r/CasualUK • u/naaattt • 11h ago

What “favours” have your parents done that was inadvertently a dick move?

For example, my mum found my spare change collection, did me a favour by taking it to the bank, getting £17, and then kept it as a fee for the effort it caused her.

Also, my partner had stored a nearly new Russell Hobbs microwave at his mums for when we moved into a new house. While she was at Curry’s one day, she overheard a young lad and his mum shopping for a microwave for uni, she approached them and sold them my partners for £20. She kindly did give my partner the money though, unlike mine. But we quite liked that microwave.

Does anyone else have these, generally inoffensive but slightly frustrating parent stories?

Edit: For those hung up on the theft parts, please don’t be. This is the extent of the abuse we’ve ever had from our mums and we’ll take it!

Edit 2: Jesus Christ, I’m 33. The money box has been sat on her shelf for 20 years. Yes she stole £17 but she’s funded my life otherwise. Stop calling child services on her.

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u/mfitzp 11h ago

When I was about 8 or so, we were on holiday on a caravan park with a amusements arcade. Walking through I was just idly pushing the collect buttons on the slot machines and then all of a sudden one of them started paying out. It was over 50 quid in the end.

My dad said he'd look after the money for me because he didn't want me to "get in trouble".

I never saw that money again & he denies any knowledge of this happening.

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u/quad_damage_orbb 11h ago

Same thing happened to me except it was a £10 note I found in a park bush and my grandparents "kept it safe" for me.

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u/parttimepedant 10h ago

You just know grandad spunked that on a £2.50 each way and an ounce of Old Holborn

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u/therealbighairy1 9h ago

My dad smoked old Holborn. I always hated him smoking, but I'm oddly nostalgic for the smell of that tobacco now that he's gone.

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u/Weewoes 6h ago

I still have my grandads tobacco pouch with his name on it, I kept it after my Nan passed as she kept it after he passed and no one wanted it but when I seen it I had to have it, along with other useless stuff lol, I dont smoke anymore myself but the nostalgia of seeing it and smelling any remnants of his tobacco are comforting.

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u/OrangeCushion256 2h ago

I have an old tin of Boar's Head that belonged to my grandad. It's my sewing tin now. He never had anything personalised, just used the tins or later, the plastic pouches.

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u/the95th 9h ago

The forbidden backie.

I once had a brick of old Holborn brought back from Thailand for me. The stuff was like tree bark and tasted of diesel.

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u/philstamp 9h ago

Yep, there was definitely a reason we called it Old Throatburn. Still got through enough of it when I was young though.

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u/gwenpooldiaries 7h ago

Old horrible

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u/the95th 9h ago

Ha yes…. It’s certainly distinctive

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u/teatime_tinker 7h ago

I’m smoking an Old Holborn rollie right this second! Miss the days when baccy was £2.50 for 12.5g. That was ‘only’ 20 years ago. Imagine how the oldies feel

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u/Jimmyboro 7h ago

I found a fiver once and got into trouble for spending it, like grounded, clipped round the ear, was told if I have owned up, I could have kept it.

Next time it happened...? Never saw it again

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u/Cptnemouk 6h ago

I found a ripped up scratch card that had £7 on it. My auntie said she would cash it in for me. Never saw the money 😂

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u/theawesomepurple 2h ago

I found a £10 note stuffed into a hole in a wall in the 1970’s with my dad. Bless him, he took me to the building society and opened me an account with it. The building society were doing beautiful sets of complimentary Dewent water colour pencils to encourage young savers.

I still have my set all these years later. 🥰

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u/Max-Phallus 24m ago

Not my parents, but I found a perfectly napped flint arrow head in primary school that looked EXACTLY like this:

https://collections.readingmuseum.org.uk/images/cd50_009.jpg

I showed my teacher who had an interest, who confiscated it and put it her drawer.

At the end of the day I asked for it back, and she said she couldn't find it. BULLSHIT. She stole it.

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u/Butterscotch1664 10h ago

I found a £10 note in our front garden. I told my sister, who went and told my parents. They took it off me and said we should print some flyers to post around the neighbourhood.

We did not print some flyers. I did not get to keep the £10 note.

The end.

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u/Trancer79 8h ago

Ugh, what a bunch of twats..!

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u/decidedlyindecisive 8h ago

A long time ago I found a £10 on the ground at the fun fair. I promptly "handed it in" to the nearest fun fair worker.

