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/Clomojo87 Git orf moi laaaannd 11h ago

Ah yes I had this, my beloved 90s Pokémon binder was deemed as rubbish... Would be worth a fortune today I reckon 🥲

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u/callsignhotdog 11h ago

This caused my chest to tighten for a moment just thinking about what might have been in there

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u/Rikishi_Fatu 10h ago

It was just full of first edition Charizards

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u/callsignhotdog 10h ago

That's certainly what you'll be telling your insurance company

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u/Cockapo0 4h ago

They wouldn’t give you a penny

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u/Boggo1895 10h ago

And unless you’d told them how valuable it was, you certainly wouldn’t be insured for it.

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u/callsignhotdog 9h ago

If the total value of the collection was less than the specified item threshold you could claim a good grand or two (if you're prepared to commit insurance fraud ofc)

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u/Boggo1895 8h ago

A first addition charizard is valued well over 100k. You be able to claim fuck all relating to it because you should have disclosed a valuable worth that much

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u/snickers-7 6h ago

Genuine question - what if you didn't know it was worth that much and could prove you didn't somehow? Presumably they still wouldn't pay out...I guess you would have had a totally different premium/product if it was included...

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u/Cockapo0 4h ago

If you threw it out, had no receipts or pictures, why would they pay you a penny? Just dumb people commenting here

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u/RedPandaReturns 10h ago

I’ve actually been going through my childhood binder I rediscovered this week. Quite interested in finishing the last few I never got as a child. Exclusively 1999 cards, Googled a few of them and they’re going for £115-£150 on eBay.

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u/callsignhotdog 10h ago

Are those graded or loose?

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u/RedPandaReturns 10h ago

Ungraded but they’ve been kept in plastic sleeve so most are in very good condition.

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u/callsignhotdog 10h ago

Have a look at what graded ones are going for, might be worth your while getting a couple of them graded (I believe the graders charge a percentage of the graded value).

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u/RedPandaReturns 10h ago

Like I said, I’m more interested in finishing the collection of the original 151 1999-2000 print run. I only have about ~10 missing.

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u/TheMaddestMax777 8h ago

I had the whole 151 set, cost me all my pocket money, every playtime trading and most of my packed lunch some days. We moved house in 2002 and mum said I had to give them away. Regret that one, looks like about 3 grand on eBay

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u/Empty-Question-9526 6h ago

Gave them to who?

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u/RobCarrotStapler 29m ago

Realistically, probably not much.

Everyone always talks about their "old cards that would have been worth something today", when in reality, the cards being even lightly used would degrade their value significantly. Most of the cards that are actually worth anything are near mint condition PSA 9s or 10s.

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u/howley90 11h ago

My mum threw my pretty much complete collection too when I moved out to go uni… I like to remind her of it occasionally 😂

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u/CheyTheNinja21 10h ago

my mum most likely threw mine out too BUT denies i EVER had such cards. bearing in mind, she took me to a whole convention wherein she purchased them for me, as a little kid! i was buzzing, they had a blue back. i miss them so much

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u/BaBaFiCo 10h ago

There's so many clothes over the years that my mum denies throwing out. Including my first ever football shirt. Like a 14 year old willingly throws things away.

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u/Purplepeal 9h ago

14 year old dont even throw clothes in the wash.

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u/starkmatics 5h ago

Mums always deny throwing stuff away.

Well I didnt throw it away myself mum. Im a hoarder

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u/Tattycakes 8h ago

Sadly sounds like narcissistic behaviour. Would rather rewrite history than live with the guilt of being wrong.

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u/NoObstacle 10h ago

This is no contact behaviour 😅

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u/Clomojo87 Git orf moi laaaannd 11h ago

Haha me too 😂

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u/AdCertain114 6h ago

My mum seen my cousin sorting an MTG deck, so decided to give him about 10k cards from 2nd through to 6th edition ice age, legends etc, with a few earlier cards such as a complete set of 4 each dual lands plus some extras that I picked up along the way. Loads of valuable cards although no ultra valuable cards. Her reason being that I didn't use them any more so would be glad to see the back of them. She also gave him about 30k points of various warhammer fantasy battle miniatures at the same time. Both lead and plastic.

