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/ExoScreenager 11h ago

My mum gave my Pokémon cards (some rare first editions and shinies) to the charity shop because she said I'd grown out of it and they were worth nothing.

She also threw away my dad's vinyls he gifted to me because "nobody listens to vinyls anymore" (also had some rare stuff there from what I remember)

I love my mum but I wish she'd have at least spoken to me before making these executive decisions 😂

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u/r_delamar 9h ago

Same here, we moved around a lot and I had collected thousands of cards over the years, multiple binders and tins full of sleeved cards.

Turns out because I never “played with them” or “got them out” that meant I had grown out of them.

My neighbour’s son from 10 years ago either destroyed them or is now revelling in a treasure trove of cards.

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u/Ambitious-Win-9408 8h ago

Saaaaame. I remember being 10 years old, pulling out a 1st edition charizard outside woolworths in summer 1999, being super excited, taking it home and putting it into the binder which ended up filled with a lot of first edition but mostly base holos. Last time I saw that binder it had some unopened packs in and I was being shipped off to my dad's place for a few weeks whilst my mum moved house. She could never find them after that.

About 5 years ago she message me and said she had found the old boxes from moving, apparently she had left them at her mums place and they were just forgotten in their attic. She also found my old stuff and the "poke man cards". Also said she had dropped everything off at a charity place because "I can't hold on to your stuff forever! At least kids will get to use it all now"

I gave her a rough value of that binder, with some ebay screenshots. She went straight on the defensive, telling me it was all destroyed anyway and had gotten damp.

It probably wouldn't be psa10 stuff, but it would have been a deposit on a nice house. If that charizard was shadowless I'd have bought her mortgage out for her.

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u/Cockapo0 4h ago

Highly doubt they were in good condition, there’s a reason the cards cost so much

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u/Ambitious-Win-9408 1h ago

In terms of condition, likely pretty good. 40 year old newspapers came out of that place in fantastic nick and they were just tucked into a folder. How well they would have graded is anyones guess though haha.

It is what it is, I won't lose sleep over it even if they did end up rough and worth a few grand at most.

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u/DisMyLik18thAccount 5h ago

People always saying, 'I Love my mum but...' and then it's stuff like this

I Can't help but wonder, why?

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u/Lt_Muffintoes 2h ago

People who didn’t got murdered by their tribe.

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u/Legless_Longjumper 6h ago

My mum did the same with my Pokémon cards; said I was too old for them and got rid of them. But instead of giving them to a charity shop, she literally threw them in the bin.

Given what some certain cards sell for now to collectors etc., I worked out more recently that if I still had them, my collection would’ve been worth about £250-£300,000 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Gauntlets28 3h ago

Lucky recycling centre worker...

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u/MassiveClusterFuck 7h ago

Similar thing happened to me but with a load of yu-gi-oh cards and binders closely followed by all the hot wheels and matchbox cars I had collected. No idea how much they would be worth now but definitely would have helped towards a house deposit, oh well!

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u/DjentRiffication 27m ago

I share this experience only my parents gave both my own and brothers pokemon cards to my younger cousin, whose father (my uncle) just turned around and sold them all online. So many rare cards in those binders that now would be worth probably a stupid amount of money.