find my wife asleep in her easy chair with my two year old son asleep in a pile of torn-up paper. I soon found out it was my 1960s collection of a Superman comic book series that I inherited from my dad. It was worth well over $2,000. FML
Today, I invited a friend over and showed him my collectible action figures. He also collects the ones I do. There was this one particular rare one I own, and he was quite fascinated by it. It mysteriously vanished after he went home. He claims to know nothing about it, and got pissed for accusing him. 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, my dad said I need to stop playing with toys and threw my lightsaber out of the window. It was a replica of the Lightsaber used by Mark Hamill, made from the same type handle from a 1970s camera, just like the film prop. It was over 40 years-old and worth thousands. Not anymore, as it's now scratched and in two pieces. FML
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
Today, I went to the store to buy a new lego set, only to find there weren't any left in stock. I started crying before I could make it out of the store. Oh, and I'm eighteen. FML
Today, my dad bought a one hundred dollar collectible light-saber. He plays with it. In the front yard. With sound effects. FML
Today, I got home to find my entire video game collection and all my consoles had been stolen. Two weeks ago I brought them back from my University accommodation, specifically to stop them from being stolen while I was at home for the Christmas holiday. FML
Today, I got home and found my kids playing with my coin collection. My wife told me to stop being grouchy because it’s not like they’re silver and gold. No, but they were all mint condition, some of them very rare, and every scratch the kids just put on them has halved their value or worse. FML
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Phillycheeze 20
Pay back is a bitch. Remember this sad event...When you pick out a nursing home for your folks....
aruden 25
Why would they go through all the trouble of opening them if they were going to donate them? Sorry for your loss by the way.
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aruden 25
Why would they go through all the trouble of opening them if they were going to donate them? Sorry for your loss by the way.
Sam Siggers 8
First he wasn't going to ever donate them. They are action figures that are worth alot of money in their original packaging. My guess was he was keeping them for years, so in another few more years they would be worth alot more. He could sell one for like 20k. Why would you donate a figure thats worth 20k thats utter stupidity. Especially it going to kids.
aruden 25
I don't think you read my comment. I asked why "they", his parents, would open all of the boxes if they planned to turn around and donate them. Why would they not just donate them in their original boxes.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Sam Siggers you misunderstood the question. Why would THE PARENTS go through the trouble of opening the packages when they were just going to donate the toys, which is what the FML says they did. Basically why, if they were simply donating, wouldn't they just give over the packaged toys? Unless of course they were totally aware of what they were doing and wanted to destroy they value while ensuring their child would never get money for "doing nothing" as some people say about collecting and selling things.
Sam Siggers 8
What question did i misunderstood? Cause the fml isnt a question, its a statement. Unless you or someone asked me something or the op a question but i dont remember it or see it. The fml was about him losing 20 grand worth of action figures. Who would actually care about them going through the trouble of opening them to donate them when they are worth alot more. Sorry but the op isnt thinking, why did they open them just to donate them. they are thinking why the **** are my parents so stupid they have to touch my stuff and get rid of it. He is literally down 20k, id be pissed about the loaing the action figures rather then them taking the time to open them to donate them. Like shit they aint very hard to open up at all, wouldnt of taken them long and maybe they were thinking young children, plastic.. dont eant kids cutting themselves or whatever with it
Sam Siggers 8
What question did i misunderstood? Cause the fml isnt a question, its a statement. Unless you or someone asked me something or the op a question but i dont remember it or see it. The fml was about him losing 20 grand worth of action figures. Who would actually care about them going through the trouble of opening them to donate them when they are worth alot more. Sorry but the op isnt thinking, why did they open them just to donate them. they are thinking why the **** are my parents so stupid they have to touch my stuff and get rid of it. He is literally down 20k, id be pissed about the loaing the action figures rather then them taking the time to open them to donate them. Like shit they aint very hard to open up at all, wouldnt of taken them long and maybe they were thinking young children, plastic.. dont eant kids cutting themselves or whatever with it
Josh Sovs 7
20k worth of collectables and still living at home with Mom and Dad? I feel bad for you, but this is a YDI.
PhoenixChick 26
You do know that collectibles like that are cheap when you buy them and accumulate value over the years, right? Boba Fett figures didn't cost 20 grand in the 70s. Odds are that collection cost a kid their allowance money over the years and now is valuable enough for that adult to buy a house.
GUYMAINE 16
you are a stupid.
Rabite 28
Well if he bought it in the 70s and still lives at home..
riley873 21
Find a lawyer! A.S.A.G.D.M.F.P.
Phillycheeze 20
Pay back is a bitch. Remember this sad event...When you pick out a nursing home for your folks....
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
print off the research then show those dumb ***** their stupidity
Vanderdale 14
That's theft. Depending on how good a relationship you'd like to have with your parents I'd be showing your parents the value of the toys they just gave away and demanding they pay back every cent of their worth if they don't want to get hit with charges of felony grand larceny.
RichardPencil 32
Dolls too old you are for...
GUYMAINE 16
stupid you are
Balthios 6
can't you file civil action? it is theft, and if it's worth that much then action should be taken
Takegami 22
Theft
BetterThanU 1
That'll teach you to be a geek virgin who still lives with Mommy. YDI
Kameron Kriese 11
There is nothing wrong with any of those things, you however, are an egotistical fool who judges based on liitle to no information.
Tony Friddle 11
dude, what. it's called hobby collecting.... dumbass
GUYMAINE 16
you realize you can have all of this by the time you're 10-14 right? idiot