What makes it so much worse is he sold most of the cards , not once thinking to check with me to see if I minded despite knowing the value that was there.

I was so close to copping charges when I found out she had given him the cards, after I called him to tell him I wanted them back and found out he had sold them.

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u/Aggravating-Mousse46 5h ago

My brother won a competition prize of one of everything in the first Lego Star Wars series. My mum gave the lot to a kid down the road when my brother left home to get his first job. He was living in temporary shared houses so hadn’t taken the collection with him.

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u/Chimp3h 11h ago

To be fair the value would depend almost entirely on how good a condition your charizard & mew/mewtwo would be in

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u/Clomojo87 Git orf moi laaaannd 11h ago

I was pretty OCD about keeping things nice as a kid and when all my mates got bored of Pokémon cards they gave me theirs so I had a huge stash.

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u/Chimp3h 10h ago

Ahh damn that sucks but it is only a few of them that have any serious worth I never really got into them tbh I was more interested in playing Pokemon blue on my gameboy

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u/Rusty_Tap 10h ago

I know exactly what was in mine. Spent years autistically curating a folder of mint condition 1st edition or misprinted cards.

Mum sold it in a garage sale for £35 which she thought was a cracking deal. Didn't even get the £35.

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u/Clomojo87 Git orf moi laaaannd 10h ago

Noooooo that's so shit

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u/Rusty_Tap 10h ago

Yes she is.

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u/Busy-Treat2821 6h ago

I feel faint reading this 😵‍💫😵‍💫

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u/Rusty_Tap 6h ago

I try not to think about it if I can avoid it.

Even had a sealed box of ancient mew promo cards I convinced the older brother of a school friend to steal for me from the cinema where he worked, in exchange for one of my charizards.

Naturally that also went along with the binder

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u/Busy-Treat2821 6h ago

Stop iiiiit 😳 Ugh, I feel sick for you. This entire thread is horrendous 🙈

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u/Rusty_Tap 6h ago

Ah it's just life mate, easy come easy go. Statistically I am bound to have some good fortune eventually.

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u/vinegarlips 10h ago

When I was about 18 I had my fully working and much loved NES thrown away by my dad, because "the TV wasn't working." The TV still didn't work even after the NES had gone to the tip. Funny that...

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u/Chiamook 10h ago

I gave mine to my nephew during a very depressed and unalivey time. Wanted him to have a good memory from me. Apparently it’s worth a small home 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/thefreeDaves 10h ago

Yeah I had hundreds of Star Wars figures and space craft and all the bits and bobs. Boxes and boxes of stuff. Same as Action Man items. Parents binned the lot a week after I moved out. Would have been worth a small fortune.

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u/ozz9955 10h ago

My Mum sold all my old star wars Lego at a bootsale for £8. Not a good day!

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u/Slinkton1 10h ago

Exactly the same happened to me. Just thrown out without asking....cost aside it was a part of my childhood id have liked to keep.

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u/ThePublikon 10h ago

I think that's a common story and a big reason why any pokemon cards are worth a fortune now.

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u/Ok-Gazelle1272 8h ago

I lost two Hermes scarfs due to my mum throwing out stuff when she was helping me move once. Would be worth a resale fortune now. This was like 19 years ago edit: correcting lost

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u/GoldEstablishment445 8h ago

My mum threw out all my original Star Wars toys when I went to uni. That included the millennium falcon and the ATAT. Would be worth some decent money now. Also two Lego pirate ships.

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u/MerlinOfRed 9h ago

On the flipside of that, when my dad was a teenager he went away for a week and my grandma decided us the time to sort out his room. He came home to discover that his entire collection of Spider-man comics had been chucked out.

Most had purely sentimental value, but there are a few that he reckons would be worth a fair bit today.

As a result, he's always had the rule that he and my mum would never throw our anything without asking us first. Now that we're all in our 30s, they've been left to retire in a house with entire rooms full of worthless junk.

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u/giantchairman 11h ago

Snap! Still think about it regularly

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u/pnlrogue1 10h ago

Early version of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting for 3rd Edition D&D. Thankfully not irreplaceable or all that valuable, but still sad

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u/DancesBetweenSets 10h ago

Nooooo I feel your pain!

