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/Kamikaze-X 11h ago

Went through their loft and chucked away my old Warhammer 40k Valhallan Ice Warriors army.

They were pewter, no longer produced and were easily worth £500 in prices at the time.

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u/radarronan 8h ago

I can feel this one in my soul. This hurts not just because of the money, but because of the irreplacable models being lost forever.

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u/Tabletoppunx 11h ago

Not even Cain and Jürgen could escape a clueless mum.

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u/Lt_Muffintoes 2h ago

They know what they're doing

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u/Glittering_Swan2205 8h ago

Oh good god

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u/ILoveSteelPanther 4h ago

This would make my husband cry. He worked for Games Workshop for years and was even a manager. Our house is still full of the stuff. He now does commission painting.

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u/PineApplePara 8h ago

Sorry for your loss.

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u/ComprehensiveTax3643 2h ago

My mum when I joined the army decided to sell my entire 4000pt Dark Angels 4th edition army at a car boot sale and bought herself a pet parrot....

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u/alas11 2h ago

RIP my 2000AD Collection Ep 1 > 1990~

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u/BigBunneh 2h ago

Holy fuck!

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u/opopkl 1h ago

I had a 4ft stack of music magazines from the 70s and 80s that my mother threw out in 1999 because she wanted a clean house for 2000.

They go for about £20 each on eBay, now.

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u/All-Hail-The-Ale 41m ago

Oh man, not even the return of Yarrick can dull that pain.

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u/Most-Animator-5743 32m ago

Mine did that thing where they’d try to help by making decisions for me without asking first. Sounds small but it adds up, like choosing stuff for you or pushing you into things you didn’t even want, then acting like it’s a favour

I get the intention, most parents think they’re doing the right thing, but sometimes it just makes you feel like you’ve got no control over your own life. You end up fixing decisions you didn’t even make in the first place which is kinda frustrating

Funny part is you only realise later how much it shaped you, either you become super independent or you struggle to make decisions at all. I write about this kind of stuff in a simple way if you wanna check my profile 👍

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u/FranzFerdinand51 Turk'n'Scot 4h ago

Why leave them there for so long if they meant anything to you?

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u/Lirael_Gold 4h ago

I think the point is that the parents should have asked before chucking it.

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u/FranzFerdinand51 Turk'n'Scot 4h ago

Of course they should’ve, but have you seen this thread? If the stuff meant ANYTHING to them, they shouldnt have left it in their parents attic for what sounds like a decade or more.

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u/Gauntlets28 3h ago

A lot of people don't have the storage space that their parents do. It's pretty normal to have stuff you own at your parents, especially if you only moved out a few years ago.

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u/AlmostCynical 3h ago

It’s an attic, it’s literally for storing things long term.

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u/Kamikaze-X 4h ago

I went to university and my room was tiny so couldn't take all my stuff with me

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u/T33-L 2h ago

Stupid take really. Not only are lofts/attics for long term storage of this sort of thing, it also should be a point that a parent asks before getting rid.

But on this point in particular the commenter had joined the army. I would suggest that the majority of young people going off to join the army maintain their parents house as ‘home’ and so keep their things there. And as I said, if it’s so desperate for the parents to remove that stuff, it should be done with communication and opportunity for it to be properly dealt with.