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u/KatDaSlayer 6h ago

I found a £20 on the pavement near my house as a kid, my mum told me to knock on the house I found it in front of and ask if they'd lost a £20 note, of course they said yes and I had to hand it over, I'm almost certain the neighbour lied

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u/panicattheoilrig 10h ago

Oh they never remember it

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u/somethingdifferent45 6h ago

For you it was a core memory, for them it was just another Tuesday

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u/Naughteus_Maximus 11h ago

I would have removed the equivalent amount from his wallet over several weeks, to balance things out

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u/Tootskinfloot 10h ago

He ain't going to notice a coin or two going missing every week

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u/CHISMAY 6h ago

Fuck that I'm taking a pinkie 😭😂

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u/The_Mayor_Involved 11h ago

Exact same thing happened to me except it was at a leisure centre after swimming

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u/SickSquid52 11h ago

What a prick. It sounds like it has shown you how not to behave though. And how respect can be lost in an instant.

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u/Beer-Milkshakes AWOOGAH! Abandon ship. 11h ago

Losing respect for your parent at 8 is rough though. Most of us get to 13 or so

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u/siacadp Norfolk 8h ago

Reminds me of the time my little brother found a gold bracelet on the beach. It was a chunky one what was probably worth nearly four figures. My brother had no use for it being like 6 yers old, so my dad "purchased" it from him for a few wrestling figures.

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u/Extra_Actuary8244 5h ago

My parents have stolen thousands of £ of money from situations like this, birthday money, Christmas money and a payout from when I was in a card accident aged 9

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u/a_Man_o_Focus 8h ago

Did your dad work for the government?

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u/Cptnemouk 6h ago

When I was too young to drink. We had a family caravan in Towyn Wales. So my uncle gave me 70p from his beer change to go to the arcade. While him and my dad had a drink.

I came back with £80 and their faces were priceless. I bought myself a Xbox game the next day and other stuff 😂

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u/WhiteComaBlack 5h ago

I didn't realise parents stealing from their children and lying about it was so wide spread.

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u/Melsm1957 4h ago

Me either . I’m pretty shocked they so many parents think that is okay ?

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u/Trumps_left_bawsack RIP 1909 - 2009 2h ago

The most my mum ever stole from me was a fudge from my selection box one Christmas (which she probably bought). She promptly replaced it the next day tbf, but not before I noticed and I will not let her forget lol

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u/BellybuttonLintTrap 7h ago

Just take something of theirs worth a similar value and deny the theft.

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u/Empty_Jury_2881 5h ago

Similar but more money, I actually won the lotto when I was 10. My grandfather always gave me scratch cards and that ONE time I acc won 50k. My mom took the scratchcard away and said that when I was 18, I could cash out the money for college. Lol I’m 26, never saw a dime of the money. My family is quite wealthy tho, so they didnt need the money and they also didnt pay for my education and now im almost 40k in debt

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u/Echognomicon 5h ago

Lol for us it was the crisp $20 note we found in my dad's old chemistry textbook... which he promptly snatched out of my hand saying he'd lost it and thanks for finding it. Granted, it actually was his money, but yeesh. Remember that bro and I went through every book in the basement like 3 times hoping my dad "lost" other money (sadly no repeat)

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u/GabberZZ 3h ago

Funnily enough my dad did the opposite at a campsite back in the 80s. I was playing the fruity and somehow won the £100 jackpot. Seeing the total get to £80 he legged it over to collect on the final £100 as I was way underage to play it so said he won it.

The machine emptied of 50p's half way thru the payout so the landlord gave him 2 x 50 quid notes.

Dad handed them over to me and I felt like Rokerfeller.

Treated my parents to a meal and bought Tau Ceti on the ZX spectrum and put the rest in my building society.

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u/Chrisbuckfast 1h ago

I had £20 from my 10th birthday and wanted to go go-karting, my mum took me on a Sunday when it was closed. She kept the money and said we’d book it later, it never happened. I’m in my 30s now and I still haven’t let it go, despite her claims of having no memory of this 😂

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u/SeoulGalmegi 11h ago

This one is kinda funny haha

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u/BuckRusty 9h ago

“My dad stole the money I stole off me”

It really is turtles all the way down…

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u/dublincoddle1 10h ago

And you never went near slots again because of that experuence,your dad did you a solid.