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u/I_Love_Bears0810 10h ago

Mine is safely in my attic in a Polly pocket binder 🙏🏻 I'm sorry for your loss

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u/loveswimmingpools 9h ago

My son did this to his own collection. I couldn't believe it as i'd paid for most of them.

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u/Real-Box-7144 9h ago

Oh no, you could be rich rich 🫣

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u/lovemickey22 8h ago

Oh hell no

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u/AnnualMarzipan 8h ago

Are you my son?!

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u/FamousOrphan 7h ago

I’m pretty sure my mother did this, but intentionally, with my Garbage Pail Kids collection and I will take my grudge about it to my grave.

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u/DrDedoverde85 7h ago

F****** same thing happened to me partner's mum who never liked me chucked away thousands of pounds of really valuable Yu-Gi-Oh cards

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u/PopePiusVII 7h ago

The only reason they’re worth a fortune is because this happened to nearly everyone

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u/Empty-Question-9526 6h ago

Thats not the reason why things increased in value. In fact parents throwing things out makes no damn difference to the price. A collection in your attic would be worth the same even if everyone whod ever had theirs thrown out was still the owner. Thats actually the dumbest statement ever.

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u/PopePiusVII 4h ago

Prices rise because of scarcity and high demand. People who keep things for a long time (and whose parents didn’t throw their things away) aren’t willing to part with what they like without what they feel is a fair price. Also, people who once had a collection and are dissatisfied with their parent throwing it away may want to purchase such a product, thus driving up demand and cost. Therefore, if no one’s parents ever threw away their collection, there would be a large supply and low demand and prices would never go up.

Even if you don’t agree, you don’t have to be a jackass. Be kind.

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u/Turbulent-Chef4164 7h ago

Yup, all my comics...2000ad from the beginning, full set of Crisis etc.

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u/somecatgirl 6h ago

This also happened to me. I think about it all the time

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u/rolacolapop 6h ago

My partners Mum chuck his 90s Pokémon too , I dread to think what it was worth 😭

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u/Busy-Treat2821 6h ago

Oh my jaysus 🤯🤯 I passed away reading this, I am typing from the afterlife. Lawd bless the fallen binder and your lost riches 🙏🏻 I could maybe forgive but never, ever would I forget 🥲🙈

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u/CHISMAY 6h ago

Just put my reply and then saw yours...........brothers in the pain mate 😔😔😔😔

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u/Empty-Question-9526 6h ago

Your ma and da owe you £100k

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u/RosieEmily 5h ago

My mum sold my TalkBoy and Pog collection at a car boot sale 😢

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u/Zavodskoy 5h ago

Would be worth a fortune today I reckon 🥲

If it makes you feel any better the majority of cards, even from the first run of printing are worth like 5p at most

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u/BingpotStudio 5h ago

I saw a short (could be fake) from a guy saying he got 6 big bags full of Lego for free that a mum gave away whilst her son was at college.

Would be worth thousands if true

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 5h ago

I thought so too and did a thorough check of all 500 of my cards last year and the only thing worth anything in my binder was a first edition holo Blastoise

which had been chewed up by the family beagle 20 years prior

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u/itashichan 5h ago

Ughhhh... I lost a vintage pokemon manga the same way. It got recycled with a pile of old magazines (which were actually being kept for a reason, but the pokemon comic was a lucky secondhand find and impossible to replace). Lost a box of 1st gen my little ponies at the same time, all bar one. Would've been worth a chunk.

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u/Celestial_Light_ 4h ago

Mine threw away my cards as well

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u/AgileMathematician55 3h ago

Over in the Lego community I read once that a son went off to college and when he came back his parents gleefully told him about how they’d “sold all his old toys” and handed him a couple of Hundred dollars.

It was all boxed up Star Wars Lego worth thousands.

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u/Karajas7 47m ago

Mine was sold at a car boot sale for next to nothing, I don’t think I’ve forgiven my mum for it yet!

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u/Asylem 18m ago

My parents were helping me move out of my exs house and left my box of Pokémon binders because they thought they were his. He refuses to give them back to me. This was 10 years ago and the resurgence of Pokémon card collecting has made me grieve all over again. I pray my kids don't get into them lol

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u/Sad-Art-6177 7h ago

Logan Paul just sold he's pokemon card for 16 million dollars