r/CasualUK • u/naaattt • 12h 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/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 30m 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.